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Być w mniejszości. Być mniejszością

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

The authors of the articles represent various scientific centers, diverse fields of knowledge; and view the issue of minorities from different perspectives. They want to speak on behalf of all who, for various reasons, are on the margin of majority groups. According to Albert Camus, the writer's role is to defend the excluded who have been deprived of that accusatory voice. Harold Pinter wants to discover “reality through art” to rebuild human dignity. These actions are intended, as Emma Goldman pointed out in her essay under the telling title “Minorities versus Majorities”, to “divide and break up” the majority, because “always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.” This advocate of women’s rights and sexual freedom does not want to express contempt for the common people, but rather draws attention to the driving force of a thinking human being, ready to change a rotten and unfair system for a truly democratic society of free people: “the living, vital truth of social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.”Tomasz Kaczmarek

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Poeci-studenci podziemnego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego wobec romantyzmu

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

The book is a successful attempt to renew research on the literature of war and occupation conducted so far, and at the same time to present the phenomenon of the underground University of Warsaw and its educational, academic, and cultural activity in particular with regard to literary studies. The authors describe the profiles of young artists for whom the ideas of Romanticism were a constant point of reference in their writing and in the armed combat against the occupier.

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Szkoła Główna. Kręgi wpływów 2

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

The book is a continuation of the research on Szkoła Główna (the Main School). The authors of the articles collected in the publication pose questions about the conditions and the nature of the intergenerational exchange in that higher-education institution, as well as the ways and the extent in which the academic ideals, the value system and the intellectual attitudes formed there influenced the social milieus in the Kingdom of Poland and beyond.

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Doświadczenie duchowości. Konteksty filozoficzno-literackie

Author(s): Anna Walczak,Artur Jocz / Language(s): Polish

We have made philosophy and literature the subject of our intellectual research, because they, apart from religion, also claim the right to an intellectual and artistic exploration of the experience of spirituality. Therefore, we discuss the experience of spirituality in a philosophical and literary context. We did not want to reconstruct any theory that would free the object under study from the unknowability and ambiguity attributed to it by the interpretative tradition. Our intention is much more modest: we want to talk about the experience of spirituality in two languages: the philosophical and the literary. The first part of the book is therefore characterized by a greater degree of generality of the formulated considerations, whereas the second part focuses on the analysis of the literary experience of spirituality, i.e on its artistic visualizations. First of all, we write about a certain significant potential of literature, which manifests itself in transcending its narrowly understood poetic function. It boils down to the will to artistically grasp a category that has always been associated with religion and philosophy – spirituality and its experience. In this way, a unique intellectual bridge is built between the general and the specific. From the Introduction

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Sylvia Plath: Flying Suicidal

Author(s): Elena Ciobanu,Bogdan C.S. Pîrvu / Language(s): English

The biopsycholiterary joint partnership between a professor of literature (Elena Ciobanu) and a clinical psychiatrist (Bogdan C.S. Pîrvu) was meant to diagnose the condition of a poet (Sylvia Plath) who, with a comorbid borderline personality disorder, had a bipolar II disorder that drove her to commit suicide. In equally specific, because technical, terms, the biopsychosocial approach extrapolated from narrative medicine was made to come complete mostly with strategies borrowed from literary phenomenology and designed to explore the Artistic Personality on its own premises, and occasionally with psychotherapeutic tools that are conveniently adept at dealing with mental disorders and family relationships. In mundane terms, this book is not a biography proper; it is an open-minded account of the intricate entanglements of poetry, personality and mood, perceptively and cautiously intent on behavioural, affective and cognitive changes, on the impact any such fluctuations might have had on the art of Sylvia Plath.

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Podróż, ucieczka, wygnanie w dawnych literaturach romańskich

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

The texts included in the volume describe travel as a literary phenomenon and as one of the basic human experiences. They present the analysis of works, often not known to a Polish reader. They also include texts from different periods, show distict perspectives and research methods as well as real and imaginary travels in time and space.

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Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Roma Education

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

The book is the first attempt in Europe within the last 20 years to bring knowledge about the Roma educational issues of preschool and primary school children. It is structured in three parts: History of Roma education, Romani psycholinguistics and Roma Holocaust education. The first part of the book deals with the educational issues of Roma and its development during the last 20 years in Europe. Here the author presents some insight? views and understandings? of Roma education, development of the Roma school mediators and a review of the introduction of Romani language education in Bulgaria. The second part discusses mainly the issues of language education of Roma children – the acquisition of Romani and the issues of second language learning by Roma children. The third part presents the issues of Roma holocaust education as a part of the history education of Roma children.The socio-cultural and linguistic issues are important for Roma children education and with the new ideas the book can be very helpful for students in the field of intercultural education, educational psychology and social work.

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Język w działaniu i działania na języku. Szkice semantyczno-słowotwórcze

Author(s): Krystyna Waszakowa / Language(s): Polish

The book comprises 16 articles concerning word formation and lexical semantics, representative of the Author’s forty-year work. The articles tackle theoretical issues, classifications, methods of description within the adopted framework, they also provide analyses of selected problems, illustrated with ample data excerpted from dictionaries and corpora. The book holds particular interest to anyone concerned with the contemporary Polish language, as well as to specialists in Polish philology or Slavic studies.

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Linije koje ti nazivaš rijekema

Author(s): Amir Alagić / Language(s): Croatian

The short story collection The Lines Which You Call Rivers contains both short stories and novellas that testify about Amir Alagić's true talent manifesting itself through authentic narratives, strong images, and daring, rich figurative expressions we have already had the chance to experience in his novels The Sacravenges and Hundred Years' Childhood. Alagić is a master narrator, his reality is tangible, odorous and visible, the events multi-layered and refined with symbolism. The twelve stories, that depict different periods and places, the old age and wasted youth, the devil, curse and madness, show us that Amir Alagić is an important name in our literature, and we should read his works. Amir Alagić was born in 1977, in Banja Luka. So far he has published the novels The Sacravenges (2016), Hundred Years' Childhood (2017), and Tunnels (2019), and the short story collections Under the Same Sky (2010), and The Lines Which You Call Rivers. He published short stories and poems in various literary magazines and anthologies. He wrote a screenply for the short feature film Toying, or a Broken Water Heater (2012). He lives in Pula.

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Stogodišnje djetinjstvo

Author(s): Amir Alagić / Language(s): Croatian

In his debut novel The Sacravenges, Amir Alagić already showed his deep understanding of human soul. There he also elevated the art of description to the highest level, reaching the innermost depths through the exterior surface. In his second novel, Hundred Years' Childhood he ventured farther in developing his art. This time the stage of human drama is the Croatian city of Pula. The time spans across the whole century encompassing not only the contemporary period, but also the First and Second World Wars. The city becomes a real theatrum mundi, an intersection of destinies of different nationalities, where each life becomes a story in itself, and whose familiar localities testify about the transience of life. Amir Alagić was born in 1977, in Banja Luka. So far he has published the novels The Sacravenges (2016), Hundred Years' Childhood (2017), and Tunnels (2019), and the short story collections Under the Same Sky (2010), and The Lines Which You Call Rivers. He published short stories and poems in various literary magazines and anthologies. He wrote a screenply for the short feature film Toying, or a Broken Water Heater (2012). He lives in Pula.

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Splot. Szkice o poezji polskiej, rosyjskiej i żydowskiej

Author(s): Marian Kisiel / Language(s): Polish

This collection comprises texts on poets and poems that are interwoven in numerous ways: be it historically, biographically, or literarily. The Polish, Russian, and Jewish authors discussed – some of whom belong to all three categories simultaneously – are gathered in this study based on coincidence, exception, and necessity. These include: Emil Zegadłowicz, Jerzy Liebert, Anna Akhmatova, Rachel Boymvol, Solomon Bart, Tadeusz Różewicz, Adam Czerniawski, Andrzej Busza, Anna Frajlich, and Ewa Lipska. The coincidence relies on their encounter on the pages of this book; the exception – on their relation to language or its rejection, the place of their own or its loss, nationality or its change, if not refusal; the necessity, in turn, embraces the fact that each of the authors is under the impression of being thrown into the 20th century, this so-called “futile time,” when one is bound to confront one’s biography as if it belonged to someone else, and to treat other biographies as the most intimate ones. The knots of biographies and works result in an unexpected surprise, both encapsulated in the poems by the author, and rediscovered by the reader.

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Wstyd i duma. Tom 1. Generalia i kontrasty w badaniach nad konceptualizacją przeżyć samoświadomościowych w języku polskim (na tle porównawczym)

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

The monograph explores the role of language in expressing, recognising and experiencing the feelings of shame and pride as elements of emotional situation. It develops models for understanding such experiences (on the basis of lexical corpora), focuses on providing answers to questions concerning the research on language conceptualisation of feelings and presents the findings of professionals (especially psychologists) about the features, valuation and typology od self-awareness experiences, confronting this knowledge with the results of the research on various languages.

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La figure du Juif errant dans la prose française du XXe siècle

Author(s): Piotr Kamiński / Language(s): French

The present monograph constitutes a semiological and semiopragmatic analysis of the figure of the Wandering Jew in selected French prose works dating from the 20th century (five texts altogether). Its overriding subject-matter is to determine to what extent the conventional pre-designation is reflected in the analysed novels presenting the immortal vagrant, but also to verify if the axiom of the so-called “death of the myth” is indeed well-founded and if it is present in the contemporary French literature. In the publication, has also been indicated a net of correlations which occurs in the reading process between the analysed character and a reader. Therefore, the other essential goal of the study was to look into the narrative system so as to describe to what extent ‒ and if at all ‒ narrative procedures applied in the analysed prose works determine a potential anti-Semitic overtone and reception of the Wanderer.

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Дискурсивная перспектива в лирической поэзии: Опыт жанровой грамматики / Perspektywa dyskursywna w poezji lirycznej. Zarys gramatyki gatunku

Author(s): Gennadij Zeldowicz / Language(s): Russian

The major message of this book is that lyrical poem tends to be split into two very dissimilar parts, one of which is empirical, while the other strives towards transcendence. Closely inspected are dialectic relations between them, as well as their typical distinctive features.

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Metafizyka poznania lingwistycznego

Author(s): Grzegorz Pawłowski / Language(s): Polish

What is linguistic cognition and how does it relate to metaphysics? All the threads of this book revolve around this question. One of these themes is crucial: the rational soul and its cognitive powers. Another but no less important theme is the diagnosis of what linguists call (the sense of) communication. In this understanding, communication is viewed predominantly in relation to abstract concepts.

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Liryka Mickiewicza. Uczucia. Świadectwa. Ekspresje

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

The volume includes the works seeking new interpretations and existential, axiological and subjective contexts in Mickiewicz’s lyric poetry. The articles are testimony to contemporary interpretive and methodological tendencies. The authors attempt to answer the question of how Mickiewicz’s poems codified the dynamics of various transformations and different understanding of transgressions.

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Prije kabura – mrak

Author(s): Feđa Gudić / Language(s): Bosnian

“Before death – darkness” in 24 short stories illuminates a whole spectrum of human nature and inclinations: it includes silent righteous, noble, invertebrates, thugs, indifferent villains, comrades, people on the last frontier of common sense. In this collection, every reluctant tick, twitch of eyelid or body speaks more about interpersonal relationships than exalted dialogue or surprising twists. And no matter how much they lack great works of Promethean proportions, Zaim, Hasan, Asim, Meho the Butcher, Dr. Crnac still get a space where all the human spirit with a lot of humor comes to life in everyday, almost trivial earthquakes, in which they themselves are so realistically portrayed that someone may say with certainty that their existence and action are not so much imaginary as witnessed. And the ease of language and expression with which it is witnessed - in addition to keeping the reader's attention on the most important, difficult to perceive details - is the greatest value of such stories. Yet the latent melancholy behind that humor cannot and must not be overlooked, a kind of disappointment that hovers over every optimistic, promising start. That is why there is darkness before everyone's grave, whether in the background or not, with which no one manages to maneuver constantly or to hide from. The sensitivity of this collection is in the darkness that is briefly - in certain moments of absurdity and laughter - forgotten.

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Rodeo u Donjem Vakufu

Author(s): Zoran Plavšić / Language(s): Serbian

Zoran Plavšić writes about conductors, caterers, peasants, soldiers, old teachers, Roma, neighbor's children and he treats all of them with equal respect, understanding and empathy. In short, he loves all their flaws and is able to present them to the reader so that he loves them too. Plavšić's stories in a beautiful way continue the tradition of Serbian realistic short stories, they feel the influence of Glišić, Kočić, Ćopić, and even Stanković, but this is not about imitation, but about mutual respect for the “little man” and his destiny. And there is something else in his stories worth mentioning, and that is the belief that it is the usual, everyday and seemingly irrelevant in our everyday life and our immediate environment at the same time and what makes most of our days, what, when the line is drawn, is our life, and that it is precisely what seems irrelevant to us that connects us with people from all meridians. The struggle to make ends meet, aging, transience, unfulfilled expectations, all our personal struggles are at the same time the struggles of millions of other people, and the story of one of us is actually the story of all of us.

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U jarku

Author(s): Slađana Nina Perković / Language(s): Serbian

When the heroine of this novel, who also played the role of narrator, is run into the room by her mother and interrupted by watching her favorite crime series, the readers begin to discover the almost insane and chaotic world of the story, made up of events like the funeral of Aunt Stana, drowned with a piece of chicken, and thus shattered plans to sell the family home and land, a world filled with unusual visits to police stations and clinics, heroes who unsuccessfully attempt suicide, those who erect monuments to themselves years ago or experience a personal renaissance after deciding to enter the world of smuggling . With each new page, Slađana Nina Perković more and more picturesquely builds a novelistic world that is built on the display of everyday life, only that everyday life, with extremely sharp language and with a negligible dose of dark humor, is moved almost to the limits of absurdity and grotesque. One funeral and sale of a family home and land, these events that we almost automatically perceive as tragic or shocking, in this novel are transformed into the ridiculous that serves us not to ignore tragedy and reality, but to more easily understand the whole picture of the world we are the part itself.

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Vrapci u oluji

Author(s): Ninoslav Mitrović / Language(s): Serbian

The novel “Sparrows in the Storm” is set in eastern Serbia in the 1920s and follows the story of Bogdan Prvulović, a returnee from the Great War, who in post-war Serbia tries to make ends meet and feed his family by doing various jobs and cultivating the land. But, as in every post-war period, this time the situation is controlled by those who took positions during the war and acquired property, through smuggling, bribery and similar activities. Faced with a situation from which he sees no way out and an offer from a former war comrade that he cannot refuse, Bogdan will make a choice that will change his life fundamentally. “Sparrows in the Storm” brings a story as old as the world itself, it is a story about wrong choices, remorse, the inability to return to the old and finally revenge, and one that does not bring calm, but must be carried out.

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