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Englishness Revisited
This book discusses selected works of literature written in Great Britain in the final decades of the twentieth century in the context of contemporary debates on English national and cultural identity. It investigates how Peter Ackroyd, Julian Barnes, and Adam Thorpe address the issue of Englishness and how they revisit its traditional formulations
The Central and the Peripheral
Representing reality in terms of secure, familiar centres and dangerous, lesser known peripheries is one of the most elementary human cognitive instincts. However, we live in a world where this established division is becoming more and more problematic. One person’s periphery can be another’s centre, and many simple geographies of the world and of the mind, clearly separating the known from the unknown, have become obsolete. How can one reconcile this complexity with the fact that human thinking cannot escape the centre/periphery dichotomy? How is it possible to find one’s way in a world in which peripheries become centres, and centres turn into peripheries? The chapters of this book try to determine how the problem of centres and peripheries has been dealt with in the domains of literature and culture. The contributors focus on different aspects of the issue – from travel writing, through attempts at mapping the self, to finding central and peripheral territories in narrative itself.
Art of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland & the Republic of Ireland in 20th-21st Centuries and Polish-British & Irish Art Relations
Art of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland & the Republic of Ireland in 20th–21st Centuries and Polish–British & Irish Art Relations is the fifth volume of Studies on Modern Art and a first book of this kind in Poland.The volume presents research on British and Irish art conducted mainly by Polish scholars. So far, the research on British art in the 20th century – in comparison to the research on modern French, German, Russian, Italian and American art – has been taken up only sporadically. The greatest number of Polish publications have concernedpost-war British art, while there is almost no publication devoted to interwar art. No research on Irish art has been ...
Dziewięć odsłon literatury brytyjskiej
Tom jest antologią dziewięciu esejów poświęconych wybranym aspektom nowoczesnej i ponowoczesnej literatury brytyjskiej. Oparta na idei E pluribus unum koncepcja „odsłon" z jednej strony sugeruje bogactwo całości, czyli literatury Wysp Brytyjskich w XX i XXI wieku, niemożliwe do ujawnienia w jednej prezentacji, a z drugiej wskazuje na fascynującą różnorodność tematyczną i formalną tej całości oraz uzasadnia wielość możliwych spojrzeń i perspektyw badawczych. Eseje dotyczą przede wszystkim (choć nie tylko) powieści jako głównego gatunku literackiego XX i XXI wieku i zmierzają od „faktu" historycznego lub literackiego ku świadomości literatury jako „fikcji",...
Figura domu
Figura domu. Szkice o najnowszej anglojęzycznej literaturze emigrantów z ziem polskich i ich potomków w Kanadzie analizuje najnowszą, anglojęzyczną literaturę polskiej grupy etnicznej oraz potomków emigrantów z ziem polskich w Kanadzie. Twórczość ta rozwija się dynamicznie w ostatnich latach, a szczególny jej rozkwit można zaobserwować od 2010 roku. Tytułowa figura domu to zarówno oś analityczna wyznaczająca różnorodne podejścia do pojęcia domu, jak i metafora poszukiwania przynależności i zakorzenienia w Kanadzie. Wśród autorów, których twórczość została poddana analizie, znaleźli się pisarze znani i nagradzani – Ewa Stachniak, Andrew J. Borkowski i Kat...
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Prague Biennale Photo 1
Now in its fourth edition, Prague Biennale relaunches itself to include the first edition of Prague Biennale Photo. From painting and photography to performance and installation art, this year's large-format edition tracks the most significant aspects of Central European art and beyond. It includes a foreword by the biennial directors, essays by curators and information about the artists included in each section.
Sebald's Jews
"This first sustained exploration of Sebald's engagement with Jews and Jewishness challenges his position as German "speaker of the Holocaust" by revealing that, despite his intentions, his figural treatment of Jewish characters perpetuates harmful stereotypes. German writer W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) has been hailed, together with Primo Levi, as the "prime speaker of the Holocaust," a breathtaking claim that casts Levi, survivor of Auschwitz, and Sebald, progeny of the German perpetrator generation, in an unlikely pairing that confirms Sebald's status as the preeminent German writer concerned with the Jewish experience in recent history. Recipient of a Koret Jewish Book Award for his "extraord...
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