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Imaginary worlds and dailiness scientific editors: Piotr Prósinowski Piotr Krzywdziński Scientific Council Evelyn Arizpe, University of Glasgow, Scotland Suad Mohammad Babiker, Ahfad University For Women, Sudan Maria Czerepaniak-Walczak, Uniwersytet Szczeciński, Poland Maria Dudzikowa, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Poland Wiesław Jamrożek, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Poland Marek Konopczyński, Pedagogium Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Społecznych w Warszawie, Poland Roman Leppert, Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy, Poland Mieczysław Malewski, Dolnośląska Szkoła Wyższa, Poland Jan Masschelein, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Peter Mayo, University of Malta, Malta André Elias Mazawi, University of British Columbia, Canada Lech Mokrzecki, Uniwersytet Gdański, Poland Bolesław Niemierko, Uniwersytet Gdański, Poland Joanna Rutkowiak, Uniwersytet Gdański, Poland Tomasz Szkudlarek, Uniwersytet Gdański, Poland Bogusław Śliwerski, Chrześcijańska Akademia Teologiczna, Poland Wiesław Theiss, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland Patricia Thomson, University of Nottingham, Great Britain Jan Żebrowski, Uniwersytet Gdański, Poland Editorial Board Małgorzata Cackowska (editor-in-chief), Piotr Prósinowski (secretary), subject editors: Radosław Breska, Maria Groenwald, Alicja Jurgiel-Aleksander, Lucyna Kopciewicz, Małgorzata Lewartowska-Zychowicz, Justyna Siemionow, Sylwester Zielka, Piotr Bauć (statistical editor), Michał Daszkiewicz (English language editor) Peer-reviewed journal Zdzisław Aleksander, Ateneum – Szkoła Wyższa w Gdańsku Tatiana Maciejewska, Uniwersytet Zielonogórski Joanna Ostrouch-Kamińska, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie Mirosław A. Patalon, Akademia Pomorska w Słupsku Ewa Rodziewicz, Akademia Marynarki Wojennej w Gdyni Magdalena Stoch, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN w Krakowie Barbara Wiśniewska-Paź, Uniwersytet Wrocławski Edyta Zierkiewicz, Uniwersytet Wrocławski English translation Anna Moroz-Darska Design of the cover page and title pages Grażka Lange Editor for the Gdańsk University Press Natalia Maliszewska Typesetting and page layout Stanisław Danecki Tłumaczenie sfinansowano ze środków Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego na podstawie umo- wy nr 661/P-DUN/2018 z dnia 13 lipca 2018 roku w ramach realizacji zadania 1 – stworzenie anglojęzycz- nych wersji wydawanych publikacji w 2019 roku. The translation was financed with funds made available by the Ministry of Finance and Higher Education under contract No. 661/P-DUN/2018 of 13 July 2018 as a part of the execution of task 1: the creation of English-language versions of the issued publications in 2019. © Copyright by Uniwersytet Gdański Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego ISSN 2083-0947 / ISSN (ONLINE) 2657-6058 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego ul. Armii Krajowej 119/121, 81-824 Sopot tel./fax 58 523 11 37, tel. 725 991 206 e-mail: [email protected] www.wyd.ug.edu.pl Księgarnia internetowa: www.kiw.ug.edu.pl Contents Piotr Prósinowski, Piotr Krzywdziński Introduction ................................................................................................................ 5 ARTICLES AND STUDIES Artur Jabłoński (Pomeranian Academy in Słupsk) Functions of Kashubian literature, its educational potential and the use of electronic media for its promotion ............................................ 11 Anna Mojsiewicz (University of Gdansk) The Alien as the Other: Various Images of the Alien in Science Fiction Literature ................................................................................... 21 Bartosz Murawski (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities) Marvel Makes Films. The Shared Universe as a New Trend in Hollywood Cinema ............................................................................................. 31 Joanna Pacewicz-Biegańska (University of Gdansk) Pornography as an Imaginary World of Female and Male Sexuality .............. 41 Maria Woźniak (University of Warsaw) Constructs of Sexuality in the Context of Imaginary Worlds ........................... 51 Paulina Urbańczyk (University of Gdansk) Creative Stories of the Night. Neglected Dreams .............................................. 59 Piotr Prósinowski, Piotr Krzywdziński (University of Gdansk) Oneiric incarnations: The construction of dreams in selected video games ......................................................................................................................... 71 Małgorzata Siupik (Information Technology Schools Complex in Slupsk) My favourite characters. Images of girls and boys in children’s literature. A pedagogical gender study .................................................................................. 83 Martyna Weilandt (University of Gdansk) The Imaginary World in the Fan–Music Idol Relationship. Selected Contexts of Contemporary Values of Pop Culture ............................................ 99 Tomasz Lesicki (Medical University of Gdansk) Ritual process and the imaginary world at music festivals ............................. 109 Ewa Kubicka (University of Gdansk) Social visions of skinhead subculture members ............................................... 121 Ars Educandi 12/2015 ISSN 2083-0947 / ISSN (ONLINE) 2657-6058 Introduction The twelfth volume of Ars Educandi is devoted to imaginary worlds. Many of us associate the imaginary with something unreal, sometimes insignificant or trifling. The imaginary is contrasted with the “here and now”, the daily and the significant. The texts collected in this volume offer a different look at the imaginary world. In his introduction to the book Socjologia światów wyobrażonych: fantastyka, gra, rekonstrukcja jako obszary transgresji [Sociology of Imaginary Worlds: Fantasy, Games, Reconstructions as Areas of Transgression], Arkadiusz Peisert points out that “society is an imaginary construct, but one to which we refer in our attitudes, choices, and behaviours” (Adamski, Krzywdziński et al. 2015: 11). We live sur- rounded by a variety of fictions – we are in contact with literature, video games, and advertising. But this is not solely about the media. The imaginary also applies to many other issues, such as social expectations, stereotypes, and – what is impor- tant in particular for pedagogues – education (both formal and informal). Through contact with fiction, we may distance ourselves from our own expe- rience or the current reality. This lets us tidy up our experiences, allows a creative reflection on them, and, finally, equips us with tools of critical thinking about the existing status quo (Rodziewicz 2011: 19). The imaginary is an intellectual spring- board which introduces a new perspective into one’s life – and as such is worthy of the attention of the representatives of the social sciences. Various fictions ac- company our life, becoming – often unnoticeably – an important element of our social life. Novels, films or video games are not only a form of entertainment or artistic expression, but also a way in which the society pictures imaginaries of itself – diag noses its problems, anxieties, and hopes. Different imaginary worlds may also serve as an important tool for critical analysis of the surrounding reality, a manner of designing new ideas and solutions. In true Gdansk pedagogical tradition, reflection on the issue of fiction has its source in Romana Miller’s works (Rodziewicz 2011: 13). In her article Wychowa nie przez świat fikcyjny dla świata rzeczywistego [Upbringing through the Fictitious World for the Real World], the researcher highlighted the significance of the prob- lems and indirectly signalled their vitalness not only from the point of view of pedagogy, but also sociology, psychology, and anthropology. Interpretative pos- sibilities do not end at this point, however. It can be easily demonstrated that the experience of stepping beyond our reality impacts almost every area of human life: from daily matters to extensive historical and political processes. The researcher’s reflection has its continuators. In December 2006, on the occa- sion of Professor Romana Miller’s one hundredth birthday, a scientific conference 6 Introduction Upbringing through the Fictitious World for the Real World was held at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Gdansk. It was an opportunity to meet scholars interested in the problems of fiction and the imaginaries, as well as to recall Gdansk research traditions in this scope. We believe that our publication makes a creative contribution to this current of reflection, developing the direction of studies and research set out by Romana Miller and her continuators. This volume has also been directly inspired by another event: the first scien- tific conference Imaginary Worlds and Social Sciences held at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Gdansk on 12 May 2015. The texts collected herein are the product of this event and result from the reflections of its participants – researchers. The very event was to constitute an impulse for a reconceptualization of the notion of the imaginary worlds and for an extension of the perspectives of their examination. In consistence with these expectations, the speeches had the char- acter of interdisciplinary invitations to pursue research and analyses, to extend one’s research fields. They represented various methodological and disciplinary traditions, and they discussed different threads pertaining to collective, cultural, and artistic life, the junction of science and fiction, as well as the phenomena of broadly understood narration.