Bücher der Reihe Polish Studies - Transdisciplinary Perspectives

The book analyses 20th century Polish literature in the contexts of queer theory, psychoanalysis and modernism studies. It presents readings of well-known authors and furthermore offers theoretical ideas relevant outside the Polish context.

The book is the last volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821¿1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of Norwid¿s oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the moral and spiritual condition of man or his place in the world and history, and seeks to answer universal questions. The volume includes articles devoted to the analysis of selected sources and inspirations underlying Norwid¿s work, as well as comparative texts tracing the manifestations of the commonality of thoughts and views connecting Norwid with the leading writers and artists of different periods. As a result, we received a multi-faceted image of an artist who, on the one hand, was strongly rooted in the tradition and modernity of Western European culture, and on the other, was characterized by great openness and sensitivity to otherness and cultural diversity.

The ethnographic research into death rituals and food practices in the Polish-Belarusian borderland shows that the symbolic boundaries between the Catholic and Orthodox believers are dynamic and situational. The religious identity of the residents is shaped by social relations and norms more than by the institutional frames of both churches.

The book is devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. Norwid addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the moral and spiritual condition of man. The book contains an extensive selection of contributions by eminent researchers, which represent different approaches to the poet's work.

By using the perceptions of divorce, single motherhood, domestic violence and aborion as examples, the book answers fundamental questions pertaining to the processes of negotiating mentality shifts in communist Poland in the years 1956-1989.

The monograph describes the history of the Polish diaspora in the Habsburg monarchy in the historical, institutional, legal, political, and organizational context. The main object of study is the Poles' active involvement in the Austro-Hungarian parliamentary life and state administration.

In this first comprehensive study of Plato's conception of justice, the recognition of human dignity plays a crucial role for understanding the individual in relation to the law and state. Plato's philosophy turns out to provide foundations for modern-day human rights protection rather than for totalitarian approaches.

Central Europe, 1914-1918. A broad vista of the lives of the inhabitants of the border zones between Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary during the Great War. The ordinary man's struggle to survive against the background of political and military affairs during the First World War, and in the comparative European context.

The book describes the functions of water in Polish towns against a European background from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the Early-Modern Era. The main topics include the quality of water, the town and the river, wells and water supply systems. This is the first broad comparative presentation of the subject in Polish and European literature.

This book is the first monograph that provides a wholesome overview of the history of Antisemitism in Poland. The author critically analyzes the Polish manifestation of the gruesome phenomenon against the backdrop of historical events in all Europe, as she traces the formation of the ideology and its difference from Judeophobia.

The author analyses the inter-confessional relations in selected territories in a longue duree perspective, between Reformation and Enlightenment, going beyond a simple juxtaposition of tolerant and intolerant states to conduct an analysis of political, social and ideological conditions determining the level of religious tolerance.

This book analyzes the patron-client relationship over both space and time. It covers such areas of the globe as Europe, Africa and Latin America, and such periods in time as ancient Rome, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Poland, and twentieth-century America.

The book is devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors, whose oeuvre addresses timeless issues, such as the moral and spiritual condition of man or his place in the world and history. The book contains an extensive selection of contributions which represent different approaches to the poet's work.

The volume considers various themes related to interactions between the culture of the book and politics in Polish history. Each of the fourteen authors deals with a different topic, chronologically starting with the beginnings of the early Piast monarchy in the 10th century, and bringing the discussion up to contemporary times.

The book presents a synthetic outline constitution of the Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth from 16th to 18th century, the realities of political life, organization of the judiciary, economy and defense, coexistence of different ethnic groups and religions, conditions of life, high and popular culture and achievements of art, science and literature.

The book provides a panorama of Italian migrants' activities in Polish economy, political life and culture. The motivations of Italians to travel to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and often settled there permanently, the reasons which made this migration possible as well as the difficulties in their adaptation are described.

The book focuses on the presentation of basic figures of memory that are present in the twenty-six novels by the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch. This study shows how memory is crystallized in the Jewish experience of nature and in the reality shaped by people, as well as in the reception of the biblical and historical events to which the author refers.

The history of Polish associations in Germany is an example that demonstrates - amongst others - growth and expansion. This book is intended to fill, to a certain extent, the gaps in the sociological literature on Polish organisations in Germany. It aims at describing the situations in which nongovernmental organizations that associate Poles residing in Germany find themselves.

A work of literary scholarship that examines Bialoszewski's artistic praxis as a certain philosophical proposition. It demonstrates how Bialoszewski's radical approach to poetry evolves into a consistent life-writing and life-philosophy.

Examines Kapuscinski's reportage books, products of the author's travels to distant lands, regarded by some as exempla of mastery in nonfiction genre and by others as ethically questionable semi-fictional stories. This book looks at the process of aesthetic formation of his travel experiences.

This book analyzes unobvious relations between historical definitions of the face and its contemporary usage in popular culture and social media, like Facebook or Instagram. The authors focus on both metaphorical and material meanings of the face and grapple with crucial questions about modernity, modern and postmodern subjectivity.

The main theme and objective of this work considers the evolution of the Irish attitude towards Poland and the Poles during the first half of the nineteenth century, and advanced Irish-Polish relations, emphasising the place of the Polish Question in the process of shaping modern Irish nationalism.

The book focuses on the interpretation of linguistic strategies of interaction between the sacred (the metaphysical world) and the profane (the physical world) in Polish folklore. An analysis of linguistic and ritual behaviour in the context of the origin myth reveals the use of symbolism common to many cultures of the world.

This study shows the literary legacy of Boleslaw Lesmian, the great Polish writer, as an example of inter-literary and inter-cultural transfer of aesthetics, styles, genres, motifs. The volume explores American, French, Russian, Ukraininan contexts (Poe's, Goglol's, Pushkin's, Baudelaire's, Balmont's, Gorodetsky's, Jesienin's writing) of his work.

This book is devoted to the religiosity of the medieval Christian masses in Central and Eastern Europe and its relationship with the traditional cultures of that time. The author addresses such topics as the common instruction of the three prayers and the Decalogue, "Christian" magic in everyday life and images of heaven and eternal damnation.