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Journal: Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies

“You Should Describe Things as if You’ve Seen Them for the First Time.” Michał Książek’s Linguistic Expressions of Animals and Human-Animal Relations

Dorota Miller

Language: PL | Published: 30-12-2021 | Abstract | pp. 1-22

The main objective of this paper is to pinpoint the possible linguistic expressions of animals and human-animal relations. The analysis is based on two publications documenting the growing interest of literature in environmental issues: Michał Książek’s “Droga 816” (2015) and “Północny wschód” (2017). They represent the so-called ‘nature writing’: a well-established literary tradition in the Anglo-American literature, little-known in Polish literary landscape.

2021-12-30



Journal: Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies

A Caring Steward, Bee Work, and Order as a Process in Jakub Kazimierz Haur’s General Gentry Economy (1675)

Andrzej Tadeusz Staniszewski

Language: PL | Published: 24-09-2025 | Abstract | pp. 1-12

This article analyzes a passage from the seven­teenth-century agronomic treatise General Gentry Economy (1675) by Jakub Kazimierz Haur, in which the author offers a brief praise of the beehive as a model of a well-organized estate. Although at first glance the passage may appear to be a conventional reiteration of familiar observations about the cultural significance of the bee in early modern literature and thought, situating it within the broader context of the treatise reveals its function as a conceptual tool for articulating Haur’s views on the role of the steward, the nature of his labor, and the place of animals in political imagination.

2025-09-24