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Hybrid Renaissance. Culture, Language, Architecture

Hybrid Renaissance. Culture, Language, Architecture

Author(s): Peter Burke / Language(s): English

Keywords: Renaissance; Italy; Cultural fusion; Court and courtiers; Cities and towns; 5. Borderlands; Civilization—1268–1559; Cultural fusion

The movement we know as the Renaissance used to be regarded as the replacement of one system of ideas and literary and visual conventions (the “Gothic”) with another system (the “Classical”). However, it has become increasingly obvious that Gothic and Classical coexisted for a long time, and also that they interacted, producing hybrid forms not only of thought, art, literature and especially architecture, but also of language, literature, music, philosophy, law and religion. As the Renaissance movement spread outside Italy, to other parts of Europe and also beyond, from Goa to Quito, different local traditions made their contribution to the mix. Given the interest in cultural hybridity long shown by Natalie Davis, this theme allows Burke to pay homage to the work of Davis as well as to explore what was for long a neglected theme in Renaissance studies.

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Polish and English diminutives in literary translation: Pragmatic and cross-cultural perspectives

Polish and English diminutives in literary translation: Pragmatic and cross-cultural perspectives

Author(s): Paulina Biały / Language(s): English

Keywords: diminutives; pragmatics; translation; culture

The book is devoted to the translation of diminutives from Polish and English into English and Polish, respectively. The author considers the pragmatic, cultural and sociolinguistic context of using diminutives in both languages, as well as the linguistic means of forming diminutives by analytic and synthetic mechanisms. The state of research indicates the necessity of conducting a cross-sectional analysis of the problems associated with diminutives, especially the problems associated with the influence of culture upon the occurrence of these elements in a given language. Even though many authors discussed the morphological processes which serve the creation of diminutives, less attention was devoted to the problems of translatorial equivalence of diminutives or to the pragmatic aspects of their use in conversation. The book is intended for linguists, theoreticians and practitioners of translation, researchers of the meeting points of culture and language and sociolinguists.

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Great expectations and interwar realities. Hungarian cultural diplomacy, 1918–1941

Great expectations and interwar realities. Hungarian cultural diplomacy, 1918–1941

Author(s): Zsolt Nagy / Language(s): English

Keywords: Hungary 1918-1945;foreign relations;Cultural diplomacy;Cultural policy;Politics and government;Horthy era;Horthy Miklós;

After the shock of the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, which Hungarians perceived as an unfair dictate, the leaders of the country found it imperative to change Hungary’s international image in a way that would help the revision of the post-World War I settlement. The monograph examines the development of interwar Hungarian cultural diplomacy in three areas: universities, the tourist industry, and the media—primarily motion pictures and radio production. It is a story of the Hungarian elites’ high hopes and deep-seated anxieties about the country’s place in a Europe newly reconstructed after World War I, and how these elites perceived and misperceived themselves, their surroundings, and their own ability to affect the country’s fate. The defeat in the Great War was crushing, but it was also stimulating, as Nagy documents in his examination of foreign language journals, tourism, radio, and other tools of cultural diplomacy. The mobilization of diverse cultural and intellectual resources, the author argues, helped establish Hungary’s legitimacy in the international arena, contributed to the modernization of the country, and established a set of enduring national images.Though the study is rooted in Hungary, it explores the dynamic and contingent relationship between identity construction and transnational cultural and political currents in East-Central European nations in the interwar period.

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Towards Female Empowerment. The New Generation of Irish Women Poets: Vona Groarke, Sinéad Morrissey, Caitriona O’Reilly and Mary O’Donoghue

Towards Female Empowerment. The New Generation of Irish Women Poets: Vona Groarke, Sinéad Morrissey, Caitriona O’Reilly and Mary O’Donoghue

Author(s): Katarzyna Poloczek / Language(s): English

Keywords: Towards Female Empowerment; Irish Women Poets; Groarke Vona; Morrissey Sinéad; O’Reilly Caitríona; O’Donoghue Mary; ecological selves, female gender

This monographic study analyses in depth the poetry written by four most significant Irish authors born in the 1970s. Together with insightful interpretations of the explored poetry, it offers a new reading of philosophy, social and cultural studies, and psychology connected with the subject matter of women’s empowerment. The poetry of Vona Groarke studies resistance articulated in historical terms, as resistance against political domination (colonisation). Sinéad Morrissey questions the expressions of political violence in the North, even those that might directly result from the reaction against the officially sanctioned system of domination. Caitríona O’Reilly analyses the fears that may be considered as existential (the passage of time, death, loss) that contribute to the sense of women’s incapacity. Here O’Reilly’s poetry seems to work like an empowering catharsis: imagining the least desired course of action and facing up to these vision. The poetry of Mary O’Donoghue probes two correlated though not synonymous phenomena: women being the actual victims of masculine violence, and the social mechanism of victimisation of women that ascribes to the female gender the “natural” and “established” role of a Victim. The book constitutes a thought-provoking debate on the up-to-date issues that need to be critically re-examined and re-thought these days. It is an inspiring reading for people interested not only in Irish poetry but in modern literature in general.

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The Brothers Seven. A Tale. Translated into English from the Finnish by Douglas Robinson

The Brothers Seven. A Tale. Translated into English from the Finnish by Douglas Robinson

Author(s): Aleksis Kivi / Language(s): English

Keywords: Finnish literature; Aleksis Kivi; Finland; novel; Seitsemän veljestä;

Seitsemän veljestä (The Brothers Seven), the 1870 Finnish novel by Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872), is one of the most (in)famously unknown classics of world literature—unknown not only because so few people in the world can read Finnish, but also because the novel is so incredibly difficult to translate, the Mount Everest of translating from Finnish. It is difficult to translate not only because it blends a saturation in Homer, Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, and the Bible with a brilliantly stylized form of local dialect, but because it is wild, grotesque, carnivalistic, and laugh-out-loud funny on every page. It has been translated 58 times into 34 languages—but somehow the translations always seem to fall short of their flamboyant original.Douglas Robinson’s new translation is a bold attempt to remedy that. He aims to make Kivi as rhythmic, as alliterative, as brash, as grotesque, and as funny in English as he is in Finnish. Since Kivi deliberately used an archaic Finnish, but used it playfully—and since Kivi was steeped in Shakespeare, to the point of memorizing whole plays—Robinson translates him into a playful Shakespearean register. As he notes in his Preface, this makes the translation a bit difficult to read—but the original is difficult for Finns to read as well, and the Finnish readers who love Kivi (and that is most of them) read him with pleasure despite the words they don’t know, because his prose is so intensely alive.

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Military Secret Part I

Military Secret Part I

Author(s): Vladan Vlajković / Language(s): English

Keywords: military; politics; inter-ethnic relation; war; peace and conflict studies; security; NATO bombing; 1990's; Kosovo; Serbia; Montenegro;

If history teaches us what life is all about, and this is true, then books are testimonies assisting history to show to the next generations where we are and why we have made mistakes instructing us not to stumble twice upon the same obstacle. "Military Secret" is a testimony which came to existence by a concurrence of peculiar circumstances and thanks to my own aspiration to expose entirely and at any cost the position and the role of the top military brass in preservation of an insane regime, alien to both the Serbs and the Montenegrins, at the beginning of the 21st century. Having been drawn into the games of big security services, dragged out of anonymity and motivated by my personal hardships and suffering, but also thanks to good people from the military and the police, I was in a position, amongst other things, owing to kindness of other people, to influence, perhaps, certain currents of history in, judging by everything, now former Yugoslavia. I am aware of the fact that the state is grateful to an individual only while it needs him/her.

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Screening Trafficking. Prudent and Perilous

Screening Trafficking. Prudent and Perilous

Author(s): Yana Hashamova / Language(s): English

Keywords: human trafficking;

This book examines film and media representations of the social, political, and economic issue of human trafficking, one of the most dramatic challenges of today’s globalized world. Hashamova productively combines fieldwork in NGOs in southeastern Europe, social science data, and the analysis of Western and East European anti-trafficking films and media and their reception in the United States and the Balkans. Her book identifies a disconnect between the global flow of trafficking images and their local comprehension. The critical analysis of documentaries, feature films, video clips, and NGOs’ media materials and the responses they elicit from spectators reveals the flaws of these products and the ideological structures present both in them and in their audiences.

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Exploring the virtual world of learning across generations. Information and communications technology for the educational support of immigrant youth

Exploring the virtual world of learning across generations. Information and communications technology for the educational support of immigrant youth

Author(s): Marcin Rojek,Joanna Leek,Petr Svoboda / Language(s): English

Keywords: intergenerational learning; immigrant youth education; information and communications technology; ICT

The book addresses the issue of intergenerational learning in a virtual world created by information and communication technology (ICT) and the role of ICT in an educational environment. In order to discuss how ICT can be used as a means to prevent early school leaving among immigrant youth, this book explores the literature on how learning can be understood in the intergenerational context, the challenges in preventing early school leaving, the prospects for ICT in education and presents the findings of an empirical study on intergenerational learning with the use of ICT. Authors findings highlight that ICT-supported intergenerational learning is a significant sociocultural platform for knowledge exchange, at the same time reducing intergenerational and cultural distance. It creates a sense of belonging and ensures mutual support, and encourages better understanding and harmonious coexistence between young immigrants and older citizens.

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Trade creation and trade diversion under NAFTA. Mexican perspective

Trade creation and trade diversion under NAFTA. Mexican perspective

Author(s): Justyna Wieloch / Language(s): English

Keywords: NAFTA; Mexico; trade integration; WTO classification; Mexico’s exports and imports

The monograph is devoted to an in-depth and multithreaded analysis of the effects of trade integration of countries with different levels of economic development. It presents the results of research on the profitability of international trade liberalization from the perspective of a less developed country. An example is the North American Free Trade Agreement – unique in the world due to the asymmetry of development of the economies of the participating countries. An assessment of the impact of integration on Mexico was presented based on extensive literature and empirical studies. The publication is one of the first scientific studies in Poland presenting such a comprehensive investigation of economic integration processes on the North American continent.

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Categories and Units in Language and Linguistics

Categories and Units in Language and Linguistics

Author(s): Alan Cienki,Kamila Ciepiela,Craig Callender,Henryk Kardela,Krzysztof Kosecki,Przemysław Krakowian,Ourania Papadima,Jana Richterová,Nezrin Samedova-Hajiyeva,Jacek Tadeusz Waliński / Language(s): English

Keywords: descriptive grammar; cognitive grammar;phonological oppositions;semiotic systems;lexical semantics

The papers in this volume concern different linguistic categories from a variety of perspectives. The first and second papers by Janusz Badio deal with evaluation in EFL written stories and the linguistic coding of events in agreement with their variable salience in conceptualisation. The chapter by Alan Cienki analyses gesture units to draw conclusions about language in general. Kamila Ciepiela looks at the category of identity as a product and process. Craig Callender presents a chapter on the perception and the nature of the phoneme followed by a chapter by Henryk Kardela, who discusses how meanings and forms are fused into single morphological units. Krzysztof Kosecki turns the readers’ attention on the prototype of narrative and emotion in E. Hemingway’s story Cat in the Rain and on the analysis of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. Przemysław Krakowian’s interesting article explains the role of Multi Facet Rash Analysis in tests of oral production. Ourania Papadima expertly overviews the very important categories of second language pedagogy, ESP and EAP. Jana Richterova provides an analysis of resource books for advanced learners of English. Nezrin Samedova-Hajiyeva’s chapter centres on the grammatical category of aspect. Last, Jacek Waliński describes the categorization of directional verbs in English.

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The Role of Regions in EU-China Relations

The Role of Regions in EU-China Relations

Author(s): Adriana Skorupska,Justyna Szczudlik,Joanna Ciesielska-Klikowska,Michał Gzik / Language(s): English

Keywords: EU-China relations; paradiplomacy; EU foreign policy; regional studies

More and more regions are cooperating with their Chinese counterparts in many different areas: economy, environment, culture, academic exchange. Although the subnational dimension has started to be a visibly important element of EU-China relations, this trend is not reflected in the academic literature on EU-China relations. Until now, we have not known what the network of contacts with China at the regional level looks like and what the determinants and institutional forms of inter-regional partnerships there are.The present book maps Sino-European relations at the regional level and presents a detailed analysis of subnational contacts in the six analysed EU member states, illustrated by case studies of interesting regions from each country. It shows the rising role of non-state actors in international relations, the growing importance of paradiplomacy, as well as the necessity to look at the EU-China relations as a multi-layer phenomenon, engaging different types of actors on different levels.

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Kosova: Separate Worlds. Reflections and Analyses 1998

Kosova: Separate Worlds. Reflections and Analyses 1998

Author(s): Shkëlzen Maliqi / Language(s): English

Keywords: Kosovo 1990s; Arts in Kosova; Kosovo conflict; Yugoslav wars;

Published in 1998 by Dukagjini Publishing House (Prishtina) // "I had not planned to write this book. It gathers a number of articles that deal with current (1998!) aspects of the problem of Kosova and the Balkan crisis in general. The selection of articles is perhaps not as representative as it could have been; out of hundreds that I have published since the mid- 1980s to today, included in this book are only those that were translated into English. Still, I hope that this selection of articles will be useful to specialists dealing with the Balkan crisis and the Albanian question, as well as to journalists and those interested in learning more about the essence of the processes underway. // For those with a wider interest, I have included two texts that deal with Kosova's art scene in the 1990's as well as an interview containing autobiographical references and information in which internal political and spiritual currents among Kosova Albanians overlap." (Shkelzen Maliqi)

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From Villány to Tokyo

From Villány to Tokyo

Author(s): Gábor Rekettye / Language(s): English

Keywords: Transnational Lives ; academic; biography; cold war; diplomat; Gabor Rekettye; Hungary; Japan; migration; professional; Tokyo;

“I was born at the end of World War II, and so I was young in the ’60s. This means that I belong to the so-called (at least in Hungary) ‘great generation’. Young people of this generation, especially in America and Western Europe, rebelled against the existing system, showing their dissatisfaction by protests, new types of music and by outrageous clothes and behaviour. We – here and in the other socialist countries – experienced this, only because of the limitations of the repressive system, in a much gentler way. I have never been a rebel myself, and yet what tied me to this great generation was my desire to know the world much better, to be more informed than the average, to be a real cosmopolitan. That is why I studied languages and travelled much more than most.”

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Thought Experiments in Ethics

Thought Experiments in Ethics

Author(s): Gusztáv Kovács / Language(s): English

Keywords: thought experiments; ethics; philosophy;moral theology;

In this book, Kovács looks at the role of thought experiments and intuition in ethical reasoning through examples from fiction, biblical parables, and academic philosophy. The volume provides professors of ethics with a practical toolkit to discuss abstract moral questions through stories and imaginary scenarios in lecture halls, and to reach out not only to the minds, but also to the hearts of their students.

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Various Dimensions of Place in Language Studies

Various Dimensions of Place in Language Studies

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: contrastive linguistics; place; conceptualisation; pragmatics;language contact;

The book serves as a collection of articles concerning different approaches to the notion of ‘place’ in terms of contrastive studies. Out of eight articles, the first four concentrate on the place of conceptualization in languages. Next two contributions discuss the notion of ‘place’ from a more literal point of view, concentrating on the role of case and prepositional systems in the expression of place as well as on the concept of place from the pragmatic point of view, as discursive representation of places in Polish and American cultures is analysed. The third part of the book contains two articles focusing on language contact. Each of the above-mentioned contributions provides an inspiring approach to contrastive studies and further research.

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The principle of satisfying the living and social needs of the employee in the company's sources of law

Zasada zaspokajania bytowych i socjalnych potrzeb pracownika w zakładowych źródłach prawa pracy w odniesieniu do rodzicielstwa

Author(s): Krzysztof Walczak,Barbara Godlewska-Bujok / Language(s): English,Polish

Keywords: labour law; employee social needs; employee subsistence needs; child caregivers benefits; flexible working time

The monograph, appreciated by specialists in the fields of social policy and labour law, introduces a new area of knowledge in the field of labour law and allows for an empirical assessment of the types of policies applied by enterprises in the area of parental benefits. The approach proposed by the authors allows us to assess the expected path of changes in the regulation of this sphere of employment relations. The combination of various research perspectives with the relevance of this research and its social significance can constitute a contribution to the development of legal and other social sciences and help in the practice of business management. The publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Poland license (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode).

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Engraved Gems from Tbilisi, Georgia. Volume III: The Natsvlishvili Family Collection

Engraved Gems from Tbilisi, Georgia. Volume III: The Natsvlishvili Family Collection

Author(s): Paweł Gołyźniak / Language(s): English

Keywords: Natsvlishvili Family collection; Tbilisi; products of glyptics; Georgia

This book presents nearly 200 objects of glyptic art from the Natsvlishvili Family collection, Tbilisi, Georgia. Their cultural, geographical and chronological diversity is considerable starting from the Near Eastern cylinder and stamp seals as well as amulets, through the Egyptian scarabs, Greek and Roman intaglios and cameos, the post-classical gems and contemporary forgeries. This eclectic collection was a base for an essay on the subject of how to differentiate genuine ancient engraved gems from their modern copies, pastiches and forgeries. That essay is an introduction to the detailed analysis of the objects discussed in the catalogue section. Overall, it is confirmed that the cabinet contains products of the local glyptics as well as the imported ones to the territory of Georgia from all over the world through ages. The book also gives a valuable insight into the role of Tbilisi as a hub for exchange and trade in antiquities and works of art in the second half of the 19th and 20th century.

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Historic revisionism, Hate Speech and Violence Against Serbs in 2021

Historijski revizionizam, govor mržnje i nasilje prema Srbima u 2021.

Author(s): Tihomir Ponoš,Nikola Vukobratović / Language(s): English,Croatian

Keywords: Hate speech in Croatia; Serbs in Croatia; BBB support group; Chetnik movements; Pantovčak; Revisionism; Incidents in Vukovar; verbal intimidation; Discrimination;

The Bulletin before you gives an overview of events in 2021 that were motivated by prejudice, intolerance and hatred of Serbs in Croatia. It goes beyond the framework of official statistics, making use of a series of more or less familiar events to show how society breathes, thus bearing witness to an atmosphere that is very much present, yet is not always visible in numbers, nor publicly recognised and acknowledged as problematic. In fact, things need to be told like they are — in Croatia, even today, deep into the 21st century, Serb ethnic origin is still subject to intolerance and hate. The reactions elicited by the messages, sentences, drawings and other expressions of hatred towards Serbs, that is, most often their absence, or indeed denial of the problem, are no more than burying our collective heads in the sand and downplaying the significance of such expressions. This way, the moment when new generations will be able to grow up without having to learn not to accept the other merely due to their ethnic origin, is in increasing abeyance. This is why the exceptional value of this overview lies precisely in its power to raise awareness of the problems faced by people around Croatia merely because they or their family members are, or are even just assumed to be, Serbs. Likewise, this Bulletin can serve as a kind of traffic-light warning for all those tasked with bringing about positive changes, including by all means the relevant ministries — of the Interior, Justice or Education, as well as the State Attorney's Office and judges, not omitting politicians at all levels — with clear indicators of the deviations that in a democratic society should not have the status of acceptable patterns of behaviour.

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Re-Shaping Culture and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction: Salman Rushdie and Abdulrazak Gurnah

Re-Shaping Culture and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction: Salman Rushdie and Abdulrazak Gurnah

Author(s): Sennur Bakirtas / Language(s): English

Keywords: Salman Rushdie; Abdulrazak Gurnah; Literature; Identity;

One of the most fascinating, rapidly developing, and difficult areas of literary and cultural studies today is postcolonialism. Focused on postcolonialism and designed especially for those studying postcolonial studies, Re-Shaping Culture and Identity in postcolonial Fiction: Salman Rushdie and Abdulrazak Gurnah introduces key subject areas of concern such as culture and identity in a clear accessible and organised fashion. It provides an overview of the development of postcolonialism as a discipline and takes a close look at its important authors, Salman Rushdie and Abdulrazak Gurnah, and their selected oeuvres, Fury, Midnight’s Children, By the Sea and Memory of Departure. With a palimpsestic analysis of culture and identity as crucial features of postcolonial texts, Re-Shaping Culture and Identity in postcolonial Fiction: Salman Rushdie and Abdulrazak Gurnah argues how postcolonialism functions in allowing the formation of a new perspective on the contemporary world. Besides, it offers an alternative perspective on their works, one that promotes the importance of the issue of postcolonial agency. This book will prove invaluable to anyone studying English Language and Literature, Migration Studies, and Cultural Studies.

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Russian-Polish-English dictionary of economic and commercial terminology (with definitions and indexes)

Rosyjsko-polsko-angielski słownik terminologii ekonomicznej i handlowej (z defnicjami i indeksami)

Author(s): Sergey Khvatov,Volodymyr Dubichynskyi,Vladimir Medvedev / Language(s): English,Russian,Polish

Keywords: lexicography; dictionary; commerce; economy; Russian language; Polish language; English language

The Dictionary is a trilingual comprehensive description of more than 30,000 terms and terminological phrases from the field of economics, business, commerce, marketing, finance, used in Russian, Polish and English business communication.The Dictionary has an educational focus, which consists in the parallel description of specialized vocabulary in Russian, Polish and English with a demonstration of the lexical compatibility and word-formation capabilities of the terminological units.The Dictionary is addressed to a wide range of users – businesspeople, managers, economists engaged in foreign economic activity, as well as interpreters and teachers. It is also of undoubted interest for undergraduate and graduate students of economic specialties, Russian, Polish and English philology, and applied linguistics.

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