Browsing by Author "Sadowski, Piotr"
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Androgyny and (near) perfect marriage : a systems view of the genders of Leopold and Molly Bloom
Sadowski, Piotr (Northern Illinois University, 2010)The essay seeks to analyse the nature of the marital relations between Leopold and Molly Bloom from Joyce’s Ulysses in the light of the spouses’ respective psychological genders. The analysis is underpinned by systems ... -
Dynamism of character in Shakespeare's mature tragedies
Sadowski, Piotr (Associated University Presses, 2003)Dynamism of character in Shakespeare's mature tragedies applies the systems theory of character to the analysis of the psychological and dramatic consistence of the main characters from Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. -
From interaction to symbol : a systems view of the evolution of signs and communication
Sadowski, Piotr (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009)Sadowski's book offers a comprehensive model of communication based on deductive formulations of systems theory supported by evolutionary thinking. The systems model generates the following types of communication: direct, ... -
Gender and literature : a systems study
Sadowski, Piotr (University Press of America, Inc., 2001)A Systems Study addresses the notion of gender as a "social construct," and presents evolutionary reasons for human psycho-behavioural differentiation along the lines of sexual dimorphism of the reproductive and the related ... -
‘A god / good kissing carrion’ : Hamlet II.ii.181
Sadowski, Piotr (Regents of the University of Colorado, 2001)During his first public appearance as a ‘madman ,’ Hamlet treats the importunate Polonius with a number of equivocations, saying among other things what in most editions of the play is rendered as: ‘For if the sun breed ... -
In the kingdom of shadows: Arthur Robison’s Schatten (1923) and the iconic indexicality of cinema
Sadowski, Piotr (Dublin Business School, 2017) -
The knight on his quest : symbolic patterns of transition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sadowski, Piotr (Associated University Presses, 1996)This book offers an integrated interpretative analysis of the major thematic aspects of the English fourteenth-century romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The chief aim of author Piotr Sadowski is to look at the ... -
Light, shadow, and smoke—Friedrich W. Murnau’s Faust (1926), the swan song of cinematic Expressionism
Sadowski, Piotr (Dublin Business School, 2015)Friedrich W. Murnau’s silent film version from 1926 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s play Faust was designed to showcase two of Germany’s most famous cultural exports at the time: the country’s Romantic legacy and cinematic ... -
Literature as interaction : a systems model of literary composition and reception
Sadowski, Piotr (Konstanta Publishers, 2000)can it be reduced to a selected element or types of elements. For example, a reduction of literary meaning to a single factor: be it the socio -economic conditions in which the text is produced (as in Marxist criticism), ... -
Once a Villain Always a Villain: Edmund’s “Reformation” in King Lear, 5.3.241-42
Sadowski, Piotr (SAHKartell, 2015)The article examines possible motives behind the alleged change of heart shown by Edmund at the end of King Lear when, defeated by his brother Edgar, he decides to revoke his former order to execute Lear and Cordelia. ... -
Psychological configurations and literary characters : a systems view
Sadowski, Piotr (De Gruyter, 2000)The object of the present paper is to apply concepts and models of systems theory (Mazur, 1966, 1976) to generate statements and definitions relevant to the human psyche in general and to the characters described in literary ... -
Shakespeare’s most toxic play—poison as weapon and metaphor in Hamlet
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The Sound-Symbolic Quality of Word-Initial Gr-Cluster in Middle English Alliterative Verse
Sadowski, Piotr (The Modern Language Society of Helsinki, 2001)Sound symbolism or linguistic iconicity, is based on the assumption that language contains instances of a natural, imitative, non-arbitrary connection between the form of the linguistic sign and its meaning. At the same ... -
Spenser’s 'golden squire' and the 'golden Meane': numbers and proportions in Book II of the Faerie Queene
Sadowski, Piotr (AMS Press Inc, 2000)The essay interprets Spenser's arithmetical and geometrical metaphors of temperance in their primary, mathematical sense, and argues that the 'golden squire' used to measure out a 'mean' of temperance refers to the ... -
A systems model of the evolution of literary paradigms
Sadowski, Piotr (De Gruyter, 2002)The paper applies a cybernetic theory of the dynamism of systems to create a model of the evolution of literary paradigms in a macro-historical perspective, that is, from the hypothetical beginnings of literature up to the ... -
Systems theory as an approach to the study of literature : origins and functions of literature
Sadowski, Piotr (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999)This text offers an alternative account of literary reception as communications-based. It seeks an alternative to post-Saussurean theories of language and discourse. The author makes a case for literature as a form of ... -
Towards a cognitive definition of photographic media
Sadowski, Piotr (Dublin Business School, 2019) -
Towards systems semiotics: some remarks and (hopefully useful) definitions
Sadowski, Piotr (SemiotiX New Series, 2010-03)Investigations into semiotic theory typically begin with the fundamental question: what is a sign? A definition is then offered, usually quoted from an established authority (such as C. S. Peirce), to get the argument ... -
What is literature? A systems definition.
Sadowski, Piotr (De Gruyter, 1999)One of the main methodological problems in any academic inquiry is that of definition. Defining things, processes, and phenomena is unavoidable because one has to identify and describe, however generally, the object of ...