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The paper discusses a recently completed critical edition of Jan Kochanowski's Fraszki (Trifles), which will before long be issued as a subsequent volume of his Dzieła wszystkie (Collected Works). Different aspects of the publication are presented, including facsimile, transcription, and commentary. As a representative sample, a few actual passages from particular trifles are discussed in length. These include the following poems: I 48, I 55, I 78, II 55, III 1, III 39, III 46, III 53, III 63, and III 69. The most remarkable added value of the edition is that it contains countless minute discoveries--individually marginal-- creating much broader, much richer, and much deeper picture of Trifles than the previous editions might suggest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the thematic structure in the issues of the scholarly journal Second Texts, in 1990–2012, using the topic modeling methodology. Based on 1923 articles from this period, the authors obtained and interpreted 120 automatically inferred topics from subsequent issues. The analysis allowed for the identification of permanent and seasonal topics, which appeared with a growing or declining frequency over time. The application of quantitative methods enabled the authors to capture the history of the discipline not so much as a series of distinct phases but rather as a continuous process built from different configurations of co-existing research interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]