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Jan Smetanski (1881-1959), a Lviv natural historian and a high school teacher, was an avid bibliophile. He assembled a rich collection of 40,000 volumes, which was removed from Lviv after the war and located first in Przemysl and then in Katowice. After the owner died, the collection was dispersed. Some of the books were purchased by the Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, a part by the Silesian Library in Katowice, a fragment of the collection remained in the possession of the family. The article discusses a fragment of Jan Smetanski’s collection kept in the collections of the Silesian Library.
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The volume contains texts discussing the extent to which literature has been and is politically and socially involved, what its part in social debates is and can it be considered influential in the socio-political sphere of German society during the period considered. The authors also try to answer the question if and to what degree the aesthetic of literary texts serves political themes.
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German literature, European literature, political involvement, Germany, politicsThe volume contains texts discussing the extent to which literature has been and is politically and socially involved, what its part in social debates is and can it be considered influential in the socio-political sphere of German society during the period considered. The authors also try to answer the question if and to what degree the aesthetic of literary texts serves political themes.
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A handbook of the Polish language for foreigners – beginners and intermediate students. It includes 40 methodological units devoted to the basic Polish grammar issues, the key to exercises enabling the students to work with the handbook on their own, and an example test on grammatical correctness.
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‘Dead silence’ can resonate with more meaning than the spoken word, the absence of oral discourse signaling the presence of an unsettling subject, as Edward Said commented in Culture and Imperialism. Heart of Darkness pierces this silence through its assessment of Victorian society’s corrosive capitalist core. The novella’s symbolism and collapse of binaries anticipates modernism, and these techniques allow Conrad to censure white men, both those with real and petty power; and white women, who are depicted as colonialism’s passive or active enablers. This portrayal ultimately condemns the characters’ brutality even as it expresses cynicism about humanity’s potential for compassion.
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The text discusses the play about the last hours of life of the Rosenbergs titled Juliusand Ethel, the history of the trial, passing the sentence and the execution of Julius and EthelRosenbergs carried out on June 19, 1953. Besides Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy’s“witch-hunt”, this is the second most famous example of the American anti-communistatmosphere of the early 1950s, which led to the crisis of the democratic order and itsinstitutions in the United States. The case took place at the beginning of the Cold Wardivision of the world and the nuclear arms race, which put the world on the brink of selfdestruction.For the US radicals and the left-wing intellectuals, the Rosenbergs belonging to the US Communist Party are victims of the right-wing witch-hunt, creating anti-communistatmosphere, however they are also perceived as patrons of antiwar movements, precursors ofthe nuclear weapons opponents movement (the espionage, which they had never confessedto was to concern passing secrets about the US nuclear weapons programs to the Russians).For conservative America this will be a story about the efficiency of the legal, politicaland moral system facing a real threat in the fight against communism – dangerous for theentire civilized democratic world.How does the socialist realism work by Leon Kruczkowski appear against this background?
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The volume contains texts discussing the extent to which literature has been and is politically and socially involved, what its part in social debates is and can it be considered influential in the socio-political sphere of German society during the period considered. The authors also try to answer the question if and to what degree the aesthetic of literary texts serves political themes.
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In the novel "La Cathedrale" published in 1897, Joris-Karl Huysmans attempted to understand the phenomenon of the gothic cathedral, using the example of Notre-Dame in Chartres. The article shows how the author's interpretation are based on the 19th-century thought, and they came from. Huysmans saw gothic cathedrals as a religious phenomenon, which was contradictory to tradition introduced by Victor Hugo. While analyzing the symbolism of the architecture as well as the iconography of the sculptures and stain-glass windows, he followed the 19th-century archeology and Christian iconography which attached symbolic meaning to all elements in the church.
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The volume contains texts discussing the extent to which literature has been and is politically and socially involved, what its part in social debates is and can it be considered influential in the socio-political sphere of German society during the period considered. The authors also try to answer the question if and to what degree the aesthetic of literary texts serves political themes.
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“NAKED LIFE” OF VENITCHKA YEROFEYEV, OR MOSCOW – PETUSHKI FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF SERGEI EISENSTEIN’S THEORY OF MONTAGE Summary The article is an attempt to conduct a comparative analysis of Venedikt Yerofeyev’s Moscow – Petushki in the context of Sergei Eisenstein’s theory of montage, which was derived from the combination of montage of attractions, analogies and antitheses. Treating Eisenstein’s experience as the point of reference I focus on the techniques used in Yerofeyev’s text, whose target are the reactions of the virtual recipient, for example the juxtaposition of apparently unconnected shots in order to shock the reader. My paper turns attention to the use made of various artistic means such as the leitmotif of alcohol consumption exposed in the poem, pauses, counterpoints or manipulation of emotionally intensified episodes. Adj. M. Bucholc
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The volume contains texts discussing the extent to which literature has been and is politically and socially involved, what its part in social debates is and can it be considered influential in the socio-political sphere of German society during the period considered. The authors also try to answer the question if and to what degree the aesthetic of literary texts serves political themes.
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The article is an attempt to characterize and define a possible generic framework for the literary phenomenon of female autobiographies and memoirs of hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital or experience of mental illness that are of interest both to the humanities (the theory of autobiography, anthropology of literature, somatopoetics, etc.) as well as the areas related to medicine (narrative medicine or sociology of medicine). To the historical analysis of the phenomenon and an attempt to reconstruct this kind of discourse from the narrative of hysterics produced in the psychoanalysts’ offices, the author added the case study, which is a memoir Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, a clinician suffering from manic depression.
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In the first part, the article discusses selected aspects of the history of the first Polishtranslation of F. Kafka’s novel The Trial, and indicates that numerous and significantchanges were introduced into it anonymously, starting from the first post-war issue in 1957.The author claims that in fact we are not dealing with one and the same translation, buta translation palimpsest. The second part of the article presents the interpretation ofThe Trial which states that while writing his novel Kafka considerably referred to theanthroposophical ideas included in the book How to Know Higher Worlds by RudolfSteiner, then regarding that it analyzes The Trial as a variant of a folktale (a mythical story)about a hero based on the findings of Vladimir Propp (Morphology of the Folktale) andJoseph Campbell (The Hero with Thousand Faces).
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The article is the chapter from the book written for German readers. This book is about one of the most vital "pedagogic movement" in the interwar Poland: "movement of the friend of children", founded and run by educationists, who had strong belief in socialistic ideology. This article consists of four parts. The first one presents the famous vision of "hauses made of glass" described by Stefan Żeromski in his last novel "Przedwiośnie". This part also shows an attempt of Warsaw Biulding Society to make the vision real. The second part is devoted to precursors, genesis, forms of activity and development of Workers' Society of Friends of Children, founded in 1926. It contains a lot of comparisons and references both to Austian and German movement of friend of children. The third part presents, basing on case study, the activity of Workers' Society of Friend of Children in the Warsaw district Żoliborz. This dictrict, in respect of scale and complexity, resembles the Hellerau housing estates in Dresden in the beginning of XX century. The fourth part is "a general view of post-war days of the movement of friend of children". In this part the author draws a conclusion that the continuator of pre-war "movement of friends of children" being in service with State, giving up the vision of "hauses made of glass" and "cooperative republic" utopia unfortunately stopped being "the fighters of tomorrow" and became ordinary social workers or communistic propagandists.
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The article is the chapter from the book written for German readers. Its topic concerns one of the most vital "pedagogic movements" in the interwar Poland: "The movement of the pupils' councils". the aricle consists of six parts. The first one is devoted to memorise one of the finest and most famous books for children: Król Maciuś Pierwszy (The King Maciuś the First) written by Janusz Korczak (1878-1942). The second part briefly presents the activity and work of this doctor, wrtier and undoubtedly the most famous Polish educationist worldwide. The third part shows the activity of the childre councils, which were brought into being by janusz Korczak in the "House of Orphans" (the orphanage for the Jewish children) and in "Our House" (the orphanage for Polish children). The fourt part gives an insight into two main origins of the Polish "movement of the pupils' councils": a home origin - connected with the activity of National Education Committee during the Enlightenment period and a foreign one connected with the educational reflecion and activity of Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster and Adolph Ferriere. The fifth part presents the theory and practise of the Polish "movement of the pupils' councils" during the interwar period. Finally, the sixpart is a "general view of he post-war days of the movement of the pupils' self-governments". In this part the author gives utterenace to a hope that, thanks to system transformation in Poland after 1989, it will be possible to take a step forward in the realisation of the utopia of the children democracy, of which the King Maciuś the First had been dreaming.
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