The role of Western NGOs in the transition of postcommunist nations to democracy has been well documented. In this study, Paulina Pospieszna follows a different trajectory, examining the role of a ...former aid recipient (Poland), newly democratic itself, and its efforts to aid democratic transitions in the neighboring states of Belarus and Ukraine.
Although recent linguistic and media-studies' research has increasingly dealt with forms of imagery beyond language, such as in audiovisual formats, only little attention has been paid to the ...specific media character of audiovisual images. This raises a theoretical as well as methodological problem: How can processes of figurative meaning making in audiovisual media be adequately conceptualized and described? The book intends to bridge this research gap with an analysis of campaign commercials, a hitherto largely underexplored object of study in metaphor and metonymy research. To achieve this goal, a transdisciplinary film-analytical and cognitive-linguistic account of audiovisual figurativity is developed and examined through a comparative analysis of figurative meaning-making processes in German and Polish campaign commercials from 2009 and 2011. By setting the inseparable intertwining of language and cinematic staging, sensing and understanding center stage, the book provides insight into the dynamic nature and embodied affective grounds of audiovisual figurativity, and challenges the long-known dichotomies of rational discourse and affective manipulation, political message and media effect.
This volume is made up of essays first presented as papers at the conference held in May 2015 at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. It is divided into two sections. The first deals ...with museological questions—the voices of the curators, comments on the POLIN museum exhibitions and projects, and discussions on Jewish museums and education. The second examines the current state of the historiography of the Jews on the Polish lands from the first Jewish settlement to the present day. Making use of the leading scholars in the field from Poland, Eastern and Western Europe, North America, and Israel, the volume provides a definitive overview of the history and culture of one of the most important communities in the long history of the Jewish people.
Public opinion in Poland was much interested in the developments concerning the South Slavs in the final phase of World War I. Poland was still partitioned at that time, so there was no Polish ...national press. However, Polish newspapers and periodicals published under Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian administration, as well as those published in already independent Poland, welcomed the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes as the realisation of the natural law of small nations to independence and thus cheered the efforts of the Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs to build their own state. There were more absorbing issues at the time, with Poland herself in the dramatic process of reclaiming independent statehood, and there was no involvement with the South Slavs, so the topic did not make it to the front pages. Nevertheless, public opinion in Poland was well versed in the activity of leading Slovenian, Serbian, and Croatian politicians and the Italian challenge to the negotiation of the borders of the newly-established state. It was also aware of the state’s religious heterogeneity—Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Muslims—as a potential threat to national unity. No particular side was favoured. Even before the unification of the Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs in a common state, the nations of Southeastern Europe were often referred to as Yugoslavia and the people as Yugoslavs. Occasionally, news concerning the South Slavs were printed in bold to emphasise the topic’s importance to Polish editors and readers.
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This book provides an exceptional introduction to Polish theatre since the fall of Communism, exploring how theatre goes beyond norms and nationalistic concepts to intersect with politics, feminism, ...queer identities, the rise in anti-Semitism, ethnicities and history.
Analizirajući pisanje beogradske periodične štampe autor je pokušao da rekonstruiše kako je početak Drugog svetskog rata izgledao u očima savremenika, kakve su bile njihove projekcije, analize, ...perspektive. Prilikom selekcije časopisa trudio se da u radu budu zastupljeni članci autora koji su nastupali sa najrazličitijih ideoloških i političkih pozicija.
Članek se loteva teme cenzuriranja poezije na Poljskem v 80. letih 20. stoletja. V prvem delu opisuje s književno ustvarjalnostjo povezano zapleteno pravno in politično situacijo, med drugim številne ...spremembe v zakonu o cenzuri. V nadaljevanju je predstavljena založniška zgodovina cenzuriranih ali zaseženih pesmi. Članek temelji na obširni arhivski poizvedbi, v znatnem delu v varšavskem Arhivu novih spisov (polj. Archiwum Akt Nowych, AAN).
This memoir is about a Jewish baby born in the Krakow ghetto in November 1942, three years after Hitler conquered Poland, and, remarkably, escaping death-one of a mere one half of one percent of ...Jewish children in Poland who survived during the Nazi era. Her life was saved because her parents hid her with a Catholic family. Just as remarkably, her mother, still alive after suffering terribly through four of Hitler's camps, traveled for weeks back to Poland and found her again. The book also depicts the author's postwar challenges in Germany and America.
In an effort to defamiliarize the poetic text, poets in various literatures use a procedure that is a substantial transformation of the conventional lyrical subject “I” to the so-called “hypostatized ...subject”. This new form of the poetic subject is a predominant feature of broader epicizing tendencies that cross borders of national literatures and enrich authorial poetics. However, a poetic text with the hypostatized subject cannot be perceived only as a shift from the conventional lyrical subject that is an end in itself. Most authors use it not only as a mythological but also a social and historical reflection of a human personal subject that was failed by history. It is an attempt at a marked and distinctive artistic rendering of human destiny that is embedded to a lesser (Zbigniew Herbert) or greater (Ted Hughes) degree in a particular historical context. literature, Slovak literature, method, reflection, symbol