Fascicle 1: Polish Literature

The theme of issue 2026: Images of War in Literature – Contemporary and Traditional

Guest editor: Prof. Dr. Habil. Stanisław Buryła, University of Warsaw

The Editorial Board of Roczniki Humanistyczne (Annals of Arts), Fascicle 1: Polish Literature invites high-quality academic contributions for the forthcoming 2026 issue, titled Images of War in Literature – Contemporaneity and Tradition. While submissions are welcome on a wide range of topics, we especially encourage papers in the following areas:

• literary depictions of war as an experience shaping the identities of individuals and nations,
• the representation of war in literature and its transformations in the context of socio-cultural, ethical, and aesthetic changes,
• war literature and its portrayals of boundary or liminal experiences,
• the role of individual and collective memory in both fictional and non-fictional accounts of war,
• strategies for conveying the experience of war in literature, including non-fiction and testimonial works; the evolution of the concepts of witness and testimony,
• women’s war literature – representations of women in literary depictions of war,
• war as a theme in popular literature,
• the phenomenon of the popularity of post-apocalyptic narratives.

We also welcome historical-literary and interpretative analyses of specific authors, individual works, or motifs that align with the war theme of the announced volume. Interdisciplinary approaches that provide a multidimensional perspective on the specificity of literary representations of the war experience are particularly encouraged.

Only unpublished papers of high academic quality will be considered. We reserve the right to preselect submissions based on their relevance to the volume's theme and adherence to editorial standards.

Preferred languages: Polish, English.

Article length: up to 35 000 characters with spaces (including abstracts, key words, and bibliography)

Formatting: The Chicago Manual of Style 17^th ed. (the footnotes and bibliography system: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html)

Deadline for submission: 15 May, 2024.

Contributions should be submitted via our Open Journal System: https://czasopisma.tnkul.pl/index.php/rh/login

Address for correspondence:

Secretary Dr. Habil. Joanna Michalczuk joanna.michalczuk@kul.pl