Vol. 29 No. 2 (2021): Environmental Humanities I
Environmental Humanities I

Thus, in recent decades, humanistic thought has seen a shift from the human-centred perspective towards a totality of nature and culture. This movement reveals the multidimensionality of the natural world and the intricate connections between its elements, of which humans may or may not be a part. Consequently, researchers turn their attention to various research problems of environmental humanities, posthumanities, or environmental history, which depending on the subject matter, require proper analytical tools, including theuse of methods that encourage cross-disciplinary approaches, thus building a bridge between the humanities and the hard sciences.

This volume focuses on the global dimension of interactions taking place within different ecosystems, as well as on microrelationships, links between subjects living within socio-natural systems, and their cultural representations in literary texts or works of art. The authors ask about the limits of agency of different subjects living in the socio-natural environment, and about the conceptualization of the natural world two hundred years ago as compared to today. They often question the classical division between culture and nature and show how this questioning influences the development of the humanities and what new insights it brings to the understanding of the world around us.

Articles

Tomasz Sobieraj
21-40
A Breach in Anthropocentrism and Speciesism? Changes in Cultural Consciousness on the Example of the Relationship: Human – Non-human Animal Species in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.2
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Wojciech Hamerski
41-61
Romantic “Forges of Nature” from the Ecocritical Perspective
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.3
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Oliwia Gromadzka
Japanese Landscape in Polish Travel Writing in 1880s and 1890s
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.4
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Dariusz Piechota
79-96
Ecological Themes in the Prose of Modernists
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.5
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Sabina Brzozowska
97-116
Man – Animal – Thing in Władysław Reymont’s The Peasants
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.6
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Małgorzata Praczyk
117-133
A Contribution to the Environmental History of Aristocracy on the Example of Zofia Chomętowska
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.7
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Hanna Gosk
135-148
A Stick, a Sparrow, a Kettle. The Non-Human Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz: Between the Pre- and Meta-Pre-Posthumanistic Approach to the Problem: Between the Pre- and Meta-Pre-Posthumanist Approach to the Problem.
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.8
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Klára Kudlová
149-166
THE The Human and the Non-Human in Ze života hmyzu by the Brothers Čapek: Contexts, Scheme, Interpretation
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.9
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Katarzyna Niesporek
167-187
The Extermination of Animals and Men: On Tadeusz Śliwiak’s Poemat o miejskiej rzeźni
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.10
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Sabina Giergiel
189-202
“A River is not the Same as Soil, It will Accept Everything”: A Few Notes on the Environmental Conditions of the Holocaust in Serbia: Uwag kilka o przyrodniczych uwarunkowaniach Zagłady w Serbii
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.11
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Monika Żółkoś
203-216
Mass Extinction on Noah’s Ark
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.12
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Stephan Wolting
217-241
A New “Poetry of the Anthropocene”? An Attempted Continuation of “Nature Writing” in the Poetry Volumes by Marion Poschmann Nimbus (2020) and Esther Kinsky Schiefern (2020) Taking into Account Heidegger's Existential Ontological Approach: “Put the Being in the Right”
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.13
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Agnieszka Czyżak
243-255
“I Asked the Dog to Sniff at All my Birth-Marks”: The Child from Donations by Justyna Bargielska
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.14
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Beata Kubiak Ho-Chi
257-276
Posthumanistic Landscapes in the Prose of Hiromi Kawakami
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.15
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Beate Sommerfeld
277-293
“The Triumph of Vegetation is Total”: a Re-Reading of Michel Houellebecq’s La carte et le territoire from the Perspective of the Environmental Humanities
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.16
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Michał Witek
295-315
Anthropocenic After-life: Living Machines, Synthetic Biology and the End of Nature
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.17
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Małgorzata Mikołajczak
317-335
Winescape: Local Reinhabitation Narratives (The Case of Zielona Góra)
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.18
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Katarzyna Taborska
337-349
Emphasizing the Borderlands in a Future Central European Educational Programme
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.19
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Łucja Lange, Hanna Mamzer, Magdalena Gajewska
351-370
Explorations in the Search of Answers on Understanding Notion of Interspecies Relations
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.20
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Patryk Szaj
Anthropocene and Capitalocene: In Search of a Fusion of Horizons
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.21
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Daniel Kalinowski
389-409
Pomerania (Over)drawn: The Poetics of the Historic and the Local in the World of Comics
https://doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.2.22
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