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The Palace Complex
An exploration of the history and significance of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland. The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was “gifted” to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace’s visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the everyday life of the Polish capital as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from a “Palace of Culture complex.” Despite attempts to privatize it, the Palace remains municipally owned, and continues to play host to a variety of public institutions and services. The Parade Square, which surrounds the building, has resisted attempts to convert it into a money-making comm...
The Americanization of Europe
Using Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two destructive wars, ethnic cleansing, and economic disaster, this book explores the political and cultural parameters of Americanization and anti-Americanism.
Hauntology and Intertextuality in Contemporary British Drama by Women Playwrights
Hauntology and Intertextuality in Contemporary British Drama by Women Playwrights is dedicated to the study of intertextual aspects of contemporary British drama authored by women, the aspects defined by the cultural significance attached to the figure of the ghost. The main level on which the spectral figure is investigated is its deconstructive potential for rupture and openness, offering the space in which conceptual and textual Others can emerge. The ghost comes to signify the processes of being haunted by the past, by other texts, and by those who have been marginalised or silenced. The spectral figure operates as a site of intertextual transposition and transference of memory, trauma, melancholia or loss, binding contemporary drama by women to another time and other texts, breaching its self-sufficiency and destabilising the notions of independent and coherent selves. From the perspective of hauntology, these intertextual processes are perceived as complex and disturbing, provoking a crisis in representation, temporality, or composition. The spectre functions as a figure of this crisis.
Made in Poland
Made in Poland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Polish popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Polish music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Poland and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Poland, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Popular Music in the People’s Republic of Poland; Documenting Change and Continuity in Music Scenes and Institutions; and Music, Identity, and Critique.
Facts are Subversive
'Timothy Garton Ash holds a mirror that magnifies... He writes masterfully and with compassion' - Neal Ascherson, Observer For more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with scalpel-sharp precision, what he has found. Facts are Subversive, which collects his writings since the millennium, addresses some of the crucial questions of our time: what happens to people who have endured long dictatorships when they try to found a democratic state? How can freedom from tyranny be won? How are free expression, equality before the law and equal rights for men and women sustained in a society of different faiths and ethnicities? This is history of the present on a scale by turns panoramic and human: urgent, exhilarating and necessary.
Przeszłość we współczesnej narracji kulturowej. Tom 2
Obfitość tekstów i ich zróżnicowanie stanowią walor niniejszej pracy, bo pozwalają na zapoznanie się z niesłychanym bogactwem tematycznym i metodologicznym. Za to autorom antologii należy się wdzięczność, tym bardziej że omawiane zagadnienia są nie tylko pasjonujące poznawczo, lecz także jak najbardziej aktualne. Publikacja skupiona dość konsekwentnie wokół tematu przeszłości we współczesnej narracji kulturowej jest szeroką panoramą opracowań specjalistów różnych dziedzin reprezentujących rozmaite metodologie i oddaje fascynacje, w większości młodych, naukowców. Tom przybliża Czytelnikowi wiele wątków rzadko podejmowanych w polskiej nauce. Zwraca uwagę staranność w doborze tematów obejmujących realia różnych rzeczywistości, niekiedy nader odległych od spraw polskich, a nawet europejskich. Z recenzji prof. dra hab. Emila Orzechowskiego
Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages. Halbband 2
The present second volume completes the handbook Die slavischen Sprachen "The Slavic languages. Ein internationales Handbuch zu ihrer Struktur, ihrer Geschichte und ihrer Erforschung. An International Handbook of their History, their Structure and their Investigation". While the general conception is continued, the present volume now contains articles concerning inner and outer language history as well as problems of sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, standardology and language typology.
Bander Snatch
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Polish Popular Music on Screen
This book examines the interface between Polish popular music and screen media against the background of Polish history, cinema, and popular culture and situates that interface in a local as well as global context. It looks at Polish musicals, biographical films about musicians, documentary films and, finally, music videos. The author draws attention to the immense popularity of musical comedies in Polish interwar cinema, the enduring appeal of musical genres during the period of state socialism, despite their low status in film criticism, and the re-birth of musicals in the 2010s. Mazierska also discusses the most important stars, directors and authors of songs presented in Polish films, and points to the effect of technological changes on inception and transformation of music-centred genres of screen media, including the effect of YouTube on their growth and preservation. The book is informed by the question of how parochial and universal is Polish popular music and its screen representation.
Ślązaczki
Wywodzący się ze Śląska Jan Cofałka – czując potrzebę przybliżania rodakom regionu, z którego wyrasta (przyłapuję się tu na podwójnym znaczeniu tego słowa: wyrasta w rozumieniu pochodzenia rodzinnego, kulturowego, jak i wychodzenia skądś i wchodzenia w nowe rzeczywistości), dodaje do tomów o współziomkach kolejny – już szósty, tym razem o nieprzeciętnych kobietach. Zasług Jana Cofałki na tym polu nie sposób przecenić. Oceniając poprzednie tomy, podnosili je m.in. pisarz Wiesław Myśliwski, reżyser i pisarz Kazimierz Kutz oraz uczeni zarówno pokolenia średniego (prof. Jan Miodek, prof. Stanisław S. Nicieja), jak i najmłodszego (prof. Lech M. Nijakowski). ...
