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The Postmodern Challenge
This volume is designed to bridge a gap in the current theoretical debate about the nature, scope and relevance of postmodern perspectives in the humanist and social sciences in Eastern and Western Europe. While the debate has been reasonably comprehensive and certainly abrasive in Western European and Anglophone countries, it has signally failed to incorporate the viewpoints of Eastern European scholars and intellectuals. Even the current appropriation of Mikhail Bakhtin as a prophet of the postmodern is, paradoxically, a monologic engagement with his thought rather than a dialogic encounter of cultures. Doubtless different historical experiences, ideology and social aspirations go some way...
Challenging Identities
Identity is a keyword in a number of academic fields as well as in public debate and in politics. During the last decades, references to identity have proliferated, yet there is no simple definition available that corresponds to the use of the notion in all contexts. The significance of the notion depends on the conceptual or ideological constellation in which it takes part. This volume on one hand demonstrates the role of notions of identity in a variety of European contexts, and on the other hand highlights how there may be reasons to challenge the use of the term and corresponding social, cultural, and political practices. Notions of national identity and national politics are challenged ...
(Un)masking Bruno Schulz
Whatever critical scalpel one selects for dissecting the literary works of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), there will always be a certain degree of textual resistance which cannot be broken. Or in other words, taking off one of Schulz’s many masks, one will probably never avoid the impression that a new mask has emerged. This book contributes to the three most typical critical strategies of reading Schulz’s works (combinations, fragmentations, reintegrations) – being fully aware, of course, of the relativity of each particular approach. In addition, the book sets out to explore all of Schulz’s creative output (i.e. his stories as well as his graphic, epistolary and even literary critical w...
Słodko-gorzko
„Inność. Gdyby ktoś zapytał Witalija, jak określiłby samego siebie, użyłby dokładnie tego słowa. Problem w tym, że nikt nigdy nie zapytał”. „Słodko-gorzko” to opowieść o Witaliju, który odkrywa swoją homoseksualność. Powoli, brutalnie, niszczony przez apodyktycznego ojca – konserwatywnego byłego górnika, który aspiruje na stanowisko prezydenta miasta. Zmanipulowany przez księdza zmusza syna do niechcianego małżeństwa, z którego Witalij pragnie uciec. Czy kiedykolwiek pozna kogoś, kto zaakceptuje to, kim naprawdę jest?
Apetyt na literaturę
Tytuł książki, która jest pokłosiem konferencji zorganizowanej z okazji siedemdziesiątych urodzin Jerzego Jarzębskiego, nawiązuje oczywiście do jego Apetytu na przemianę, głośnego zbioru „notatek o prozie współczesnej”, wydanego w roku 1997. Jej powstaniu przyświecała intencja, by okolicznościowe spotkanie stało się okazją do współmyślenia z Jerzym Jarzębskim. Do jej napisania zaprosiliśmy badaczy z kraju i zagranicy, prosząc ich o weryfikację „mapy” rodzimej literatury, którą niestrudzenie kreśli autor W Polsce czyli wszędzie. Dialog ten zaowocował obszernym zbiorem studiów na temat prozy polskiej XX i XXI wieku. Pokazuje on, że rozpoznania Jarzębs...
Bruno Schulz
Presents newly discovered letters and two short previously untranslated theoretical essays by Polish fiction writer Schulz (1892- 1942); an interview with Jerzy Ficowski, the foremost scholar on Schulz; five original interpretive essays; and an approach to his work in the form of a myth. Indexed only by names. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Reading Architecture
Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture? Why rely on literary pieces instead of architectural treatises and writings when it comes to the of study buildings and urban environments? Why rely on literary techniques and accounts instead of architectural practices and analysis when it comes to academic research and educational projects? Why trust authors and writers instead of sociologists or scientists when it comes to planning for the future of cities? This book builds on the existing interdisciplinary bibliography on architecture and literature, but prioritizes literature’s capacity to talk about the lived experience of place and the premise that literary language can often ...
Innovation in the Orthodox Christian Tradition?
The relationship between tradition and innovation in Orthodox Christianity has often been problematic, filled with tensions and contradictions starting from the Byzantine era and running through the 19th and 20th centuries. For a long period of time scholars have typically assumed Greek Orthodoxy to be a static religious tradition with little room for renewal or change. Although this public perception continues, the immutability of the Greek Orthodox tradition has been questioned by several scholars over the past few years. This book continues this line of reasoning, but brings it into the centre of contemporary discussion. Presenting case studies from different periods of history up to the present day, the authors trace different aspects in the development of innovation and renewal in Orthodox Christianity in the Greek-speaking world and among the Diaspora.
The Holocaust in South-Eastern Europe: Historiography, Archives Resources and Remembrance
For many decades, the Holocaust in South-Eastern Europe lacked the required introspection, research and study, and most importantly, access to archives and documentation. Only in recent years and with the significant help of an emerging generation of local scholars, the Holocaust from this region became the focus of many studies. In 2018, under the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure umbrella, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania organized a workshop dedicated to Holocaust research, education and remembrance in South-Eastern Europe. The present volume is a natural continuation of the above-mentioned workshop with the aim of introducing the current state of Holocaust research in the region to different categories of scholars in the field of Holocaust studies, to students and—why not—to the general public. Our scope, not an exhaustive one, is to present a historical contextualization using archival resources, to display the variety of recordings of discrimination, destruction and rescue efforts, and to introduce the remembrance initiatives and processes developed in the region in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Scientific Theology: Theory
The third volume of an extended and systematic exploration of the relation between Christian theology and the natural sciences, focussing on the origins and place of theory in Christian theology
