Series:Communicare - historia i kultura

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The Speaking Lion. Essay on the Verbal Limits in the Expression of Human Experience

Lew, który mówi. Esej o granicach językowego wyrazu doświadczenia

Author(s): Paweł Majewski / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: experience; literature; language; speaking; voice; Lebenswelt; Minotaur; Howard Phillips Lovecraft; Stanisław Lem

The book is devoted to the issue of alienation. The author argues that the linguistic and textual perspective in which a human perceives reality makes its numerous and various manifestations be recognized as inaccessible to man and excluded from the possibility of establishing the communication relation. He discusses the ways of expressing some extreme, often boundary experiences by means of the literary language used in the European and American 20th-century prose. In the analysis, cultural, anthropological, literary and psychoanalytical tools are used.

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Celebration of Language: Studies in Relations between the World, the Word and the Human Mind

Święto języka. Szkice o relacjach między światem, słowem a umysłem ludzkim

Author(s): Paweł Majewski / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: modern literature; atomism; skepticism; psychosis, anthropology of literature

The book consists of seven chapter-studies. The first one features an extensive analysis of Genezis z Ducha by Juliusz Słowacki, the second is an interpretation of letters written by Arthur Rimbaud from Africa, the third deals with The Letter of Lord Chandos by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the fourth – with The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco, the fifth – with the Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, the sixth – with some rarely noted aspects of the philosophy of Democritus and of Greek skepticism, while the seventh is an attempt at comparing the account of the psychosis of the elderly Daniel Paul Schreber with the mystical states of Emanuel Swedenborg.

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Mythology of Slavs

Mitologia Słowian

Author(s): Aleksander Gieysztor / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Slavs; mythology; Slavic deities

The mythology of Slavs understood as a system of allegories, symbols, personifications, presenting the attitude of man to the world. For more than 20 years, it has been a teaching aid in many university courses. The new edition includes, among others, the footnotes and bibliography prepared partly by Aleksander Gieysztor, partly by Aneta Pieniądz and the publisher on the basis of the material retained in the author’s posthumous legacy.

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Archaeology of worrying. Old Polish almanacs in action

Archeologia zatroskania. Staropolskie kalendarze w działaniu

Author(s): Ada Arendt / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: old Polish culture; history of reading; astrological almanacs; microhistory; cultural history; time; literacy

An analysis of Old Polish astrological almanacs that combines various scholarly traditions, such as elements of microhistory, anthropology of print and literacy, or the sociological theory of time. The author focuses on an anthropological understanding of the cultural practice and its implications for the functioning of memory, rationality and self-reflection, as well as the perception of time.

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The life of objects in post-war Poland

Życie rzeczy w powojennej Polsce

Author(s): Agata Zborowska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: objects; images; post-war period; shortage; looting; social conceptualizations

An analysis of the role and meaning of objects in the post-war period of shortages. The book makes use of official documents, diaries and memoirs, fiction, films, photographs, posters, treated as sources of knowledge on the ways of functioning of objects and their perception. Three case studies organized around the category of "found", "guest" and "new" objects illustrate the relations between objects and subjects.

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The Past as an Object of Knowledge

Przeszłość jako przedmiot wiedzy. Historia i filozofia w myśli średniowiecza

Author(s): Krzysztof Pomian / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: medieval European history; medieval chronicles; historiography; Middle Ages; intellectual culture; branch of knowledge

The publication portrays the process of the shaping of modern concepts defining history as an academic discipline. The author moves beyond the issues of the formation of historical studies by presenting the changes in the social and world-view fabric which accompanied this process and conditioned it.

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The Past as an Object of Faith. History and Philosophy in Medieval Thought

Przeszłość jako przedmiot wiary. Historia i filozofia w myśli średniowiecza

Author(s): Krzysztof Pomian / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: medieval European history; medieval chronicles; historiography; Middle Ages

A cross-sectional look at the structure of medieval thinking, in particular considering its impact on historiography. The author shows, using among others the example of two medieval chronicles and their later reception, how in the Middle Ages the Augustinian attitude to dealing with sources (the absolutisation of first-hand testimony) turned into admitting the interference of reason, which laid the foundations for future historical studies.

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Writing, text, literature. Writing practices of ancient Greeks and the matrix of European cultural memory

Pismo, tekst, literatura. Praktyki piśmienne starożytnych Greków i matryca pamięci kulturowej Europejczyków

Author(s): Paweł Majewski / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: impact of antiquity; classical Greece; cultural memory; writing practices; European culture

An attempt at interpreting the history of Greek culture according to the principles of media theory, of constructing local models of culture dynamics emerging under the influence of the means of communication, especially writing practices. The book upholds the theory that Greek writing constitutes a matrix of cultural memory for all of European culture, in line with the concept of Western culture originating to a great extent in antiquity.

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An act of remembrance. The Akathist tradition in the context of forms of memory

Akt pamięci. Tradycja akatystowa w kontekście form pamięci

Author(s): Aleksandra Jakóbczyk-Gola / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God; Akathist tradition; media of words; elements of Orthodox worship

The book identifies complex characteristic features of the media tradition of Akathists, based on the example of the text of the Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God and its performances as part of worship. An analysis of the complex functions fulfilled by the Akathist in serving the aims of remembering – often characterized by heterogeneity, accomplished in different ways and playing different roles. The Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God with its accompanying icon was one of the fundamental elements of Orthodox worship, influential also outside the Orthodox Church, e.g., in Polish territories.

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The Logic of Writing and the Society Organisation

Logika pisma a organizacja społeczeństwa

Author(s): Jack Goody / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: history of writing; logic of writing; writing and culture; writing and religion; writing and state organisation

One of the best and most interesting works of Goody, examines the influence of writing on culture, especially at its institutional level. Providing numerous examples drawn from the Middle and Far East, West Africa and Medieval Europe, the author presents the logic of writing and the formulas it introduces into the organisation of society. He also shows general changes, follows how religions, economy, state and law are formed under the influence of writing and acknowledges the beginnings of the rules that govern these fields now.

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Do books cause revolutions? Sketches from the history of the book, reading and writing culture

Czy książki wywołują rewolucje? Szkice z historii książki, lektury i kultury piśmiennej

Author(s): Roger Chartier / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: book history; reading history; literary culture; electronic book; ebook

A selection of texts by Roger Chartier, a French historian, dedicated to the history of books and reading. The dissertations concern the changes in writing culture and its contemporary adaptations. In addition, the publication contains Chartier's reflections on reading processes in the era of electronic texts, as well as the social impact of the book.

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Computers, Novels and Silent Cinema. Remediation Processes from a Historical Perspective

Komputery, powieści i kino nieme. Procesy remediacji w perspektywie historycznej

Author(s): Jerzy Stachowicz / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: remediation; silent cinema; literature; film novel; new media; internet; print; medium

Remediation is the transformation of cinematic works as a result of their media transposition. Utilizing tools offered by media studies, film studies and culture studies, the author examines the changes which accompanied the transformation of silent cinema into digital cinema, as well as cinema’s relationship with the book and the ways in which these two mediums mix and influence each other. The analyses are based on two films: Strong Man and Metropolis, presenting the path of cultural texts starting with the book, continuing through silent cinema, and up to digitized cinema and film work currently found in the web.

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The Triumph of an Amateur. On Social Textual Practices in Electronic Media

Tryumf amatora. O społecznościowych praktykach tekstualnych w świecie mediów elektronicznych

Author(s): Krzysztof Gajewski / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: electronic media; digital media; streaming practices; literature and global media; literature and the Web; literature and internet

The monograph discusses computer media from the perspective of literary criticism and cultural anthropology. It analyses in depth phenomena such as: fake news, internet memes, the authorship of Wikipedia, the functions of accounts in social media, the practices of live streaming, simultaneously using the methodology of traditional literary criticism. Many textual occurrences are connected with participation practices through computer media on the Web.

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Meddah – Turkish Theatre of One Actor. The Meeting of Oral Tradition and Performance Culture

Meddah – turecki teatr jednego aktora. Spotkanie tradycji kultury ustnej z kulturą widowiskową

Author(s): Agnieszka Aysen Kaim / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: theatre of one actor; Meddah; performative art; Turkish theatre between the 11th and 19th century

The monograph explores performative potential of narrative art in oral traditions of Altai and Middle Eastern culture. Turkish meddah inspires contemporary artists, offering an active model, equal for both the artist and the audience. As an artistic form it developed between the 11th and 19th century. It unites epic theatre of one actor with the elements of tradition of a nomadic narrator, Central Asian shaman, epic singer ozan, Arabic maddah and the Persian tradition of the narrator of The Shahnameh.

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Sincerity: The Emergence of a Modern Model of Communication

Szczerość. O wyłanianiu się nowoczesnego porządku komunikacyjnego

Author(s): Agata Sikora / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: sincerity; modernity; identity; epistolography; history of emotions

The process of moving on from a ritual concept of communication to communication based on sincerity. A description of the transformations of European culture, coupled with an analysis of the changes taking place in Polish epistolographic practices in the 17th century and in the beginning of the 18th century, among others, using the example of the Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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History and memory

Historia i pamięć

Author(s): Jacques Le Goff / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: history; history theory; memory

Le Goff presents his own ideas and other contemporary concepts of history. He deliberates on the theory of history and historiography, inscribing their issues in the history of ideological and scientific disputes. He looks for continuity and similarities in the transformations of historical knowledge throughout the history of civilization. This book preceded one of the most important discussions today - the debate on memory and history. Le Goff was actively involved in this discussion until his death, contributing to a better understanding of the story itself. Without Jacques Le Goff, it is impossible to imagine modern historiography [...], he not only writes about fascinating things, but he does it in an interesting way, ensuring that the recipient of his books is anyone interested in history, not just a professional historian (From the Introduction to the Polish edition).

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Sentimental memory. Practices of memory in the circle of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Science and in Puławy owned by Izabela Czartoryska

Pamięć sentymentalna. Praktyki pamięci w kręgu Towarzystwa Warszawskiego Przyjaciół Nauk i w Puławach Izabeli Czartoryskiej

Author(s): Hanna Jurkowska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Izabela Czartoryska; Warsaw Society of Friends of Science; cultural memory; souvenirs; Puławy; sentimentalism

The author analyzes the nineteenth-century practices of memory mediated by the art of words, by writing, print, image, body and ritual, inscribed in landscapes and building spaces, on the examples of the activity of scientists from the Warsaw Society of Friends of Science and the first museum in Poland, founded in Puławy by Izabela Czartoryska.

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How societies remember

Jak społeczeństwa pamiętają

Author(s): Paul Connerton / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: collective memory; social memory; rites of commemoration; bodily practices

The publication of the famous British sociologist Paul Connerton was written in a very clear manner, it is short but extremely rich in content. It deals with many issues and refers to at least a dozen trends in research on memory. Cultural memory studies appear in the light of Connerton's considerations as a "non-paradigmatic" and "transdisciplinary" undertaking, based on sociology, history, psychology, literary criticism, anthropology, political science and many other disciplines. For the first time the publication appeared in 1989 in the prestigious series „Themes in the Social Sciences” published by Cambridge University Press. Since then, it has been published in eighteen subsequent editions, and has been translated into many European and Asian languages.

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Julian Ochorowicz's Self-Economies of Writing. Everyday Writing and Research Practices of the Psychologist

Autoekonomie zapisu Juliana Ochorowicza. Codzienne praktyki piśmienne i badawcze psychologa

Author(s): Agnieszka Sobolewska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Julian Ochorowicz; self-economies of writing; psychology; writing practices; introscpection

The book is the first attempt to comprehensively examine and describe the daily writing practices of a Polish psychologist Julian Ochorowicz (1850-1917). More than one hundred notebooks of the scientist, now stored in the archives of the library of the Ossoliński Institute in Wrocław, constitute an extraordinary and so far unexplored source of knowledge about his intimate writing practices. The author proves that the method of introspection, crucial for the psychologist and understood as constantly repeated turning towards oneself, made it possible for Ochorowicz to choose his own research path and, consequently, to abandon the well-trodden paths of scientific development.

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Museums–Pretexts

Muzea-preteksty

Author(s): Łukasz Bukowiecki / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: city; museum; negative heritage; memory; Warsaw

The book presents unrealised museum projects, which were conceived in the context of the 20th century breakthrough moments for Warsaw as pretexts for physical transformation and symbolic interception of buildings perceived as “negative heritage”. Such museums were meant to exploit and transform the buildings whose future was the subject of public debate.

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