Kultura zdeformowanych sensów
The Culture of Deformed Meanings

Summary/Abstract: Helman in her review of Małgorzata Flig’s book entitled "Mitotwórcza funkcja kina i literatury w kulturze stalinowskiej lat 30. XX wieku" ["Myth-making function of cinema and literature in the culture of the Stalinist era of the 1930s"] (2014) focuses on the way in which the relationship between myth and ideology is presented. This is a contentious and controversial issue in the literature on the subject. Flig presents it in a very convincing manner, starting from the premise that Soviet culture was not dominated by a single ideology. Consequently she analysed its relationship with the myth already present in the shared consciousness of the society and recognised as common sense. The reviewer also points out the interesting connection between the hagiographic pattern and the model of the socialist realistic discourse, as well as the analysis of the way reality was shaped by imposing the language of power.

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