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The Polish Formalist School and Russian Formalism
Revising his 1999 doctoral dissertation for the University of Chicago, Karcz explores the Polish Formalist School of literary theory and analysis, which had already sprouted when Russian Formalism was silenced as heresy by Stalinist pressures in 1930, and the relationship between the two movements. He begins by discussing the anticipations of Polish Formalism, then focuses on the work of Kazimierz Woycicki (1876-1938), Mandred Kridl (1882-1957), and other primary theoreticians and practitioners. Excerpts are in English. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
NATO Enlargement and Central Europe
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Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West
Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century, but its relation to Western literary scholarship is complex. This book sheds light on the entangled histories of exchange and influence both within the region known as Central and Eastern Europe, and between the region and the West. The exchange of ideas between scholars in the East and West was facilitated by both personal and institutional relations, both official and informal encounters. For the longest time, however, intellectual exchange was thwarted by political tensions that led to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe being isolated from the West. A few literary theories nevertheless made i...
Running the Gauntlet of Anti-Semitism
During the war, Checinski (who was born in Łódź in 1924) participated in the Łódź ghetto resistance. He was interned in the Gleiwitz labor camp and survived a death march. This book deals with his personal experiences after the war. Pp. 18-167 focus on antisemitism he and his family encountered in Poland, despite his status as a high-ranking officer in military counterintelligence. Recounts events during the antisemitic campaigns of 1956-58 and 1967-69. Checinski and his family emigrated to Israel in 1969 and then went to the U.S. in 1976. However, his encounters with antisemitism continued. At Harvard he found that at least some professors tended to conceal their Jewish origins. In 1982 he returned to work at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1984 he taught at the U.S. Army Russian Institute (USARI) in Germany (in 1993 USARI was integrated with the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies as one of its divisions). There, too, he encountered antisemitism and discovered that antisemites (including Holocaust deniers) were protected by their bosses and were not rebuked or dismissed. Pp. 286-304 contain photographs and documents.
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The Political Economy of Interwar Foreign Investment
France was interwar Poland’s main ally, and the biggest source of the country’s foreign investment. The two roles were closely connected: Paris used its position in Warsaw to win preferential treatment for its firms, while Polish authorities depended on France to finance their modernization policies and military spending. The relationship’s asymmetric character bred conflict, and in the 1930s dissenting voices compared French actions in Poland to imperialism and colonial expansion. This book untangles the complex mix of economics, policy, and politics in Franco-Polish relations. Based on government and company-level sources, it evaluates the part played by French capital in Poland and ...
Citizenship and Identity in a Multinational Commonwealth
This work is an attempt to change thinking not only on the political practice and the role of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in a European context (both East and West), but to also connect the early modern past with present notions of citizenship and participatory political systems.
