Hołda Małgorzata, dr

About

Dr Małgorzata Hołda
assistant professor

Małgorzata Hołda. PhD in British literature with a dissertation Between Liberal Humanism and Postmodernist Fun: The Fiction of Malcolm Bradbury (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń 2006). PhD in philosophy with distinction for her dissertation: Paul Ricoeur’s Concept of Subjectivity and the Postmodern Claim of the Death of the Subject (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow), published with Ignatianum University Press, 2018. Junior Associate Fellow of the International Institute for Hermeneutics in Freiburg since 2014. Academic visits at the University of Manchester, UK, and the University of Vienna, Austria. The reviewer of Philosophy Today, David Publishing Company, New York, USA, since 2016. She conducts interdisciplinary research in Anglophone literature and philosophy. Her published work explores topics within modern and postcolonial novel, philological and philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology and postmodern philosophy. Her most recent research concerns Virginia Woolf’s and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics of the beautiful, Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of l’homme capable, and subjectivity. Her publications foster an understanding of hermeneutics as a mode of being.

Publications

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3772-6297

Books

Paul Ricoeur’s Concept of Subjectivity and the Postmodern Claim of the Death of the Subject. Cracow: Ignatianum University Press, 2018, pp. 191.

Selected articles

“Can Forgetting be Constructive? The Hermeneutics of Memory, Forgiveness and Reconciliation.” Studia Christianae Philosophiae 55 (2019): p. 6-26.
“‘The Vane Sisters’ by Vladimir Nabokov and the Hermeneutics of Memory and Death.” Vladimir Nabokov and the Fictions of Memory. Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw 7 (2017): p. 37-49.
“Paul Ricoeur’s Subjectivity and the Postmodern Claim of the Death of the Subject.” Biblioteka Cyfrowa Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie, 2017, p. 205 (fragments). http://bc.upjp2.edu.pl/publication/4822
“The Other, the Irrevocability of Death and the Aporia of Mourning – the Hermeneutic Approach.” Theoria et Historia Scientiarium XIV (2017): p.151-66.
“The Demand of the Other in Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophical Hermeneutics.” Logos i Ethos 44 (2017): p. 71-88.
“Umiar, praca i jej owoc w społeczeństwach konsumpcyjnych.” Logos i Ethos 45 (2017): p. 53-68.
“The Intersections Between Paul Ricoeur’s Narrative Identity and Mikhail Bakhtin’s Polyphony of Speech.” Forum Philosophicum 21.2 (2016): p. 225-47.
“Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘A Family Supper’ – the Hermeneutics of Familiarity and Strangeness.” Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw 6 (2016): p. 13-28.
“The Hermeneutics of Conversation; Silence, Epiphany and the Irreducibility of Conversion.” Roczniki Humanistyczne LVI (2016): p. 157-68.
“Relatywizm moralny znakiem ponowoczesnej rzeczywistości.” Społeczeństwo ponowoczesne – Społeczeństwo ponowoczesności. Cracow: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UP JP II, 2016, p. 29-39.
“Evasion or/and Expiation – Telling/Reading Stories in A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro.” Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw 5 (2015): p. 41-52.
“At the Threshold of the Dark: Death, Guilt, Responsibility and the Question of Normalcy in Washington Irving’s ‘The Adventure of the German Student’ and A. E. Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ – an Attempt at a Deconstructive Approach.” Studia Anglica IV (2014): p. 19-28.
“Aporia of Time in Virginia Woolf‘s Mrs. Dalloway and ‘Kew Gardens’ in the Light of Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics.” Old Challenges and New Horizons in English and American Studies 9, Text-Meaning-Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture. Ed. Anna Walczuk and Władysław Witalisz. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2014, p. 169-78.
(with Dominika Goluńska). “The Need of Fairness in Group Consensus Reaching Process in a Fuzzy Environment.” Technical Transactions, Automatic Control Issue 1-AC 2.110 (2013): p. 29-38.
(with Dominika Goluńska). “Changing Attitude Patterns in Group Decision Making Process – a Socio-technological Approach.” Technical Transactions 1-AC/2012 25 (2012): p. 29-39.
“Unreliable Stories, Vacillating Borders and Impossible Possibilities – An Attempt At a Deconstructive Reading of Graham Swift’s Short Story ‘Seraglio.’” Scientific Journal of College of Management, Law and Languages of Siauliai Region, Lithuania (2008): p. 39-48.
“Acting and Being; Image/Identity Inversion in Angela Carter’s ‘Flesh and the Mirror’: Camouflage, Voyeurism, Exhibition. Discourses and Practices of Deception, Surveillance, Transparency and Exposure.” International Conference, 19-22 September, 2007, Ustroń, University of Silesia. Częstochowa: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Lingwistycznej, 2010, p. 117-23.
“Storytelling As Making Sense of the Past in Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love.” Polish Association For the Study of English Conference, PASE Papers 2007, University of Silesia Vol. 2, Studies in Culture and Literature. Katowice, 2007, pp. 128-138
“Rose Tremain’s ‘My Wife is A White Russian.’ Colours and Sounds, a Tale of Love or Loss?” Humanistic Dissertations VIII (2007): p. 143-48.
“The Façade Never Drops Off – Simulated Reality in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.” Humanistic Dissertations VI (2006): p. 89-100.
“Echoes and Voices: the Spectacle of a Lost Self – Beryl Bainbridge’s ‘Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie.’” Enjoying the Spectacle: Word, Image, Gesture. Torun: Nicolaus Copernicus University, 2006, p. 135-43.
“Emasculating the Masculine; Eulogizing the feminine – Malcolm Bradbury’s Rates of Exchange, The History Man and Composition.” International Conference S/HE… Embracing/Wrestling Genders: Cultural Spaces for a Redefinition of the Political, University of Bielsko-Biala, 24-25 October, 2005. Bielsko-Biala, 2005, p. 125-33.
“Whose Body Is This? Playing with the Body Politics in Malcolm Bradbury’s Composition and Miniature Golf.” Corporeal Inscriptions: Representations of the Body in Cultural and Literary Texts and Practices. Torun: Nicolaus Copernicus University, 2004, p. 61-71
“Does the Author Have to Die? Author, Author by David Lodge. A Review Article.” Humanistic Dissertations III (2004): p. 83-86.
“Inny: hybrydyzacja w ‘Kursach wymiany’ Malcolma Bradbury’ego.” Humanistic Dissertations II (2004): p. 161-68.
“The Other or the Same: Identity Dilemma in Malcolm Bradbury’s Rates of Exchange.” English Studies XIII (2004): p. 96-105.
“‘To the Hermitage’ – Farewell to Literary Audience. Review article.” English Studies XIII (2004): p. 107-11.

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