Polish camp literature. A few questions about a synthesis that is missing [PDF]
The author of the text poses questions why there has never been a historical and literary synthesis regarding Polish camp literature, Lager-themed in particular, as Gulag literature possesses at least protosyntheses.
Kulesza, Dariusz
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The Last of the Purim Players: Itzik Manger [PDF]
After 1920, there was only one place left on earth where Yiddish storytelling could grow and prosper, and that place was Poland. The pace and political pressures of Jewish life in the Americas, the Soviet "Republics," and Palestine had turned folklore ...
Roskies, David G.
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On the History of the Term “Ethnomusicology” [PDF]
It is generally accepted that the fundamental term “ethnomusicology,” as universally accepted in contemporary scholarship, first appeared in 1950 and was invented by the Dutchman Jaap Kunst. In reality, the birthplace of this term is Ukraine where it was
Lukaniuk, Bohdan
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‘New History—the New Ways of Knowing and Remembering the Caucasus in Poland’ [PDF]
This paper aims to reconstruct the knowledge claims and memory politics in Polish public discourse about the Caucasus. As it highlights the importance of history and a production of a ‘New History’ for political use, it illuminates the role of the visual
Pierzynska, Justyna
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Hugh Easton's Neo‐Baroque Art and the Stained‐Glass Closet in Postwar Britain*
Hugh Ray Easton (1906–1965) was a leading mid‐twentieth century British designer of stained‐glass windows. His works combined neo‐baroque style with an aesthetic that was attuned to glamour in contemporary media such as film and homoerotic physique magazines.
Jane Brocket, Dominic Janes
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Intellectual limitation of freedom? The issues of libertas in the nationalistic reception of Italian fascism in the Second Polish Republic (based on the examples of journalistic publications) [PDF]
The limiting of personal freedom in interwar Italy resulted directly from the fascist approach to the state-individual relationship. The idea of leaving the citizens the broadest individual freedom, and limiting state law activities to the minimum was ...
Sobczak, Paweł
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Capturing homosocial worlds in the photographs of the Rugby Club, 1885–1920
Abstract During the First World War, the Rev. Charles S. Donald, warden of the London‐based Rugby Club, sent several war time circulars to current and former club members. This article examines how Donald used the circular's photographs to sustain pre‐war links.
Lucinda Matthews‐Jones
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The article results from the author’s participation in a project proposing interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary revisions of the interwar period (1918–1939), including the interwar period in theater.
Katarzyna Fazan
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Language on the Stage – Questions of Identity and Ideology [PDF]
Language used on the stage always bears certain connotations to the identity, ideology and morality of characters, theatre makers and audiences. In my article, I am going to analyse how minority languages have been used or represented in Finnish ...
Saro, Anneli
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Freedom of self-discreditation. On Witkacy’s letters to his wife [PDF]
„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.
Kurowska, Sara
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