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PRELIMINARY RECOGNITION

Trees and forests – Contested Natures in Polish bookstores

(in the second decade of the 21st _{century) 3}

STUDIES AND SKETCHES

Dariusz Kulesza

From Drzewo [The Tree] to Zielone dzieci [Green children].

Wiesław Myśliwski and dendrological tropes in Polish literature after 1989 27

Iwona Gralewicz-Wolny

“I quoted sentences from inside trees”: minimum of Urszula Zajączkowska 43

Agnieszka Rydz

Miron Białoszewski’s botanical conceptualisations of memory 53

Katarzyna Sawicka-Mierzyńska

“The Białowieża Forest grows on human settlements” – trees and memory 70

Beata Mytych-Forajter

The organic whole in Brzezina [The Birch wood].

An ecocritical reinterpretation of the story by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz 90

Anna Szóstak

The dendrocentric world of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s late poetry 101

Maria Jolanta Olszewska

Stefan Żeromski: concepts of dendrological narratives.

Outline of the problem 119

Marcin Lul

Tree, man, and microbes in the laboratory of a novel. Historia kołka w płocie [The Story of the peg in the fence] by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski 141

Anna Kaczmarek-Wiśniewska

A diegetic “pre-structure” and the scenery of love consummation:

two images of a tree in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series 172

Ewa Serafin

From the Arolla pine-primeval mother to the apple tree-granddaughter. The family histories in Stanisław Vincenz’s Letters from Heaven 187

Monika Ładoń

The women’s tree. Matrilineality in Nieczułość [The Obduracy]

by Martyna Bunda 201

Ada Arendt

Xylotheques: evisceration of the forest 215

Bogumiła Staniów

Trees and forests in children’s calendar books on nature published

in the communist era in Poland 230

Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda

Trees in the Moral Epistles of Seneca the Philosopher 245

ACADEMIC JUVENILIA

“I unveil lands affluent in bark”. (Co)wood poetics

of Krystyna Miłobędzka 262

Karolina Wyciślik

The musical-literary motif of the lime tree in the fifth song from Winterreise by Franz Schubert and Wilhelm Müller’s Der Lindenbaum

translated by Stanisław Barańczak 270

Katarzyna Koza

The role of trees in Urszula Zajączkowska’s poetry seen through the lens

of ecopoetry 286

REPETITIONS

Gloria victis by Eliza Orzeszkowa 300

PARATEXTS AND REMARKS

On people and trees. The Overstory by Richard Powers. [Book review – Richard Powers, The Overstory,

William Heinmann, London 2018, pp. 502] 314

Marceli Olma

Anita Całek, Nowa teoria listu [The New theory of the letter]

[Book review – Anita Całek, Nowa teoria listu (The New theory of the letter), Biblioteka Jagiellońska – Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2019, pp. 452.] 321

Tomasz Pindel

Living in the zombie-centric time

[Book review – Ksenia Olkusz Narracje zombiecentryczne. Literatura – teoria – antropologia, TAiWPN Universitas, Kraków 2019, ss. 326

Book review – Festín de muertos. Antología de relatos mexicanos de zombis, red. Raquel Castro, Rafael Villegas, Océano, México DF 2017, ss. 176] 328

Magdalena Stoch

Conference proceedings – Współczesne strategie, narzędzia i metody badania mediów i literatury, Kraków, 3–4 December 2019 337

Patryk Szaj

More than forest at stake

[Book review – O jeden las za daleko. Demokracja, kapitalizm

i nieposłuszeństwo ekologiczne w Polsce (A Forest Too Far: Democracy, Capitalism and Ecological Disobedience in Poland), red. Przemysław Czapliński, Joanna B. Bednarek, Dawid Gostyński, Książka i Prasa,

Warszawa 2019, ss. 365] 342