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ON THE DISPLAY IN AN ACADEMIC BOOKSHOP IN WARSAW. ON THE MARGINS OF CAMP (O oknie wystawowym ksiegarni im. Boleslawa Prusa. Na marginesach campu)

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Kulas J.
Kwartalnik Filmowy
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2009
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issue 66
60-70
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The authoress presents a critique of a Christmas display of the 'Wydawnictwo Literackie' (Literackie Publishing House) in the window of the Boleslaw Prus academic bookshop in Warsaw, in 2008. She uncovers the subversive dimension of the display, that offers clients books as Christmas gifts. The source of this subversion is in the main element of the display - a mirror. The purpose of the advertisers was to place the advert in the context of Christmas, to use the Christmas atmosphere and its basic attributes in order to increase sales. However the display has the potential to criticize the mechanisms of the market economy and consumption present in the contemporary world. The advert becomes a caricature of the Utopia of the Free Market, in which the client not only can but must choose. The necessity of consumption - the hidden structure of trade - defines the character and confines of people's lives in contemporary world. Camp, according to the authoress, defines a strategy of perception, which causes one to take a critical stance. Camp is a tool of stripping the illusions present in the prison camp of consumption in which people find themselves.
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MYSTERIOUS POLISHB TOWNS (Tajemnicze miasta polskie)

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Kulas J.
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2008
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vol. 62
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issue 3-4(282-283)
65-70
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The presented essay contains a historical-literary outline of Polish adaptations of 'Les mysteres de Paris' by Eugene Sue during the second half of the nineteenth century. The authoress analysed 'Tajemnice Warszawy' (The Mysteries of Warsaw, 1908) by A. W. Koszutski, 'Tajemnice Krakowa' (The Mysteries of Cracow, 1870) by Michal Balucki, 'Tajemnice Nalewek' (The Mysteries of Nalewki, 1889) by Henryk Nagiel and 'Tajemnice Warszawy' (The Mysteries of Warsaw, 1887) by Bojomir Boncza within the context of the development of popular literature. The article indicates the fundamental elements of the genre: the fairy-tale structure with a morally satisfying end, the one-dimensional protagonists, the didactic commentaries and frequent passages addressed to the reader, the motif of love and money as the prime motor forces of the plot, the expanded dialogues and, first and foremost, the specific feature of mystery in the depiction of the city, the protagonist and their past. By resorting to the instruments used by the sociology of literature, the authoress proposes a critique of the assessment of the Polish mystery novel undertaken by Józef Abhors, and sketches the mechanism of the functioning of this genre of popular literature. In doing so, she shows the method of involving the reader into the course of the narration by means of a created illusion of reality, and thus discloses its persuasive strategy.
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