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Stanisaw Przybyszewski - Writer And Aesthetician

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 This volume brings together several studies on the writings of Stanisaw Przybyszewski (1868-1927), one of the most important writers of Young Poland. The book also includes a supplement on the poetry of Zofia Wojnarowska. All the co-authors of the volume have explored Przybyszewski's work from different perspectives, placing it in many cultural contexts. Among the themes explored are the novel Children of Satan, the drama The Guests, Karol Irzykowski's statements about Przybyszewski, the opposition between bohemianism and dandyism (exemplified by Przybyszewski and Roman Jaworski), and Przybyszewski's views on Pozna culture. Przybyszewski was a writer appreciated in Germany and Scandinavia. He quickly became a leader of the Polish artistic avant-garde. In his works he dealt with the most important problems of modern culture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The studies collected in this monograph show various aspects of his writing, which combined Polish and European perspectives.
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Somatopoetics - Affects - Imaginations - Literature Of The 20th And 21st Centuries

by Anna Ebkowska

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 The book stems from the belief that scholars should actively engage with the areas of humanities significantly captured in the literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Somatopoetics - Affects - Imaginations - Literature Of The 20th And 21st Centuries

by Anna Ebkowska

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 The book stems from the belief that scholars should actively engage with the areas of humanities significantly captured in the literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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A New History Of Latvian Literature - The Long Nineteenth Century

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 This volume is the outcome of a co-ordinated effort of a group of scholars who set themselves the task of reconsidering nineteenth-century Latvian literary history. We are seeking to pluralize literary history studies by looking for novel insights into Latvian literature and contributing to the research of East-Central European literary cultures. Scholars from diverse but related research fields (literature, history, art history, and folklore studies) scan the nineteenth-century cultural scene from various intersecting perspectives, taking into account important links between literature, oral culture and visual art, changes in reading practices, periodicals, and the book market as well as the complex interactions between social transformations and aesthetic developments.
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After The Fall - On The Writings Of Czesaw Miosz

by Tomasz Garbol

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 Tomasz Garbols book reconstructs Czesaw Mioszs poetic vision of the world after the Fall. The entry point to this approach is the conviction about the ambivalence of previous interpretations of Mioszs works, especially about his bipolar poetic worldview (his intellectual and existential division between pessimism and ecstasy) and his understanding of the consequences of the Fall (reversible or fatalistic). The book is a literary studies take on the relationship between literature and religion. The main direction is that Mioszs main need in art comes from his yearning for contact with the meaning of reality, which he seeks in the activity of poetic imagination.
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Uci Critical Theory And Contemporary Art Practice: Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Bruce Nauman, And Others - With A Prologue By Georges Van Den Abbeele

by Ewa Bobrowska

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 This book focuses on the collaboration of Derrida, Lyotard, Hillis Miller, and others at the Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine and on critical theory as a methodology for the analysis of contemporary American visual art of Nauman, Kosuth, Burden, Christo, Johns, Rauschenberg, and others. It also includes a Prologue by Georges van Den Abbeele.
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On An Electric Arc - Andrzej Bobkowski Writing

by Maciej Nowak

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 The book is a monograph on Andrzej Bobkowskiâ€™s writings, a Polish author, diarist, epistolograph, and essayist, most famous for his diary Wartime Notebooks: France 1940â€"1944. The monograph offers an insightful reading of the existential functions of writing, autobiographic strategies, and the axiological dimension of Bobkowskiâ€™s works.
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The Literature Of Polish Romanticism In Its European Contexts

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 The book contains essays on the heterogeneity of Polish Romantic literature and its links with Europes cultural heritage. The essays deal with, among other topics, the idea of beauty and truth, correspondences between the arts, the role of tradition and memory in the Romantic era, and the significance of mysticism and irony. The authors of the essays write about such seemingly distant issues as music and revolution in Chopins times, and travel to places as disparate as Siberia and Italy. Their thematically diverse reflections are linked by questions they pose about the romantic roots of todays Europe. The works of Mickiewicz and other Romantic poets discussed in this book thus clearly do not concern merely the past, but also speak to the present day, describing the experiences of everyday life in its various dimensions.
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Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol. 2: Artistic Practices

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 The book is focused on the concrete literary representations of misunderstanding. Although most case studies refer to Polish culture, the results of the presented research are relevant to broader cultural issues. The contributors explore misunderstanding as a purposeful artistic strategy.
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Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol.1: Cross-Cultural Translation

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 This book explores the covert and overt creative potentialof misunderstanding. Viewed from the authors perspective, misunderstanding proves an elementary and unavoidable aspect of linguistic and cultural communication that can have a surprisingly beneficial impact on social relations and concomitantly stimulate the emergence of new cultural forms. As the authors of the book prove, cross-cultural contact is definitely a dynamic and asymmetric process rather than a static and symmetric transfer of values from one culture to another.
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Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol.1: Cross-Cultural Translation

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 The book explores the creative potential of misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication. The concept is studied from the perspective of translation studies, literary and cultural history, sociology. Misunderstanding is viewed as an elementary and unavoidable component of any verbal and cultural communication and a factor in artistic creation.
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Romantic Memory - Studies From The Past And Present

by Krzysztof Trybu

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 The book focuses on cultural memory preserved in the Polish Romantic literature, and still present in Polish public life. It depicts the Romantic project of transforming history into memory in the poetic texts of Mickiewicz, Slowacki and Norwid (as well as Byron and other European Romantics).
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Clifford Geertzs Interpretive Anthropology - Between Text, Experience And Theory

by Katarzyna Majbroda

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 This book refers the voice of Polish anthropology in the Western debate on the Clifford GeertzÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s interpretive anthropology. This book will show how principle categories such as text, interpretation, thick description have been absorbed by anthropological discourse, which influence theories (epistemology) and research methods in anthropology.
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Stanislaw Przybyszewski - Writer And Aesthetician

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 The volume on the writings of Stanislaw Przybyszewski, one of the most important Polish modernists. It contains several studies exploring various perspectives of Przybyszewski's worldview and art in different cultural contexts.
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Among The Outsiders. - Studies In Scapegoat Figure Typologies

by Fretschel-Hojarski Andrzej

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 Following in the footsteps of Frazer, Freud, and Burke, RenÃ© Girard proposes a novel hermeneutics of scapegoating which not only gives voice to the victims in the face of unjust persecution, but likewise unmasks the generative function that belies its frequently lethal dÃ©nouement depicted in texts of persecution.
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Praxis. An Exercise In Engaging Cultural Studies

by Agata Skórzyska

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 The book is designed as a methodological exercise in cultural studies described as "engaging", which refers to a specific research approach requiring cooperation and the inclusion of individuals and communities in the research process, using a rich repertoire of humanistic traditions as a tool of social criticism. The key is to treat cultural studies as a workshop in which the researcher changes from a distant observer into a practical person a public intellectual and craftsman at the same time. The turn from engaged to engaging research methodologies described in the book is strongly rooted in the tradition of the philosophy of praxis and the theory of social practices, from Aristotle, through Marxist theories, to contemporary participatory action research. Today, however, the practical approach in the humanities takes on particular importance in the context of the so-called ontological turn. The book tries to answer the question whether cultural studies based on the category of practice has a chance to be a new form of critical thinking under the conditions of post-anthropocentric humanities.
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Photo-Graphemicality - Photography And Poetry At The Turn Of The 21st Century

by Barbara Englender

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 The publication deals with the changes that occurred in photography after the invention of digital techniques of image recording, and most of all, with their image in poetry after1989, based on Polish literature. The author argues for the use of new tools which make it possible to study the links between these two types of media.
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The Prose Poem As A (Non)Genre - A Polish Case Study

by Agnieszka Kluba

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 The book provides a comprehensive summary of the existing approaches to the prose poem and offers an original conception of it, remaining close to the poetic texts by following the intricate line of development of the prose poem, in Modern Polish and European literary history and literary genre theory.
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On An Electric Arc - Andrzej Bobkowski Writing

by Maciej Nowak

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 The book is a monograph on Andrzej Bobkowskiâ€™s writings, a Polish author, diarist, epistolograph, and essayist, most famous for his diary Wartime Notebooks: France 1940â€"1944. The monograph offers an insightful reading of the existential functions of writing, autobiographic strategies, and the axiological dimension of Bobkowskiâ€™s works.
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After The Fall - On The Writings Of Czeslaw Milosz

by Tomasz Garbol

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 The book reconstructs a poetic vision of the world after the Fall and describes Czeslaw Miloszâ€™s model of modernism, shaped by his intellectual and existential division between pessimism and ecstasy, yearning for contact with the meaning of reality, and faith in the power of poetic imagination.
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The Literature Of Polish Romanticism In Its European Contexts

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 The book shows the heterogeneity of Polish Romanticism, which is often unfairly narrowed in its reception abroad to the issue of nationality. The authors focus on the history of Poland and Russia in the nineteenth century, but also address aesthetic problems concerning the ideas of truth and beauty, irony and mysticism, and the role of tradition.
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Writers, Literature And Censorship In Poland. 1948â€“1958

by Kamila Budrowska

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 The book describes the system of communist censorship in Poland in the years 1948â€"1958, as well as its effects on the development of literature. It is based on archival sources in the form of documents created by the Central Censorship Office. It is the first literary studies work which takes up the subject in such broad and systematic terms.
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Psychoanalysis Â€“ The Promised Land? - The History Of Psychoanalysis In Poland 1900â€“1989. Part I. The Sturm Und Drang Period. Beginnings Of Psychoanalysis In The Polish Lands During The P

by Pawel Dybel

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 The book presents the birth of the psychoanalytical movement on Polish lands in the years 1900â€"1918, on the broad background of the assimilation processes of Polish Jews. The author points out that Freud's theory played the role of "the promised land", as it was associated with the idea of the establishment of a more just social order.
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The Worldview, The Trope, And The Critic - Critical Discourses On Miron Bialoszewski

by Piotr Sobolczyk

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 This book presents the rhetorical means of creating discourses about a writer. It shows the place of literature in culture and the workings of cultural memory. It offers a completely innovative approach and method. The author provides an exemplary study of the famous Polish modernist poet and writer Miron Bialoszewski.
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