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IMAGE OFIMAGINATION AND IMAGE OFIDEOLOGY (ON A FORGOTTEN NOVEL BY SONJA ŠPÁLOVÁ)

IMIDŽ IMAGINACE A IMIDŽ IDEOLOGIE (NAD JEDNÍM ZAPOMENUTÝM ROMÁNEM SONJI ŠPÁLOVÉ)

Author(s): Vladimír Novotný / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 4/2006

The woman-writer Sonja Špálová (1898–1994) became famous especially for biographical novels on the artists of the 19th century. It is her attempts of the genre of social novels that have been forgotten and that are of much interest. It holds true of a prose Polyxena, which was written during the 2nd World War, and especially a novel Petruška a soudruzi (“Petruška and Comrades”) (the girl name Petruška being the diminutive of Petronila). In this novel, very special from the point of view of a theme, Špálová has combined the scheme of educational narrative and means of the topical political novel – and a story of the young woman who gets to know the backstage life of the then ideological attitudes and ideological crimes. This Špálová’s novel has been “excised” of the history of the Czech literature and after 1948 Špálová has never returned to the social and ideological problems.

FROM EXPERIMENT TO MADNESS AND BACKWARDS

OD EXPERIMENTU K BLÁZNOVSTVÍ A NAOPAK NEBOLI O ČLOVĚKU NORMÁLNÍM A EXPERIMENTÁLNÍM

Author(s): Ladislav Soldán / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 1/2010

Karel Čapek is concerned with problems in work of some writers who experimented with poem´s language or persons or their own author´s subject. He is heading for mannerism in some essay of book Marsyas čili Na okraj literatury (1931) and mainly in his uncompleted novel Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna (1939), published after his death. This mannerism is different from mannerism in 1520–1650. We alert on impulses from Jiří Opelík in essay Po iksté o „Foltýnovi“. The essay was published in a book titled Čtrnáctero prací o Karlu Čapkovi a ještě jedna o Josefu Čapkovi jako přívažek (2008). We find the issue of mannerism also in 1850–1950 and we are concerned with impulses from books by a German author Gustav René Hocke (1908–1985), named Svět jako labyrint and Manýrismus v literatuře, translated to Czech (2001).

Populism and Righ-Wing radicalism in Poland

Populismus und Rechtsradikalismus in Polen

Author(s): Zbigniew Wilkiewicz / Language(s): German / Issue: 03-04/2000

Die Vergangenheitstempora im Deutschen und ihr semantisches Potential

Die Vergangenheitstempora im Deutschen und ihr semantisches Potential

Author(s): Hans-Jorg Schwenk / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: Vergangenheitstempora

The present article deals with the semantics of tense forms of Präteritum and Perfectum in German. The author questions all the widely known theories on the meaning of Präteritum and Perfectum, demonstrating that, on the one hand, the complex past tense (Perfectum) does not always express both temporality and aspectuality (perfectivity), but also only temporality itself. On the other hand, the simple past tense (Präteritum) always contains both temporality and aspectuality, except for lexically-conditioned cases.

PROCESSIONALE CISTERCIENSE – S II 56 AUS DEM DIÖZESANARCHIV IN GDAŃSK-OLIVA

Processionale cisterciense – S II 56 z Archiwum Diecezjalnego w Oliwie

Author(s): Janusz Jasiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 24/2009

Die Analyse der im Olivischen Konvent gefeierten Prozessionen lässt uns ihre Differenzierung bemerken, von den feierlichen und ausgebauten Formen beginnend bis zu den einfacheren. Die olivischen Prozessionen machen in dieser Hinsicht keine Ausnahme, aber sie schreiben sich in die im ganzen Orden herrschenden Tendenzen ein. Die Liturgie und die Zisterziensergeistigkeit hatten immer einen auf Christus gerichteten Charakter, der unmittelbar mit dem Kult von Maria zusammenhängt. Dies fand eine Bestätigung in der Handschrift aus Oliva, die die Prozessionsgesänge unterbringt, die mit der Liturgie der sechs Hauptfeste um Maria verbunden sind. In dieser Hinsicht korrespondiert S II 56 mit dem Zisterzienserritual aus Rudy Wielkie in Schlesien, obwohl es unter ihnen Unterschiede in der Wahl der einzelnen Gesänge für manche Feste gibt. Das ändert aber nichts an dem allgemeinen Bild der Liturgie der Zisterzienserprozessionen, die dem Auftrag des Generalkapitels gemäß eine einfache Liturgie ohne Pracht sein sollte. Eine solche Überlieferung erhalten wir auf Grund einer Analyse der Quelle des Manuskripts aus Oliva, dessen Bearbeitung zweifellos unser Wissen über den Gottesdienst erweitert, der im 17. Jahrhundert in dieser monastischen Gemeinschaft im Danziger Pommern gelesen wurde.

(In)convenient image of the German in the consciousness of the German minority leaders in Gdańsk Pomerania

(Nie)wygodny wizerunek Niemca w świadomości liderów mniejszości niemieckiej z Pomorza Gdańskiego

Author(s): Magdalena Lemańczyk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: German minority; auto and heterostereotype; Prussia; Gdańsk Pomerania; German pride

The author presents the results of sociological research concerning the German minority in Gdańsk Pomerania (former province of West Prussia and the Free City of Gdańsk). This article aims to analyze this part of the study, which refers to the German image (stereotype) in the minds of the leaders of the German minority. German image is presented in the socio-historical context, taking into account factors such as intergroup relations, group and individual experiences of respondents, intergenerational communication, etc.

Reminded reality. Poland in the foreign policy conception of Helmut Kohl

Erinnerte Wirklichkeit. Polen in der außenpolitischen Konzeption Helmut Kohls

Author(s): Anna Górajek / Language(s): German / Issue: 4/2014

Keywords: Helmut Kohl; Poland; Germany; 1989; remembrance; reality

In this paper, the author presents a brief description of the place and role Poland’s in the memoires of the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl. Although, at the first view, it can be assumed that Poland and the Polish politicians don’t appear too often in Kohl’s report, it could be shown after a closer analysis that Kohl refers many times to both of them. Poland aroused a special interest, but also irritation, of the chancellor around 1990 as Germany was re-united and the negotiations regarding the common border between Poland and Germany were carried out, which is depicted in this paper.

Figures of Absence / Rhetoric of Emptiness

Figury nieobecności / Retoryka pustki

Author(s): Katarzyna Szalewska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 08/2016

Keywords: rhetoric; poetics; discursive techniques; performative turn;

The paper analyzes the figures of absence, connected with both the rhetoric of emptiness and poetics of disappearance. It is moreover an attempt to classify the discursive techniques that aim to represent the textual “gone” (places that no longer exist, were destroyed, and those in which the subject is present no more). Attention is also devoted to performative dimension of writing, which produces the emptiness and, in this production, fills the void and introduces it into cultural network. The article explores literary examples from the 20th and 21st centuries.

ESTIMATING INEQUALITY AVERSION FROM SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS OF THE JUST NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCES IN WELFARE

ESTIMATING INEQUALITY AVERSION FROM SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS OF THE JUST NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCES IN WELFARE

Author(s): Stanisław Maciej Kot / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: inequality; aversion; income; utility estimation

Research background: In Economics, the concept of inequality aversion corresponds with the concept of risk aversion in the literature on making decision under uncertainty. The risk aversion is estimated on the basis of subjective reactions of people to various lottery prospects. In Economics, however, an efficient method of estimating inequality aversion has not been developed yet. Purpose of the article: The main aim of this paper is to develop the method of estimating inequality aversion. Methods: The method is based on two income thresholds which are subjectively assessed by surveyed respondents. Given the level of household income, just noticeable worsening of household welfare is perceived below the first threshold, whereas just noticeable improvement of household welfare is perceived above the second threshold. The thresholds make possible effective calculations of the parameter of the Arrow-Pratt’s constant inequality aversion utility function. In this way, an individual utility of income becomes an empirically observable economic phenomenon. Findings & Value added: In this paper, two theorems are proved which provide the guidance on how to identify a proper version of the above function. The proposed method is tested on the basis of statistical data from the archival survey conducted among Polish households in 1999. The statistical analysis of those data reveals the appearance of convex utility functions as well as concave ones. Nevertheless, the prevailing part of the Polish society exhibited inequality aversion in the year 1999. Another result of this paper is that inequality aversion diminishes as income increases.

The origins and development of geography in multiethnic Gdansk

Początki i rozwój geografii w wieloetnicznym Gdańsku

Author(s): Jan Wendt / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 05/2016

Keywords: development of geography; history of geography; Gdansk; research directions; Gdansk school of geography;

The history of Gdansk geography, understood as an academic field of study is relatively short, and dates back to the first half of the twentieth century. However, geographical conditions, location and development of the city on the Vistula, the Baltic Sea, on the coast of the Gulf of Gdansk, leave no doubt as to the need for a very good knowledge of the geography by its residents. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century Gdańsk has become one of the most important centers in the country of culture and science and the implementation of new inventions. Gdańsk, the city of merchants and sailors, is also one of the important centers of plotting maps and atlases issuance of geographical, natural and finally astronomical. First Gdansk Academic Gymnasium, then under the name of Gymnasium Dantiscanum was established relatively late, because only in 1558. The first preserved statute gymnasium provided taught history in conjunction with geography, which from the beginning placed the Gdansk Gymnasium in a row the most distinguished institutions for the development of many disciplines. The first lectures in geography, by Bartholomeus Keckermann, were released under the title of Systema geographicum duobus libris adornatum et audience olim praelectum in 1612. The famous Gdansk Nature Society has been founded in 1742. In one of the first volumes published by the Society can be found to develop Gotffried Reyger devoted to observations weather in the city, based on meteorological data collected from 1,721 years.|After the end of the Second World War, in 1946, two-year Pedagogium in Gdansk-Oliwa was founded section studies geography and natural sciences with the Department of Geography. A year later Pedagogium transformed into the Pedagogical University, which created the Faculty of Life Sciences section of bio-geographical, which conducted a two-way studies of the biology of geography. In 2010, the Institute of Geography moved to the university campus in Gdansk-Oliwa. In the structure of departments geography functioned until 2005, pursuant to the Resolution of the Senate re-created at the Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanology Institute of Geography.

Christmas Tree in the Upper Rhine Cities of the 16-17th Century

Der Christbaum in den oberrheinischen Städten des 16./17. Jahrhunderts

Author(s): László Lukács / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: appearance; history; distribution of the Christmas tree; Christmas tree festivities; folkways; Cities of the Upper Rhine; Basel; Freiburg; Strasbourg;

The birthplace of the Christmas tree is the territory of the Aleman people, thus the territories of Baden and Alsace along the upper part of the river Rhine. Its direct predecessors are the maypole trees during winter and Christmas time, thus the branches of pine trees with which the houses, economical and agricultural buildings, fences and wells along the upper Rhine were decorated inside and out during the midwinter festivities (Christmas, New Year etc). According to a medieval legal principle in upper Alsace, the peasants had the right to bring a cartful of wood (branches of pine trees in the first place) on Christmas Eve from the forest. Written legal principles and customs recording this habit can be found in many cities of upper Alsace: Sundhofen (around 1300), Bergheim (1369), Germar (14th century). The habit of decorating houses with evergreen branches at Christmas is in Strasbourg and Freiburg 500 years old. The cities of the Alsace region have guarded their forests in the days before the midwinter festivities against thieves. We know of a bill of a sum paid to the foresters guarding the forests at St. Thomas’s day (21st December) in Schlettstadt (1521). The judge of Sankt Pilt did put the forest of the city under heavy guard for nine days before and after Christmas, because of a legal principle of the upper Alsace (14th century). The cities and landowners tried to keep the number and size of the may-pole trees meant to be cut for Christmas via decrees at bay. Türkheim has in 1611 decreed that anyone who cuts out more than one tree for Christmas has to pay a fine. In a legal principle at Adolsheim (1431) the landowner has allowed the cutting of a 7 feet tall pine tree. The great size of the may-pole trees shows that they are no more branches to decorate a room or small trees hanging from the ceiling, but big Christmas trees standing in the house or in the open. In Strasbourg the sale of Christmas tree began in 1539. According to their accounts, the wealthy house of Sichenheim did pay for pine trees and branches. The cathedral of Strasbourg did have a standing Christmas tree in the same year. The manuscript A few sights from Strasbourg (1604 or 1605) describes many decorated Christmas trees in guild houses of artisans. The Christmas tree was also popular in Freiburg (14th century): The town council was forced to fine those who cut may-pole trees for Christmas illegally. In the town hospital to the Holy Spirit the bakers decorated a large Christmas tree, which remained untouched until New Year. Its edible decorations, cakes, fruits were distributed among the poor at the Christmas-tree festivities in the 17th–18th centuries. The accounts of the hospital show that between 1625 and 1773 they had always expenses for the decoration of the Christmas tree. The historical clues show us that the Christmas tree was a popular habit on both sides of the upper Rhine in the 16th century among the Protestants and the Catholic Christians as well.

GDAŃSK’S COMPOSERS? AT THE SOURCES OF ARTISTIC IDENTITY IN WORKS OF POSTWAR COMPOSERS IN THE POLISH COAST

KOMPOZYTORZY GDAŃSCY? U ŹRÓDEŁ ARTYSTYCZNEJ TOŻSAMOŚCI TWÓRCÓW POWOJENNEGO WYBRZEŻA

Author(s): Joanna Schiller-Rydzewska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2017

Keywords: cross; composers in Gdańsk; Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński; Władysław Walentynowicz; Konrad Pałubicki

Composers who worked in postwar Gdańsk came to the city from different part of the prewar Poland. Their cultural and educational background was related to their own local tradition, rather different than Gdańsk’s. Those personal experience made their music strongly bonded with their rooted tradition than with the region of Pomerania. To this group of composers belong Władysław Walentynowicz and Konrad Pałubicki. In fact in achievement of Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński we can observe much more references to the city of Gdańsk and Pomerania region because of his prewar Gdańsk’s roots. From this perspective we can noticed that diversity of artistic paths have its deep source in musical experience of personal musical origin and tradition.

A Business-cycle-model with a Modified Cash-in-advance Feature, Government Sector and Oneperiod Nominal Wage Contracts: The Case of Bulgaria

A Business-cycle-model with a Modified Cash-in-advance Feature, Government Sector and Oneperiod Nominal Wage Contracts: The Case of Bulgaria

Author(s): Aleksandar Vasilev / Language(s): English / Issue: 8/2018

Keywords: business cycles; modified cash-in-advance constraint; one-period nominal wage contracts

We augment an otherwise standard business cycle model with a richer government sector, and add a modified cash in advance considerations, and one-period-ahead nominal wage contracts. In particular, the cash in advance constraint of Cooley and Hansen (1989) is extended to include private investment and government consumption. This specification, together with the nominal wage rigidity, when calibrated to Bulgarian data after the introduction of the currency board (1999-2016), gives a role to money in propagating economic fluctuations. In addition, the combinations of these ingredients allows the framework to reproduce better observed variability and correlations among model variables, and those characterizing the labor market in particular.

A study on conceptual transfer in the use of prepositions in English writing by Chinese secondary school students

A study on conceptual transfer in the use of prepositions in English writing by Chinese secondary school students

Author(s): Shaoqian Luo,Shuai Zhang / Language(s): English / Issue: 02 (17)/2017

Keywords: conceptual transfer; image schema; prepositions; English writing; Chinese secondary school students;

This study addresses the issue of conceptual transfer in Chinese EFL learners’ use of prepositions under the guidance of Image Schema Theory, aiming to explore the cognitive underpinnings of conceptual transfer. By observing linguistic data from the learner corpus WCEL (Writing Corpus of English Learners), part of ICCI (The International Corpus of Crosslinguistic Interlanguage), this study summarises types and manifestations of conceptual transfer in the use of prepositions in English writing by Chinese secondary school students, and analyses corresponding cognitive causes of conceptual transfer. Data processing software, AntConc, is used for observation of concordance lines according to the minimum assumption proposed by Sinclair (2004) in corpus-based studies. It is found that errors made by students in their use of English prepositions are mainly caused by negative conceptual transfer of the Chinese language; positive conceptual transfer also exists. Conceptual transfer is mainly caused by cognitive similarities and differences between English and Chinese, represented by image schemas.

TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES ON PEER-LED LEARNING AT GHION SECONDERY AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL OFBAHIR DAR CITY, ETHIOPIA

TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES ON PEER-LED LEARNING AT GHION SECONDERY AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL OFBAHIR DAR CITY, ETHIOPIA

Author(s): Asrat Dagnew / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Keywords: Teachers; students; perception; practice and peer-led learning;

This study was carried out to investigate family dynamics and parenting problems of secondary school students in Uyo Metropolis of Akwa Ibom State. Three research questions and three null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The survey design was adopted for the study. The population of 7412 students (2016/2017 academic session) with a sample of 200 students selected from 4 public secondary schools within the study area. A researcher – made questionnaire called “Family Dynamics and Parenting Problems of Secondary School Students Questionnaire (FDPPSSQ)” was used to elicit data from respondents. The research instrument has a 4-point rating scale. The Pearson Product Moment (PPM) Correlation Coefficient of 0.87 ascertained the reliability of instrument for use in the study. After the administration, scoring and collation of the instrument, the data obtained were subjected to Independent t-test. All the null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Based on the result of this study, it is concluded that Secondary School students’ in Uyo Metropolis Area differ significantly in terms of parenting problem based on parent-child relationship, parent level of education and family size of students. It is recommended that Seminars, workshops, and symposia on family size should be organized for parents. This will make them aware of family size as it influences secondary school students, thus parents will also control the family size through birth control mechanisms.

Are Francophone Writers Francophiles? Four European French-Speaking Writers Choosing a Language

Има ли франкофилия при франкофоните? Четирима европейски френскоезични писатели за избора на език

Author(s): Roumiana L. Stantcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2019

Keywords: French-speaking writers; pre-existing representations; Agota Christof; Georges Papazov; Petar Ouvaliev/Pierre Rouve; Panait Istrati

This article briefly introduces the French-speaking writers Agota Christof, Georges Papazoff, Petar Ouvaliev and Panait Istrati and argues that the choice of a foreign language cannot be a sign of preference for this specific language, since the language does not decide for the content of literary work. Pre-existing representations determine the nature of art.This article briefly introduces the French-speaking writers Agota Christof, Georges Papazoff, Petar Ouvaliev and Panait Istrati and argues that the choice of a foreign language cannot be a sign of preference for this specific language, since the language does not decide for the content of literary work. Pre-existing representations determine the nature of art.

Bibliography of translations of Polish literature in Czech Republic (2019—2020)

Bibliografia przekładów literatury polskiej w Czechach w latach 2019—2020

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2022

Die jüdische Avantgarde von Lodz. Ein universitäres Projekt

Die jüdische Avantgarde von Lodz. Ein universitäres Projekt

Author(s): Krystyna Radziszewska / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2022

The Conversion of Durtal in The Cathedral as a Crossroads of Social, Spiritual and Semantic Transformations

La conversion de Durtal dans La Cathédrale, carrefour de métamorphoses sociales, spirituelles et sémantiques

Author(s): Aleksandra Kamińska / Language(s): French / Issue: 17/2022

Keywords: conversion; The Cathedral; paradox; semantic experiments; reader;

The present paper explores Durtal’s conversion as the refusal of any fixed reference. The reflections of the hero on his personal experience, but also on the social transformations are characterised by the metaphysical seriousness and semantic experiments. The constant lexical substitution arouses the curiosity of the reader: its referential opacity is only apparent. Thus, the writer emphasizes that going beyond the beaten path requires a new mode of expression where meaning no longer depends on the rehashing of commonplaces, but relies on semantic mismatches and prolonged tensions between juxtaposed terms. Likewise, social transformations strongly disapproved of by the hero become the source of paradoxical reasoning where truth is expressed through the negativity of judgment. Nevertheless, despite the lucidity of his social and ethical judgments, Durtal remains blind to the imperfection of his own conversion. Moreover, the frequent recourse to paradox demonstrates that the protagonist is still in doubt which announce a long spiritual path of true conversion.

Informatorium

Informatorium

Author(s): No name Anonymous / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 6/2022

Keywords: bibliographies;

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