The travelogue by Antoni Ferdynand Ossendowski, Man and Mystery in Asia. Through Wild Siberia (1898‑1905), written 1923 translated from English into French 1925, results a complex editorial history still awaits translation the Polish original. aim here is to shed some light on reasons for its success at first reception rediscovery since 1989 rise of censorship Poland: Why (re)read Asia? This bo...

In her recently published text Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils Ageing (2013) Lynne Segal argues that, in relation to ageing process “what essentially matters is neither sociology nor biology but narrative self, stories we tell ourselves” (Segal 2013, 9). Psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas, suggests that order achieve a functioning personal narrative, each individual requires perspectiva...

I In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad famously describes the colonisation of Central Africa as a “fantastic invasion” (Conrad 1995: 44, 58, 95), undertaken by heavily armed but fever-stricken hunters for ivory who are ultimately powerless against the unconquerable wilderness of the Dark Continent. To Conrad’s narrator-protagonist, the jungle and its denizens appear to be awaiting patiently the ...

As we train in medicine, we learn of Ghon complexes, Leriche syndrome, and Roux-en-Y abdominal operations, yet we know very little about the personalities behind these names. When did these scientists and doctors exist, and where did they live? Wander]ahr. The Education of a Surgeon, edited and annotated by J. Gordon Scannell, M.D., an emeritus Professor of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hosp...

Katsuya HIRANO (Assistant Professor, Cornell University), "Power, Parody, Kibyōshi" This presentation examines the political implications of parody enacted through the production and circulation of kibyōshi during the late eighteenth century in Tokugawa Japan. This particular moment marked an extensive, circular, and reciprocal influence between the cultures of subordinate and dominant classes....

Статья посвящена литературе о путешествиях в творчестве английского писателя-модерниста Д. Г. Лоуренса (1885–1930). Автор много путешествовал, результатом чего стало большое количество травелогов. Эта сторона его наследия представляется недостаточно исследованной. Цель статьи — изучить своеобразия травелога Лоуренса, обозначение ключевых тем и мотивов на примере книги путешествий «Море Сардиния...

It is a pleasure to dedicate this little travelogue/catalogue of exotic gravity models to John Stachel, whose loyalty to the D=4 Einstein cause is too steadfast to be subverted by reading it. Once unleashed by general relativity, dynamical geometry has become a fertile playground for generalization in many directions beyond Einstein’s D=4 Ricci-flat choice. This trend has intensified with strin...