„Inscription” special issue (2025)

Inscription. An Anthology 3

Special issue of the academic journal Inscription. An Anthology 3 is a selection of the best articles selected from the last five issues of the academic yearbook Napis [Inscription]. Their main theme is the issue of memory, preserved through texts and images/photographs, which allow us to, among other things, explore the past, record emotions, communicate with ourselves and others using established cultural codes, and, finally, verify biographical information. For instance, the photographic record holds not only a sentimental value (it preserves memories) but also a factual value (it provides visual evidence).

In the introduction, these issues are briefly discussed using specific articles as examples. These texts are devoted to such problems as: the role of photography in the popular scientific narrative on the Cosmos; of the romantic culture of memory, as well as a case of self-communication exemplified by Cyprian Norwid’s floristic-verbal note; passionate thinking as the basis for Stefan Żeromski’s creation of his own textual space of intimacy in his journals; the importance of bibliographical works based on archival research and reliable criticism of sources (case of Janusz Korczak’s biography); the various roles of of photographic portraits in Polish cinema and analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of a modern editing tool in a case study of using AI to automatically generate transliteration of the 17th-century manuscript of Wacław Potocki’s Moralia.

This volume is financed by University of Warsaw (programme: Excellence Initiative –Research University) and Creativity Support Fund of Society of Authors ZAiKS.

Introduction. Preserving memory – the truth of text and the truth of image

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Reconnaissance, familiarising, incorporation – the place of photography in the popular scientific narrative and the plans for space domination at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century

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Fragile presence. On the floristic-verbal note of Cyprian Norwid’s ‘Book of Memorabilia’

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The Stefan Żeromski tropes (or traces) of passion

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Traces of forgotten identity. On the role of sources in the biography of Janusz Korczak

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Photographic portraits in Polish cinema: keepsakes, traces, props

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Scholarly editing in the face of technological progress illustrated with the example of Wacław Potocki’s Moralia

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