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There Will be no Strength. (In)coherence and (Im)potency
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2016 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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Another 20th century epidemic [PDF]
QJM, 2012 Sir, I greatly enjoyed Dr David Grimes’ review ‘An epidemic of coronary heart disease’.1 An epidemic of a completely different disease, duodenal ulcer, occurred during almost exactly the same time, which seems rather unlikely to have been a coincidence.
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Report and lament – Zalman Gradowski’s notes from Auschwitz
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017 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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21st Century Ballet, 20th Century Racism
Dance Major Journal, 2022 One incident startled a young dancer in class and causes her to wonder: Why can’t the ballet world move forward? What can we do to incite change?
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2016 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
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017 „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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Freedom and secretiveness, in late modernism
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017 The text considers two metaphors describing creative freedom in modern society: secretiveness and shadow. In the shadow, creative individuals protect themselves against the ubiquitous need to explain and screen life.
Tomasz Bocheński
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Forcing and response in simulated 20th and 21st century surface energy and precipitation trends
, 2009 A simple methodology is applied to a transient integration of the Met Office Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model version1 (UKMO-HadGEM1) fully coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model in order to separate forcing from climate response in ...
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Creator’s freedom. Schulz’s late projects
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017 The article discusses the idea of creation coined by authors descended from the same, Austro-Hungarian cultural field, by: Bruno Schulz, Joseph Roth and Gustav Meyrink. Austro-Hungarian Monarchy created its own mithology based on nostalgia for the World,
Monika Szyszka vel Syska
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2022 The article aims to introduce the reader to the censorship strategies applied to works by Włodzimierz Scisłowski submitted for publication in the satirical magazine Kaktus [Cactus] in 1957–1960.
Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk
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