Modernizmy Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Coraz szersze marginesy
Modernisms in Central-Eastern Europe. Wider Margins
Contributor(s): Ewa Paczoska (Editor), Izabela Poniatowska (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: modernism; Central-Eastern Europe; margins; literature; culture
Summary/Abstract: The articles collected in this volume show the experience of modernism in culture and literature of Central-Eastern Europe from different perspectives. The authors present how the modernist “community of questions” was formed in our region; they attempt to redefine the European “central” and “peripheral” places; they also explore such phenomena as popular literature and film and Lviv in Polish and Ukrainian culture.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-4723-5
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-4715-0
- Page Count: 394
- Publication Year: 2020
- Language: Polish
„Na (…) tym niebie omdlewającej, kończącej się Europy”. O możliwych źródłach środkowoeuropejskiej melancholii
„Na (…) tym niebie omdlewającej, kończącej się Europy”. O możliwych źródłach środkowoeuropejskiej melancholii
(“In (…) this sky of fainting, ending Europe”. On Possible Sources of Melancholy in Central Europe)
- Author(s):Łukasz Książyk
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:13-31
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:Central Europe; melancholy; Kundera; Brodsky; Gombrowicz
- Summary/Abstract:The article aims to show that the sources of Central European melancholy stem from the very indefinability of the notion of Central Europe. The author, reconstructing, among others, Joseph Brodsky’s polemic against Milan Kundera’s concept of Central Europe, formulated in the 1980s, attempts to prove that Central Europe, which, on the one hand, is “imaginary geography” and, on the other, in Gombrowicz’s words: “(a place) somewhere between the East and West, where Europe is killing itself, (…) where the East and West are weakening each other”, is a melancholic figure itself.
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„Chcemy wolności”. Pisma chorwackich modernistów
„Chcemy wolności”. Pisma chorwackich modernistów
(“We Want Liberty”. The Works of Croat Modernists)
- Author(s):Małgorzata Vrazić
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:33-57
- No. of Pages:25
- Keywords:Croat modernism; Zagreb; Austro-Hungarian Empire; generation revolt; periodical press
- Summary/Abstract:The article discusses the main trends in literary life in Croatia at the beginning of the 20th century, when the new generation feels the need to create art and literature. The author focuses on the specific nature of the local form of modernism, connected with political and artistic atmosphere of the region. The formation of Croat modernist ideas, aimed at the integration with new European trends, is shown on the example of such journals as: “Hrvatska misao”, “Mlada Hrvatska”, “Mladost”, “Hrvatski salon”, “Život”.
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Kilka spojrzeń na sprawy bałkańskie, czyli jak i po co w drugiej połowie XIX wieku czyta się Bałkany
Kilka spojrzeń na sprawy bałkańskie, czyli jak i po co w drugiej połowie XIX wieku czyta się Bałkany
(A Few Looks at Balkan Issues or How and Why The Balkans Are Read in the Second Half of the 19th Century)
- Author(s):Dawid Maria Osiński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:59-138
- No. of Pages:80
- Keywords:Balkans; Slavia; journey; literature of the second half of the 19th century; intimist writing; journalism
- Summary/Abstract:The study looks at the specific nature of reading the Balkans in the second half of the 19th century and harmonizes with the author’s text Towards Croatia, which was published in The Problems of Literature and Culture of Modernism in Central Europe (1867–1918), in Volume I, edited by E. Paczoska, I. Poniatowska, M. Chmurski, Warsaw 2017. In the article, the author shows why the understanding of Balkan issues in the second half of the 19th century, identified accurately by Krzysztof Stępnik and Monika Gabryś-Sławińska, as well as the Serbo-Croat questions and the interest in this geopolitical region are of such importance to Polish identity at the time. The author analyses: a memoir Three Months in Croatia. Reminiscences of A Journey in Austria and Hungary (as well as other examples of travel discourse showing Western interest in the Balkans); a several-episode critical review by Alexander Świętochowski, concerning two books on Serbia (here the author of the article also refers to other texts referring to Balkan issues); six letters from Bronisław Grabowski to Eliza Orzeszkowa: excerpts from Eliza Orzeszkowa’s letters to Teodor Tomasz Jeż; the correspondence between Wincenty Pol and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski; historical novels on Southern Slavia by Teodor Tomasz Jeż; The Doll by Bolesław Prus and his chronicles devoted to Balkan issues.
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Mieszkańcy masowej wyobraźni w Europie Środkowej w drugiej połowie XIX wieku
Mieszkańcy masowej wyobraźni w Europie Środkowej w drugiej połowie XIX wieku
(The Inhabitants of the Mass Imagination in Central Europe in the Second Half of the 19th Century)
- Author(s):Izabela Poniatowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:139-160
- No. of Pages:22
- Keywords:popular literature; Central Europe; Sherlock Holmes; Don Quixote; Faustus; Barbara Ubryk
- Summary/Abstract:Thanks to technological advances and the development of the media (the press, film and photography), in the second half of the 19th century, the world became smaller in a sense: cultural texts from different countries and continents started to interpenetrate. Not only were they translated (like Sherlock Holmes stories), but they were also adapted and travested to suit the readers they were addressed to, which was an important factor in the homogenisation of culture. This is how the heroes of mass imagination found themselves in Central Europe: Sherlock Holmes known here as “Szerlok”, Tarzan and “the invisible man” appeared in crime magazines and serial literature. The article attempts to describe how such mass imagination characters were adapted for Central European readers.
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(Nie)zwykły romans kryminalny? O pierwszych polskich powieściach kryminalnych
(Nie)zwykły romans kryminalny? O pierwszych polskich powieściach kryminalnych
(The (Un)usual Crime Romance? On the First Polish Crime Novels)
- Author(s):Izabela Poniatowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:161-186
- No. of Pages:26
- Keywords:crime fiction; Central Europe; criminal; modernism; popular literature
- Summary/Abstract:Crime fiction flourishes in the second half of the 19th century. The article focuses on the specific nature of Central European narratives on crimes, which were created in certain socio-political realities. The author, convinced that Central Europe developed a different model of crime fiction than Western Europe or America, attempts to prove it in the text. The differences arose from a distinct way of perceiving the authorities in this part of the continent and also from the fact that a criminal was often seen by the society as a romantic fighter for freedom and a rebel against the repressive system. It is worth mentioning that crime fiction is deeply rooted in the present. What also constitutes the specificity of Central European crime fiction is the attribution of roles, often contrary to the genre: a detective is not always a positive or the most intelligent character, a criminal happens to be more than a black character.
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Ruch „młodych kobiet”? Transnarodowy kobiecy modernizm w Europie Środkowej na przełomie XIX i XX wieku
Ruch „młodych kobiet”? Transnarodowy kobiecy modernizm w Europie Środkowej na przełomie XIX i XX wieku
(“Young Women’s” Movement? Transnational Female Modernism in Central Europe at the turn of the 19th and 20th century)
- Author(s):Lena Magnone
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:187-221
- No. of Pages:35
- Keywords:Central Europe; Habsburg Monarchy; women’s writing; modernism; transnational movement; youth movement; “new woman”
- Summary/Abstract:While the turn of the 19th and 20th century constituted throughout Central Europe a period of unprecedented participation of women in literary life, as well as the moment when – after rejecting the previous formula combining into one the categories of gender and nation – new themes and distinctive poetics appeared in the women’s writing, from the perspective of national literary histories the fin-de-siècle female authors have hardly ever mattered: despite the notable efforts of gender-oriented researchers in Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Croatia or Slovenia, local modernisms have all a ‘masculine face’. In this article, I propose to remove women modernists from national contexts and to perceive their works as a separate historical and literary phenomenon, with its own chronology and dynamics. At stake of this transnational approach is to restore a regional web, an overlooked network within the territory of the Habsburg monarchy, that I am inclined to tentatively qualify as ‘female Central European modernism’.
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Lwowski „Lamus” (1908–1913) w projektach autorskich Maryli Wolskiej i Michała Pawlikowskiego
Lwowski „Lamus” (1908–1913) w projektach autorskich Maryli Wolskiej i Michała Pawlikowskiego
(Lviv “Lamus” (1908–1913) in Authorial Projects of Maryla Wolska and Michał Pawlikowski)
- Author(s):Dominika Pękalska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:223-263
- No. of Pages:41
- Keywords:“Lamus”; Maryla Wolska; Michał Pawlikowski; history of Polish press; modernist Lviv
- Summary/Abstract:The article attempts to reflect on the programme of “Lamus” (1908–1913), a forgotten journal of Lviv modernism. The author looks at the concepts of the two equal authors of the programme: Michał Pawlikowski, who signed the journal, and Maryla Wolska, who was the unofficial editor. The basis for the analysis is the editorial to “Lamus” (printed in the journal and identical with its prospectus) and its archive sketch versions (available from Pawlikowski’s Home Archive). The aim of the research was not only exploring how the project had changed and how attractive it had been for Lviv artistic community, but also reading the journal in the footsteps of Maryla Wolska, who was until now omitted in the research on “Lamus”.
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Polsko-ukraińskie spotkania naukowe. Biblioteka ossolińska jako miejsce kształtowania się wielonarodowościowego środowiska twórczego Lwowa przełomu XIX i XX wieku
Polsko-ukraińskie spotkania naukowe. Biblioteka ossolińska jako miejsce kształtowania się wielonarodowościowego środowiska twórczego Lwowa
przełomu XIX i XX wieku
(Polish-Ukrainian Scientific Meetings. The Ossolineum Library as a Place for the Formation of Multinational Creative Environment in Lviv at the turn of the 19th and 20th Century)
- Author(s):Vira Neszew
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:265-285
- No. of Pages:21
- Keywords:Polish-Ukrainian relationships; Lviv; Ossolineum Library; University of Lviv; cultural community
- Summary/Abstract:In Galician Lviv at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, two most numerous nations living there, the Poles and the Ukrainians, concentrated on the development of their own science and culture. The key role was played by scientific and cultural institutions such as the University of Lviv, different associations, editorial offices, a theatre and the Ossolineum Library, founded by Count Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński at the beginning of the 19th century. This latter institution became (in political realities of that time) a place where, on the one hand, Polish science developed, and, on the other, Ukrainian culture was fostered. The activities undertaken by the Lviv Ossolineum at the turn of the century, confirm Polish-Ukrainian cultural community at the time, which stemmed not only from the creative environment common for both nations in the same city. The Ossolineum Library was a place, where the Poles and the Ukrainians contributed to the development of culture in multinational Lviv.
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Początki psychologii eksperymentalnej na Uniwersytecie Lwowskim a problem nowoczesnego widzenia
Początki psychologii eksperymentalnej na Uniwersytecie Lwowskim a problem nowoczesnego widzenia
(The Beginnings of Experimental Psychology at Lviv University and the Problem of Modern Vision)
- Author(s):Sylwia Borowska-Kazimiruk
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:287-306
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:vision modernizations; Kazimierz Twardowski; visual illusions; antipositivist turn; Warsaw-Lviv School
- Summary/Abstract:The article is concerned with the history of Polish experimental psychology as seen from the perspective of Kazimierz Twardowski’s work at Lviv University. One of the most important events, which initiated the introduction of this new scientific research into universities, was a lecture On Visual Illusions (1898/99) given by the future founder of the Warsaw-Lviv School. As the author proves,the seminar, most innovative at the time, devoted to illusions in everyday, individual cognition, not only opens a new chapter in Polish philosophy after the positivist turn, but also commences a local version of the history of vision, concerning a complex process of reconceptualization of modern percipient subjectivity.
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Ze Wschodu na Zachód: intelektualiści i pisarze żydowscy z Europy Wschodniej i ich niemieckie doświadczenie
Ze Wschodu na Zachód: intelektualiści i pisarze żydowscy z Europy Wschodniej i ich niemieckie doświadczenie
(From the West to the East: Intellectuals and Jewish Writers from Eastern Europe and Their German Experience. Jewish Literature)
- Author(s):Delphine Bechtel
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
- Page Range:307-355
- No. of Pages:49
- Keywords:Jews; Germans; Jewish migration; cultural life of Berlin; modernism; communism; Yiddish literature
- Summary/Abstract:The article focuses on cultural life of the Jews from the East in exile in Berlin during the interwar period. The author looks at migrations of Jewish intellectuals and their life in exile, paying particular attention to the relationships between newcomers and the Jews living in Germany for years. The second topic of the article is the portrayal of Jewish immigrants in Germany in Yiddish literature by authors such as Lejb Kwitko and Dawid Bergelson. The author is particularly interested in the confrontation between the migrants and the new world, as well as their search for their own identity.
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