Professor MARIUSZ KULESZA (1950-2014) PROFILE AND SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS
PROFESOR ZWYCZAJNY DR HAB. MARIUSZ KULESZA (1950–2014) SYLWETKA I DOROBEK NAUKOWY
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More...Keywords: feminism; women’s literature; women’s press; inter-war period; history of literary criticism; Joanna Krajewska; Jan Strzelczyk
The article concerns the relationships between terms, frequent in Polish literary criticism, such as “women’s literature”, “women’s press”, “women’s writing”, “literature written by women” and ”Feminist literature”. The author discusses three research books that have been published recently in which slightly different categories have been applied and which, at the same time, focus on the female element of cultural texts. In addition, the author points at multiple tendencies, frequently dissimilar and distinct, in the approach to the relationship between gender and the text. At the same time the author emphasizes a certain disposition manifested by researchers to employ the gender category to judge literary works. Hence, it seems to be quite justified to reopen the Jy women to show them in a new light. The same applies to the surrounding discussions on relevant titles — just as it is the case with publications by Joanna Krajewska, Jerzy Strzelczyk and Kamilla Łozowska-Marcinkowska.
More...Keywords: Joseph Woelfl; Michał Kleofas Ogiński; polonaise; piano concerto; pianist
Joseph Woelfl, an Austrian pianist and composer, was born on 24th December 1773 in Salzburg, where he began his musical education. In 1790 he left his hometown for Vienna, most probably following Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He can’t have stayed there long as in 1791 he was admitted for service at Prince Michał Kleofas Ogiński’s estate, where he spent about fifteen months. Prince Ogiński is remembered in the history of music mainly as the master of the stylised polonaise. The short cooperation with Woelfl bore fruit in their artistic activities, as Prince Ogiński created his first stylised polonaises during that time. Similarly, Woelfl was inspired by Polish surroundings. During his stay in Warsaw he created „Polonaise”, which became part of his sonata, marked as Fw 7 by Margit Haider-Dechant in the Joseph Woelfl. „Verzeichnis seiner Werke”, which was probably performed during a public concert in the capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1792. The Polish dance must have made a great impression on the Austrian composer, as Polonaise in the form of a rondo reappeared in his musical output in the third movement of Piano Concerto No. 1 op. 20, published in Paris nearly ten years later. Neither Joseph Woelfl nor above mentioned Piano Concerto op. 20 are currently popular in Poland. Thus, I would like to have a closer look at the piece, paying particular attention to the third movement „Rondo à la Polonaise” and at the same time referring to the mutual inspirations of the Austrian and Prince Michał Kleofas Ogiński.
More...Keywords: universalism; national culture; Central Europe; modernism
Opposition between the notion of universalism, created in the age of Enlightenment and the Romantic tradition, which dominates in Central Europe is discussed in the article. Universalism is understood as the process of emancipation of man, but at the same time, in countries ‘between Russia and Germany’ it is also understood as the rule of adherence. In the Romantic tradition there is the symbolic extrapolation of historic experiences and the use of metaphors that have ethical universalism, both of which are described by the author in this article. The understanding of culture as a spiritual sphere which unites the national spirit was destroyed in the 20th century due to totalitarianism, but this grotesque tragedy from our absurd history has created ‘anti-modern modernism'.
More...Keywords: biography; economy; Gdańsk; identity; transformation
Nowadays, in humanities there is a strong tendency to create specific biographies. Mentioned opuses are not focused on well-known people but on famous cities, which are considered as still developing and changing places. Cities consist of different elements and phenomena like architecture, culture, economy and literature. This new way of creating biographies was shown by a German author Peter Oliver Loew. In his book, Loew presented Gdańsk as a strong and free city, which did not lose its identity and functioned like a Hanseatic polis.
More...Keywords: autobiography; concepts of identity; reflexive pronoun; Roma Sendyka; theories of subjectivity
The article is on overview of the newest monograph by Roma Sendyka. In her book Od kultury “ja” do kultury “siebie”. O zwrotnych formach w projektach tożsamościowych the scholar discusses the concept of subjectivity, which happens to be lost in translation, but also significantly distinguishes concepts of I and self. The author of the monograph references research in many fields of humanities and the neurosciences, brings different meanings to evoked terminology, discusses translation proposals and confronts them with literary examples.
More...Keywords: biography; collective identity; memory; oral history
In her case study of two frontier towns – Krzyż (Kreuz) and Żółkiew (Żowkwa, Nesterow) – Anna Wylegała presents a story of resettlement and Polish-Ukrainian or Polisch-German relations in perspective of several generations of respondents. Based on collected narrative interviews, the authoress constructs the models of collective memory, characteristic for selected places. As Wylegała shows, based on the analysis of the research material, memory and non-memory depend on many factors such as politics of memory, economy, pre-war ethnic composition and circumstances of resettlement and journey to “regained territories”. Anna Wylegała, basing on methodology of many humanities subdisciplines and social sciences, analyzes the differences in the adaptation process, constructing narratives of identity, suppression of trauma and closing the experience of resettlement. In the monography Przesiedlenia a pamięć, theories of memory are competently connected with empiricism of biographical method.
More...Keywords: contemporary female autobiography; family narration; autobiographical essay; family in social-political and private space
The article is about Dom na Rozdrożu by Ewa Bieńkowska and concerns problems with contemporary female autobiography written ‘inside family.’ The author of the article interprets this flashback narration, which is actually autobiographical essay, by posing questions about such issues as: family relations – especially cultural and social discourses of female family connections – also individualism, subjectivity, emancipation and experiences of performing family members as well as in private space.
More...Keywords: women’s writing; exile; migration; feminism; postcolonial studies
The subject of the article is work by Bożena Karwowska The Second Sex in Exile. Experience the Story of Migration in the Postwar Polish Writers, established as a result of long study of the different variations and works of women’s writing in exile and is a successful attempt to systematize the problems of exile in the work of women. The article indicated that the starting point for discussion by the researcher of the migration experience in the work of postwar Polish writers is the thesis with clear differences between exile stories of men and women. The article noted that the book by Bożena Karwowska is marked by a strong feature of the individual, for it is written from the perspective of an immigrant. The work fills an important gap in the research literature of exile, points to new perspectives of its reading, using the latest research achievements of feminism and postcolonial studies.
More...Keywords: Sławomir Buryła’s Tematy (nie)opisane; Holocaust literature; Polish prose after 1939
The presented article is a text of the book by Sławomir Buryła entitled Tematy (nie)opisane. This monograph by a literary historian from Olsztyn focuses on analyzing three significant motifs appearing in publications about the Holocaust. As the title ‘topics (un)described,’ that is ones which still demand literary scholars’ detailed reflection, Buryła recognizes: the history of the Jewish ‘Kolumbowie’ – ‘young Jews and Poles of Jewish descent who during the war squared up to fight with the Nazi death machine’; ‘the New Eldorado’ – the literary theme of seizing Jewish possessions and Jewish gold; ‘the portrait of the torturer’ – showing the theme of the Nazi murderer in Polish prose written between 1939 and 1989.
More...Keywords: anthropocentrism; symmetrical archaeology; ruins; material culture; postmodernity; “turn to things”
In his new book In Defense of Things, Norwegian archaeologist Bjørnar Olsen attempts at transgressing the anthropocentric paradigm, still present in modern humanities. Such an approach greatly corresponds with historical, archaeological and literary research on the (in)visibility of material objects, which has been recently gaining popularity amongst Polish scholars (so called turn to things). This review points out to the connection between Olsen’s theory of symmetrical archaeology and the concept of non-anthropocentric humanities, developed by i.a.: Ewa Domańska. It also discusses Olsen’s own efforts to put this interdisciplinary scientific use of objects to practice (as a part of his “Ruin Memory Project”) and compares them to a similar study conducted by his Polish translator Bożena Shallcross. The brief account on reception of the book in Poland is also included.
More...During the 20th century the number of states increased four times. About 40 states existed as – the same subjects of international law, in spite of numerous territorial, demographic or political changes. As for Poland, it is still a matter of discussion whether the Second Republic was legally the same state as the First Republic which collapsed at the end of the 18th century or a new state. The process of disintegration of states (secessionist movements) was much stronger than the process of their integration. The greatest changes on the political map of the world were a result of decolonization.
More...Keywords: the Turks; Poles; migrants; cultural assimilation; national identity
The essence of the article is the analysis and description of social problems accompanying the existence of the Turks and Poles on exile. There is shown a short history of mutual relations, the size of the Turkish population in Poland, their national identity and elements of cultural assimilation in the foreign environment related to their social and economic lives. Particular emphasis is put on presenting the Turks and Poles in a foreign cultural environment.
More...Keywords: blessed Bogumił;Dobrów;Uniejów;development of the cult;relics
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The Church in Poland in 1939-2003
More...Keywords: basketball; coaching; ethnography; work; talent
This essay considers the competing ideologies of hard work and natural talent when talkingabout sporting greatness. Dispelling the myth of the “racial gift” is one of the aims of ScottN. Brooks’s 2008 ethnography, Black Men Can’t Shoot, a study of Philadelphia high schoolbasketball that suggests athletic mobility has more to do with mentoring and networkingthan skill, aesthetics or self-expression.
More...Keywords: after gernmans artefacts; warchitecture; deconstructing the myth of „wicked German”; regional references to polish- german past; civic practices of german memory
Researches on the regions constitute cognitively important role, because just the regions today form the basis for identifying identities. On the characteristic of Polish regions was imposed the fact of postcommunism succession and lack of “open” regional politics during communism. Currently is visible and ongoing (in different intensification) process, connected with recovering the subjectivity of regions. Theirs multilateral opening and such – phenomena as progressive pluralization of memory of the past, promotes openness to multiculturalism. It can significantly has affected on positive changes in approaches into german heritage in North and West regions of Poland. It doesn’t mean that no counterattacks into it are not present. Dualism and dynamic of this oppositional activities creates today’s, heterogeneous in this respect- regional reality in North and West part of Poland.
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