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Stanisław Brzozowski and the Migration of Ideas
As a writer, critic, and philosopher, Stanislaw Brzozowski (1878-1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. The essays in this volume reassess and contextualize Brzozowski's writings from a distinctly transnational vantage point.
Pharaoh
First published in 1896, 'Pharaoh' is considered one of the great novels of Polish literature. The account of Rames XIII (who never existed) set in Egypt of eleven centuries before Christ, 'Pharaoh' is the timeless and universal story of the struggle for power, no less true for 19th century Poland and today.
The Symphony and Symphonic Thinking in Polish Music Since 1956
1956 was a year of transition in Poland, and an important year for Polish music. This year saw the beginning of a political thaw - sometimes called the Polish October - in communist Poland. It was also the year of the establishment of the 'Warsaw Autumn' International Festival of Contemporary Music. This was a time of great artistic ferment in Polish music, which also deeply influenced symphonic thinking. The year 1956 is thus an appropriate starting point for Beata Boleslawska's study of the contemporary Polish symphonic tradition. Boleslawska investigates the influential Polish avant-garde, illuminating the ways in which new musical means and ideas influenced symphonic music and the genre ...
Phraseology and Culture in English
The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is generally accepted today that a language, especially its lexicon, influences its speakers' cultural patterns of thought and perception in various ways, for example through a culture-specific segmentation of the extralinguistic reality, the frequency of occurrence of particular lexical items, or the existence of keywords or key word combinations revealing core cultural values. The aim of this volume is to explore the cultural dimension of a wide range of preconstructed or semi-p...
Bruckner Studies
This 1997 book presents musicological and theoretical research on the life and music of Anton Bruckner.
The Idea of Absolute Music
This volume examines a single music-aesthetical idea from various historical and philosophical backgrounds. In exploring the origins of the idea and its career over two centuries, it brings to light the variety of ways in which it has affected music.
