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Opium nieszkodliwe teatru, czyli o «Tragedii Eumenesa» Tadeusza Rittnera
According to Zbigniew Raszewski, Tragedia Eumenesa (The Tragedy of Eumenes) was one of Tadeusz Rittner’s worst plays. The present article engages polemically with this opinion.
Sabina Brzozowska
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Warszawskie teatry Stanisławy Wysockiej
This article presents selected aspects of Stanisława Wysocka’s directing and teaching activity in the interwar period. The author seeks out links between Wysocka’s theory and practice, discussing postulates from her journalistic texts about the “theater ...
Barbara Michalczyk
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Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia
ABSTRACT According to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia from c.1750 to 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in coastal Aboriginal languages suggest a long and complex history of foreign voyaging to northern Australia.
Chris Urwin +4 more
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Myths of Modernism: Austrian Art after 1918
The development of art in Austria after 1918 remains little explored; the main focus of research continues to be fin‐de‐siècle Vienna. Where interwar Austrian modernism is studied at all, interest is mostly limited to the municipal housing sponsored by the Social Democratic council.
Matthew Rampley
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Blue days: A mid‐20th century war memorial swimscape and the persistence of memory
Abstract War memorials were intended to console the living, honour the dead and remind future generations of duty and sacrifice. In living memorials, the combination of remembrance with celebrating life introduces a tension between the sacred and the profane, affecting the memory work of the memorial. Here, the persistence of memory in living memorials
Gretel Boswijk
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Krupp in the Occupied Eastern Territories: Frustration, Failures, and the Question of Freedom
This article speaks to a broader debate about the agency and freedom of German business during the Third Reich, on a spectrum from control and coercion to freedom of action. It argues that at least in the occupied eastern territories, Krupp and German business were not unwilling and coerced participants but neither entirely free to act as they wished ...
Troy Gillan
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Among all the surviving plays by Witkacy, Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes is most imbued with allusions to the Petrograd revolt. The story unfolding on stage seems at times to be a parody of the attack on the Winter Palace. The brave and uncompromising girl-
Przemysław Pawlak
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Witkacy na scenach polskich 1990–2015
The inventory of performances based on Witkacy's texts produced on Polish stages between 1990 and 2015 includes 282 entries in chronological order. Included are both stagings of theatrical works: dramas, self-parodies and juvenilia, as well as novels ...
Przemysław Pawlak (oprac.)
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Pocztówki z piekła: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz w Paryżu 1908
We know little about Witkacy’s stay in Paris in the spring of 1908; we do not know the letters to his father where he probably reported what he experienced there, and the correspondent letters by his father contain few traces of such reports.
Wojciech Sztaba
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This article is informed by an insight that has been present in Witkiewicz studies for a long time and makes it viable to read Witkacy’s dramaturgy and philosophical investigations through the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
Antoni Winch
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