Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

27.00 €

The Chopin games. The history of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition 1927–2015

Chopinowskie igrzysko. Historia Międzynarodowego Konkursu Pianistycznego im. Fryderyka Chopina 1927-2015

Author(s): Ada Arendt,Marcin Bogucki,Paweł Majewski,Kornelia Sobczak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Fryderyk Chopin; Chopin Competition; Martha Argerich; Krystian Zimerman; Ivo Pogorelić; cultural phenomenon; piano competition

The book presents the history of the Chopin Competition told from the perspective of anthropological and cultural studies, and based on extensive source material. Thanks to this, the authors were able to describe the so far little-known aspects of the history of the most important Polish music competition and one of the most important ones in the world.

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23.00 €

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

The University of Warsaw. History and Traditions

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek / Language(s): English

Keywords: University of Warsaw; history of the University of Warsaw; buildings of the University of Warsaw; Frederick Chopin

The author gives an account of the most important events covering two hundred years of the history of the University of Warsaw and introduces profiles of its rectors, outstanding professors and graduates, among them Fryderyk Chopin. The book can be read as an introduction to the University’s history, and as a guide to its historic monuments and collection of plaster casts, as well as the engravings and drawings housed in the University Library Print Room. The author discusses the achievements and heritage of the Faculty of Science and the Fine Arts, and also of the School of Fine Arts, which existed on the University campus in the years 1844-1862. He also focuses on the history of the University buildings, its emblem and other symbols as well as he describes University’s scientific and intellectual achievements in the context of Poland’s history. The book is complemented with the interesting appendixes referring to the Chopins’ apartment at the University Campus, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, founder of the Museum of the University of Warsaw, the collection of Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi (University of Warsaw deposit in the National Museum, Warsaw) and the University graduates who won the Nobel prize. The final part is the calendar of the University history. This book, richly illustrated with little-known materials, is addressed to a wide circle of readers.

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The Merchant of Venice

Kupiec wenecki

Author(s): William Shakespeare / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: William Shakespeare; new translation of Shakespeare's dramas; The Merchant of Venice

A play written by William Shakespeare, in a new translation by Piotr Kamiński. Critical edition with commentary.

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19.00 €

Talks About Glottodidactics

Rozmowy o glottodydaktyce

Author(s): / Language(s): French,Polish

Keywords: glottodidactics; French language teaching; communication; assessment; intercultural mediations

The publication raises the issues important for academic glottodidactics: cognition through a language, communication systems, evaluation and assessment rules, cultural mediation, philological studies and teacher training, which take the form of 13 interviews with well-known specialists in glottodidactics and philological education. The book dedicated to professor Jolanta Sujecka-Zając by her students is an example of multi-generational collaboration of Warsaw philologists.

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26.00 €

Under the Pressure of Modernity.The Authorities of the Duchy of Warsaw towards the Jews

Pod presją nowoczesności. Władze księstwa Warszawskiego wobec Żydów

Author(s): Aleksandra Oniszczuk / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Duchy of Warsaw; Jews; authorities of the Duchy of Warsaw and the Jews; modernisation; Napoleon

The book is the first attempt at a comprehensive description of the policy pursued by the authorities of the Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1815) towards the Jews. The Duchy was a state straddling two eras, torn between the feudal world and the 19th century’s dreams of progress. It introduced mechanism of modern management, but the old ideas and social attitudes were still very much alive. It is this tension between new regulation and old habits that is the subject of this book. Referring to a broad selection of sources, this work analyses the ongoing debates the adopted regulations as well as the everyday administrative practice, thus portraying the dynamic of the Duchy’s Jewish policy.

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The Tragedy of Macbeth

Makbet

Author(s): William Shakespeare / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: William Shakespeare; new translation of Shakespeare's plays; critical edition; Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth, a play written by William Shakespeare, in a new translation by Piotr Kamiński. A critical edition with commentary.

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The Tempest

Burza

Author(s): William Shakespeare / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: William Shakespeare; new translation of Shakespeare’s plays; critical edition; The Tempest

A play written by William Shakespeare, in a new translation by Piotr Kamiński. A critical edition with commentary.

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Richard II

Ryszard II

Author(s): William Shakespeare / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: William Shakespeare; new translation of Shakespeare’s plays; critical edition; Richard II

Exquisite, fluent and precise translation by Piotr Kamiński, accompanied by an incisive preface and commentary by Anna Cetera-Włodarczyk, with a beautiful book design by Maciej Buszewicz. The edition is equipped with footnotes, the list of Polish translations and productions of "Richard II". "Richard II" tells a story about the consequences of political pragmatism which endows secular authority with religious sanction thereby postulating its inviolability. This new variant of classical hubris soon proves as destructive as its ancient equivalents. (The Preface)

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The Memory of Poland in Online Memory Media of Israeli Entertainment and Leisure Tourism in 2017–2020 Compared to Earlier Memory Patterns. Space, People, Culinary Traditions

Pamięć Polski w internetowych mediach pamięci izraelskiej turystyki rozrywkowej i wypoczynkowej w latach 2017-2020 wobec wcześniejszych schematów pamiętania. Przestrzeń, ludzie, tradycje kulinarne

Author(s): Agata Szepe / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Israel; Poland; collective memory; memory studies; leisure tourism

The book is an attempt to reflect on changes in the image of Poland, its inhabitants and Polish culinary traditions in Israeli collective memory, which, for the last few years, have taken place under the influence of entertainment and leisure tourism from Israel to our country in terms of memory studies methodology: travelling memory and media induced memory. Sample questions posed during the analysis of particular media are, among others: What is the purpose of emphasizing the possibilities of undergoing contrasting experiences related to the memory of the Holocaust and entertainment in contemporary Poland? What rhetorical strategies are used by the authors writing about gastronomic offer in Poland to overcome the narrative of disapproval of the cuisine of Polish Jews? How is Poland described in tourist sources during periods of tension in Polish-Israeli relations? In the subsequent chapters the author shows how memory patterns, established in Israeli collective memory, provide language, metaphors and cultural images for a relatively new experience of Israeli leisure tourism in Poland.

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The Experience of War. The Media-Discursive Space of Modern Ukraine

Досвід війни. Медійно-дискурсивний простір сучасної України

Author(s): / Language(s): Ukrainian

Keywords: Ukrainian language; media discourse; identity; Ukraine; war

The monograph offers a number of works analysing the linguistic situation of modern Ukraine. The authors tackle a wide range of topics: the formation of national identity, strategic narratives, discursive strategies and tactics as well as constructive and destructive influences of media technologies. They also provide an outline of modern linguostylistics, pragmatics of verbal and non-verbal resources used to realise the discourse of the time of crisis and war as well as of topical approaches in neology and neography. Special attention is paid to the perspectives of medialinguistics, media discourse and theolinguistics.

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Polish Shakespeare Translations in the 20th and 21st Century. Resources, Strategies, Reception

Polskie przekłady Shakespeare'a w XX i XXI wieku. Zasoby, strategie, recepcja

Author(s): Anna Cetera-Włodarczyk,Mateusz Godlewski,Przemysław Pożar / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Shakespeare; literary translation; translation strategies; Shakespeare translations; drama reception; drama translation

The book offers a comprehensive account of Polish Shakespeare translations in the 20th and 21st century with particular attention to the analysis of translation strategies, biographical contexts and critical reception. The study centers on broadly understood assimilation processes of foreign literature in translation, their complexity and dynamics, and elucidates their historical, literary and theatrical dimension. The publication offers updates on Polish reception of Shakespeare and invites advanced comparative studies. This refers in particular to the relation of Shakespeare criticism and translation, the impact of aesthetics and theatrical conventions on translation policies, and the mechanisms governing retranslation of canonical works.

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32.00 €

Ethnographers Under Coercion. Polish Exiles in the Colonial Service of the Russian Empire

Etnografowie z przymusu. Polscy zesłańcy w służbie kolonialnej Cesarstwa Rosyjskiego

Author(s): Karina Gaibulina / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Siberia; Central Asia; Polish exiles; Polish Siberian triangle; Russian imperialism; orality; literacy; (post)colonialism

The books deals with the part Polish exiles played in the colonial expansion of the Russian Empire on the Kazakh steppes of Central Asia in the 19th century. The issue is discussed on the selected texts by three Polish political prisoners: Adolf Januszkiewicz, Bronisław Zaleski and Seweryn Gross, which to this day are important sources for Kazakh historiography. The basic analytical perspective of the work are the theory of orality and literacy and post-colonial studies.

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Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Flannery O’Connor; American South; Catholicism; Gothic; reception

This collection of essays is the first book-length study in Polish of the works, and to some extent the life, of Flannery O’Connor. Reflecting current research and methodology in literary studies, theology, and philosophy, it covers the writer’s complete works (including essays and letters), biography, reception, and strategies for translating her fiction into Polish.

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Exile – Migrations – Diaspora

Uchodźstwo – migracje – diaspora

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: diaspora; exile; migration; Siberia; Sakha; Yakutia; Buryatia; Tyva; Tuva

The volume contains texts resulting from the international seminar organised by the Polish- Siberian Research Group. They are the outcome of the cooperation between the academic community and actively involved representatives of indigenous Siberian peoples, who now live outside Siberia (in European Union countries, the United States, the United Kingdom and Mongolia). The book allows the understanding of the challenges faced by indigenous communities in Siberia. Also, it brings closer the discussion on developing precise terms and methods of conducting field research in Siberia when the Russian Federation is politically isolated.

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23.00 €

Twelfth Night, or what you will

Wieczór Trzech Króli, albo Co chcecie

Author(s): William Shakespeare / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: William Shakespeare; new translation of Shakespeare’s plays; critical edition; Twelfth Night

Strong, fluent and precise translation by Piotr Kamiński, accompanied by an incisive preface and commentary by Anna Cetera-Włodarczyk, with a beautiful book design by Maciej Buszewicz. The edition includes footnotes and the lists of Polish translations and productions of "Twelfth Night".

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34.00 €

Image Acts

Akt obrazu

Author(s): Horst Bredekamp / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: image act; history of image; image agency; performative; Horst Bredekamp

The first Polish translation of the "Image Acts", written by Horst Bredekamp, professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, an art historian specialising in the theory of the image, political iconology and scientific imagery. In the publication, illustrated with about 200 reproductions of artworks and iconographic sources, the author defines the impact of the image on human feelings, thinking and actions. He offers the reader a reflection on how the recipient's self-perspective transforms itself into an interaction between the recipient himself and the world that meets him. This process, according to the author, occurs in three dimensions: schematic – as a result of imitation of gestures, poses and image formulas, substitutive – as an exchange between the image and the body, and autonomous – as the inner force of the influence of the form itself.

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Writing is a Challenge. Young People’s Texts in School Education

Pisanie to wyzwanie. O tekstach młodzieży w edukacji szkolnej

Author(s): Anna Dąbrowska,Anna Konarzewska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: writing; literacy; youth’s writing skills; Polish language lessons; teaching methods

The authors analyze the students’ ability to complete written assignments. They combine the presentation of the results of the empirical studies with practical solutions in terms of improving the writing competence of teenagers. They show how youth deals with important writing skills – deduction, paraphrasing, contemplation (analysis), recontextualization, and summarising – and which characteristics of verbal communication can be found in the students’ texts. They present proven methodical solutions, which can support young people in improving their ability to create texts.

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26.00 €

Logopaedic and Linguistic Aspects of Diagnosis and Therapy of Children with Cleft Palate

Logopedyczno-lingwistyczne aspekty diagnozy i terapii dzieci z rozszczepem podniebienia

Author(s): Natalia Siudzińska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: speech disorders; open nose deformity; clefts; logopaedic therapy

The publication concerns speech disorders in children born with the isolated cleft palate or with the orofacial cleft. Particular attention is paid to the disorders in the form of open nose deformity, which result from velopharyngeal dysfunction and influence patients’ ability to speak clearly. The most important part of the monograph discusses speech therapy methods used in different periods of lives of children with this defect.

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50.00 €

The University of Warsaw. The Historical Campus and Its History

Uniwersytet Warszawski. Kampus historyczny i jego dzieje

Author(s): Jerzy Miziołek,Jerzy Pieszczurykow,Adam Tyszkiewicz / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: University of Warsaw; campus; higher education; history of science; Warsaw monuments

The publication is the first comprehensive study of history and historical architecture of Warsaw University buildings located within Krakowskie Przedmieście and Oboźna Streets and the Visitationist Church adjacent to them. This unique urban development was created in the place of the former residence of the Vasa royal dynasty (the 17th century), expanded and transformed into the Warsaw Corps of Cadets (2nd half of the 18th century), and finally into the university campus (the 19th century).The authors talk about the complex history of the Warsaw Alma Mater in several richly illustrated chapters devoted to historic buildings, focusing not only on architecture, but also on the figures of professors and alumni of the University – eminent representatives of Polish science and culture.

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30.00 €

The Story – the Nation – the Death. Regarding the Late Political Writing of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz

Opowieść – naród – śmierć. O późnym politycznym pisarstwie Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza

Author(s): Marcin Czardybon / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Rymkiewicz; nation; thymos; politics; sublimity

The presented book discusses the phenomenon of late political writing of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, which consists of volumes forming a series known as ‘Polish tetralogy’ ("Wieszanie" ["Hanging"], "Kinderszenen", "Samuel Zborowski", "Reytan. Upadek Polski" ["Reytan. The Fall of Poland"]) as well as the so-called ‘civil poems’. These texts – including the public statements of the author – at the end of the first and during the second decade of the 21st century created the phenomenon of ‘social impact’ of Rymkiewicz reported by numerous researchers and broadcasters. The author of the publication, using the literary, cultural, philosophical, and sociological tools, discovers the veiled, hidden meaning of the poet’s work, repeatedly challenging and making problematic the well-established in the Rymkiewicz’s doxa image of the writer – ‘the bloody bard of the Right Wing’.

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