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The Issa Valley in Censorship Documents. On the Thaw Reception of Czesław Miłosz’s Novel
Czesław Miłosz’s The Issa Valley [Dolina Issy] was published in the Paris Literary Institute in 1955 and soon after started paving its way to readers in the author’s native country, in spite of the censorship.
Marzena Woźniak-Łabieniec
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Polish literature and the Konzentrationslager. The beginning
In the article the author discusses the beginnings of Polish camp literature, more precisely: literature referring to the Nazi German concentration camps. For decades it was assumed that the earliest Polish texts of that type were published in 1945.
Arkadiusz Morawiec
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In the shadow of Moscow: the Stalinist reconstruction of the capitals of the Soviet republics
Looking through the prism of USSR national policy the article analyzes the reconstruction of Stalinist cities. The study is based on the visual analysis of the city landscapes of the capitals of 12 of 15 former Soviet republics. Focusing attention on the
Rasa Čepaitienė
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This study introduces novel research using Practice Context Models supported by Knowledge Networks and Percolation Theory with the aim to contribute to knowledge management in Proof-of-Concept (PoC) activities.
Antonio Jose Rodrigues Neto +2 more
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Center and periphery: borderline cities and borderlines of cities
„Center and periphery: borderline cities and borderlines of cities" Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 39(1), p.
Rasa Čepaitienė
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Women’s hair in Lager narratives
The article offers an analysis of women’s Lager narratives in which the procedure of removing hair from female prisoners of concentration camps was reflected.
Barbara Czarnecka
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There Will be no Strength. (In)coherence and (Im)potency
In 1949, Czesław Miłosz spent a few days in Wroclaw, which was still in ruins after WWII. Six years later Miłosz wrote an interesting poem entitled Pokój (The Room) and created a symbolical vision of the city.
Mateusz Antoniuk
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Report and lament – Zalman Gradowski’s notes from Auschwitz
The notes by Zalman Gradowski, one of the leaders of the rebellion of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau, are one of the most important Holocaust documents created by its victims right from its epicentre as the crime progressed.
Kazimierz Adamczyk
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Witkacy suffered from amusia as a child and as an adult person. He was seriously interested in music only for a little over twenty years (1890–1914?). He wrote his main works as an amusic. The relation between amusia and metaphysical feelings may suggest
Tomasz Bocheński
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Freedom of self-discreditation. On Witkacy’s letters to his wife
„If these letters are to be found by someone after my death, I will be brought into disrepute (…)” – wrote Witkacy to Jadwiga and he reminded his wife of destroying all the letters she receives from him.
Sara Kurowska
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