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Uniwersytet Warszawski Wydział Neofilologii ACTA PHILOLOGICA 51 Warszawa 2017 Komisja Wydawnicza Wydziału Neofilologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego: dr hab. Anna Górajek (przewodnicząca) dr hab. Maria Błaszkiewicz dr hab. Agnieszka Piskorska dr Magdalena Roguska dr Małgorzata Sokołowicz dr hab. Judyta Zbierska-Mościcka Redakcja tomu: dr hab. Anna Górajek (redaktor naczelna) i dr hab. Judyta Zbierska-Mościcka (redaktor) we współpracy z dr hab. M. Błaszkiewicz, dr hab. A. Piskorską, dr M. Roguską i dr M. Sokołowicz oraz z dr H. Borkowską i dr hab. K. Kumor Adres redakcji: ul. Dobra 55 00-312 Warszawa Wydawca: Wydział Neofilologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego ISSN 0065-1524 Nakład: 100 egz. Strona internetowa: http://www.acta.neofilologia.uw.edu.pl Łamanie: Miłosz Mierzyński Dystrybucja: CHZ Ars Polona S. A. ul. Obrońców 25 03-933 Warszawa Tel. 22 509 86 43, fax 22 509 86 40 Druk i oprawa: Sowa – Druk na życzenie www.sowadruk.pl Tel. 22 431 81 40 Spis treści Beata Lipińska The Sign of the Hanged and the Battle-Fallen: Beasts of Battle in Old English Poetry ............................................................................... 7 Zoriana Lotut The Use of Blue in the Middle Ages and Beyond ............................................................. 19 Agnieszka Szwach “Doctor She”: Women Practicing Medicine in Renaissance England and The Representation in the Drama of Shakespeare .................................................... 29 Tomasz Jabłoński The Son of Two Fathers: Miltonic Satan as Heideggerian Dasein .................................. 39 Agata Krzysica Parallels between William Golding’s Rites of Passage and the Works of Joseph Conrad ...................................................................................... 47 Tobiasz Cwynar “Reported Missing”: a Preliminary Study of David Gascoyne’s Personas ..................... 59 Ewa Kowal The Centre, Peripheries, and Filth in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia ................................................................................ 71 Katarzyna Kociołek Punk Fashion as a Metaphor in 1980s Britain and Poland ............................................ 81 Anna Maria Tomczak Cookbook-Memoirs by Indian Diasporic Writers: Articulating Collective Identity and Bridging the Gap between the Private and the Public ............................. 91 Małgorzata Sokołowicz La Présentation des odalisques au sultan ? Les premières inspirations orientales d’Émile Friant .................................................................................................... 105 Kévin François « Le Roi au Masque d’Or » de Marcel Schwob à la lumière de la théorie du monomythe de Joseph Campbell ................................................................................. 115 Katarzyna Wójcik Du roman à l’écran : l’image de l’étranger dans Le Survenant (1945) de Germaine de Guèvremont et dans l’adaptation filmique d’Érik Canuel (2005)..... 127 Krisztián Benyovszky Benyovszky Móric mint populáris irodalmi hős ............................................................. 139 Anna Porczyk La città “bumeràn”. Sulle rappresentazioni di Napoli nell’opera di Erri De Luca ed Elena Ferrante ..................................................................................... 149 Zofia Grzesiak Talismán de Remedios Varo y Amuleto de Roberto Bolaño. Lectura simultánea .............................................................................................................. 159 Mika Hallila Retelling Salome : Asko Sahlberg’s Herodes ..................................................................... 171 Voyages belges. Formes du voyage dans les lettres belges de langue française (1970-2016) Judyta Zbierska-Mościcka Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 181 Marc Quaghebeur Dotremont et Pirotte. Quand le voyage devient l'écriture et la recherche de l'impossible ...................................................................................................................... 183 Joanna Pychowska Voyages en Italie de Nicole Malinconi et d’André Sempoux ......................................... 193 Ryszard Siwek Ailleurs est ici – l’école belge de l’étrange .......................................................................... 201 Agnieszka Kukuryk Voyageur, poète, peintre. Inspiration nordique dans la poésie logogrammatique de Christian Dotremont ..................................................................................................... 209 Przemysław Szczur L’exil comme fabrique des identités dans Un fou noir au pays des Blancs de Pie Tshibanda .................................................................................................................. 221 Agnieszka Kocik La « traversée » auto-bio-graphique d’Ivan Alechine (Oldies, 2012) ............................ 229 Laurent Demoulin Jean-Philippe Toussaint, le voyageur immobile ............................................................... 239 Renata Bizek-Tatara À la recherche du père, à la recherche de Bruxelles. Porte Louise de Christopher Gérard ........................................................................................................ 251 Aleksandra Komandera Le récit de voyage imaginaire. Une lecture géocritique de La Belle étoile de Xavier Deutsch .................................................................................. 259 Judyta Zbierska-Mościcka Voyage, paysage, écriture. Serge Delaive, le poète-voyageur entre la Meuse et le Mekong ............................................................................................... 269 Marie Giraud-Claude-Lafontaine Kenan Görgün, enfant de l’exil et repriseur d’histoires dans Anatolia Rhapsody ......... 279 Recenzenci tomu ................................................................................................................ 291 Beata Lipińska Uniwersytet Warszawski The Sign of the Hanged and the Battle-Fallen: Beasts of Battle in Old English Poetry Abstract: The beasts of battle theme includes the raven, the eagle, and the wolf, all of which are implied to feast on the corpses of warriors fallen in battle. The theme presents a metonymic link between the beasts of battle and death in both Old English and Old Norse literary traditions, which points at possible common roots, despite the noted differences in the use of the theme. Among the three animals, the raven appears not only on the battlefield, but in a broader context of death, namely accompanying the hanged and the drowned, while wolves and eagles present a direct link to not only death, but also the violence and brutality that accompanied battles. The tame hawk can be interpreted to stand in contrast to beasts of battle, as it leaves its owner before the fight, moving in the opposite direction to the wild beasts. Such encroachment on human territory was a threat to the anthropocentric distribution of power and was thus seen as an aberration, which was reflected in the de-humanisation of (human) enemies and the personification of the beasts of battle themselves. Keywords: Anglo-Saxons, animals, beasts of battle, eagles, ecocriticism, the Middle Ages, Old English, Old Norse, ravens, theme, Vikings, war, wolves. The theme of beasts of battle was employed or alluded to in numerous Anglo-Saxon po- etic texts and still continues to inspire the writers of modern fantasy (Neubauer 181–210). The reasons why the raven, the eagle, and the wolf appear in poetry in the battle con- text have been widely discussed by scholars. It has been suggested that the animal triad functions in Anglo-Saxon (and Old Norse) verse as part of a battle typescene in order to render a particular image and evoke a reaction based on the contemporary audience’s recognition of the trope. Another matter of consideration is the beasts’ trespassing on human domain, presenting a threat to the anthropocentric distribution of power. In eco- criticism, humanity is defined in part by its limits and what lies beyond those limits – the chaotic, animistic, non-human; what is ejected outside the borders of humanity becomes the inherently alien Other, which, when merely trespassing on familiar territory, ques- tions the status quo of human domination (Huggan et al. 5). Sarah Harlan-Haughey has applied this theory to the issue of attaining and maintaining power in the colonial reality of Anglo-Saxon Britain (24–31). The beasts of battle have also been treated as having symbolic meaning. If, how- ever, from this semiotic perspective they become signifiers, the question remains as to what exactly they signify. The aim of this paper is to present the different approaches to the beasts of battle in Old English poetry and, with reference to Old Norse literature and Germanic culture, propose a more nuanced account of the theme. In particular, while I show that the beasts convey the death and violence perpetrated by war, I stress the distinct significance of the members of the triad. The beasts come in a particular set, and they 8 Beata Lipińska share semantic kinship, whereby an allusion to the wolf is enough to hint at the identity of the previous owner of the feather described in Riddle 84, a raven: “[n]u min hord warað hiþende feond, / se þe ær wide bær wulfes gehleþan” (“a plundering enemy, he who once carried widely the wolf’s companion,” Rdl 84 28–29). Yet, upon closer inspection, ravens seem to be tied to death in a broader context, whereas wolves and eagles appear to be more closely associated