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Българската поезия през 90-те години на XX век и културната памет

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Gołek-Sepetliewa D.

Slavica Lodziensia

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2018

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vol. 2

211-218

SR

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The purpose of the article is to discuss the issues related to Bulgarian poetic works of the 1990s as a medium of cultural memory. Theoretical findings regarding the relationship between literature, memory (A. Nünning, A. Erll) and cultural memory (J. Assmann, A. Assmann) in literary science research have been presented. Тhe current literary studies in the field of relations between the Bulgarian poetry of the 90s and its connections with the past, cultural memory and tradition (P. Doynov, P. Antov) have been discussed. Various roles which Bulgarian poetic works (A. Ilkov, P. Doynov, Z. Zlatanov, P. Antov, B. Bogdanov, G. Gospodinov, B. Penchev) play in the field of the culture of memory have been described: dominate incorporating/refreshing the glorious and eminent national past into the structure of poetic texts, conducting a dialogue with the literary tradition in the form of rewriting it and redefining its meanings, holding a discussion with the national cultural heritage, updating places of cultural memory. It turns out, that poetic texts have the ability to create, reconstruct, affirm and transform memory, propose new versions of memory and form reflections taking place in the area of cultural memory.

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Theoretical and methodological discussion on social and cultural memory in international perspective

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Nycz G.

Central European Papers

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2020

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vol. 8

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issue 2

45-64

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The following text is centered on theory and methodology of memory studies in international perspective. The text explains the differences between focus and scope of various approaches to memory studies, those relying mostly on collective experience, those discovering cultural memory and the approach centered on the social dimension of the latter. The aim of the paper is to give a short introduction to key research accomplishments in the area of memory studies and to present short account on the critically disputed important international cases of high importance of memory in world politics. The paper presents various methodological paths to study memory as a part of social, cultural and collective experience, focusing on current international discussions regarding how past may impact present global relations. The presented methodological orientations are both contributing to better understanding of the construction of the past in public/ social area and to the knowledge on conscious efforts of controlling the selected chapters of history to serve the national (or ideological) purpose.

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Birth Rituals and Cultural Memory of Albanian Diaspora in Ukraine

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Dugushina A.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2019

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issue 16

89-100

EN

The article is devoted to the traditional birth rituals of Albanians of Ukraine reflected in their cultural memory. Several migrations from the South Albania since XV-XVI century, following by different geographic, political, ethnic and sociocultural surroundings influenced a lot Albanian traditional culture but ritual practices related to the human birth, still take a special place in the cultural memory of the Albanian diaspora. Memory on ritual practices related to the birth is mostly based on contrasting the past and present that illustrated by rituals related to the folk obstetrics and beliefs about protection, health and well-being of a mother and a child. Specificity of birth rituals is interpreted by bearers of tradition as representation of the group’s identity in a multiethnic environment in the South Ukraine and as a way for Albanians to save and transmit their culture.

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Powrócić do początku, czyli jak kultura maskuje swoją zmienność?

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Kajfosz J.

Sprawy Narodowościowe

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2015

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issue 46

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Return to the beginnings, or how culture masks its changes? The aim of this essay is to describe cognitive mechanisms on which imagined intersubjectively important continuities and discontinuities in culture are based, and thus allow creating and transforming collective identities. The author uses tools of phenomenology and semiotics to provide answers to a few questions concerning cognitive mechanisms of memory and symbolic violence as well as the ways in which culture can change and adapt to current socio-political needs. These issues pertain also to nation and national identities. Powrócić do początku, czyli jak kultura maskuje swoją zmienność? Celem przyczynku jest próba odpowiedzi na pytanie, na jakich kognitywnych mechanizmach opiera się konstruowanie wyobrażonych, intersubiektywnie ważnych ciągłości i nieciągłości w kulturze, będących podstawą tworzenia i przetwarzania tożsamości zbiorowych. Posługując się narzędziami fenomenologii i semiotyki, autor chce dostarczyć odpowiedzi na następujące pytania: Na podstawie jakich kognitywnych mechanizmów pamięć – wraz z jej społecznymi ramami – może się dostosowywać do aktualnie ważnych społeczno-politycznych potrzeb? Na jakich kognitywnych mechanizmach opiera się przemoc symboliczna? W jaki sposób kultura potrafi eliminować pamięć o własnych przemianach? – Propozycje zawierające się w artykule wskazują na retoryczny (perswazyjny), legitymizacyjny i światotwórczy – czyli pragmatyczny – wymiar konotacji, a zwłaszcza „zgęszczeń konotacji” nazywanych przez R. Barthesa mitem. Podstawową funkcję eksplanacyjną w odniesieniu do pytań o kognitywne mechanizmy społecznego konstruowania przeszłości (inaczej: „początku”) oprócz konotacji mają tu takie kategorie, jak percepcja magiczna i myślenie magiczne.

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Paměť jako ars a vis

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Assmann A., Soukup J.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2013

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vol. 61

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issue 1

56-61

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Translation of the chapter „Das Gedächtnis als und ” from the book „Erinnerungsräume. Formen und Wandlungen des kulturellen Gedächtnisses” by Aleida Assmann

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Persisting Abscences: The Socio-political Dynamics of a Desaparecido in Post-dictorial Brazil

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Quintão Guerra L. E.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2021

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issue 13

55-68

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The construction of memories following the last Brazilian dictatorship is as plural as the number of social actors implicated and as fluid as political circumstances can be. From investments on institutionalized forgetting to the creation of policies of memory, governmental initiatives affected the way society processed the acts of terror perpetrated by the military regime (1964–1985). The development of such initiatives, however, cannot be understood without accounting for the persistent struggle of victims’ relatives and human rights’ advocates. This paper aims to reflect on the Brazilian post-dictatorial mnemonic conflicts by observing how different levels of memory interacted with the political sphere in the process of coping with political disappearance. Drawing on relatives’ testimonies regarding the disappearance of Fernando Santa Cruz and the institutional mechanisms developed by different governments, this text intends to demonstrate how State-sponsored absences during the dictatorship are constantly being (re)constructed according to social and political circumstances of the present.

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„I pójdzie ze mną do Lwowa, to znaczy do trumny”. Przedmiot jako strażnik pamięci o Kresach

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Dubaniewicz A. M.

Przegląd Kulturoznawczy

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2012

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issue 2(12)

119-140

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This article identifies the forms of updating and constructing the memory of the Eastern Borderlands through material objects, referring to Jan Assmann’s concept of cultural memory, memory of the things and the process of exceeding places from the space. These considerations are supported by the statements of the formerly residents of the Eastern Borderlands taken from interviews conducted by me in 2010–2012 in Lower Silesia. Described objects as earth, spoons, rugs and Christmas decorations create symbolical, but based on the living memory milieux de mémoire in contrast to the objects placed in the chambers of memory and museums of Borderlands, which are institutionalizing and typing in the historical process the image of Borderlands, being a lieux de mémoire according to the concept of Pierre Nora.

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Bourdieusian Gap: Re-Reading the Concept of Habitus in the Light of the Theory of Culture

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Winiarski P.

Zoon Politikon

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2018

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issue 9 Special Issue

178-199

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The article shows the possibilities of using Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical achievements on the basis of Jeffrey C. Alexander’s strong program in cultural sociology. The author tries to solve the problem of reductionism by reinterpreting the Bourdieu’s key concepts in the spirit of Yuri Lotman’s semiotic theory of culture. Lotman’s understanding of culture, including the reproduction and creation, allows to explain not only how the structures affect the individuals, but also how individuals use the structures.

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Sarmatism as Europe’s founding myth

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Orzeł J.

Polish Political Science Yearbook

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2010

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vol. 39

149-157

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“More and more phenomena are assuming a political dimension, and the surrounding world of politics is beginning to overwhelm us. Despite its grounding in rationality, and despite efforts to adapt it to the changing forms of social life, it systematically yields to derealisation. The key notions in this area, such as liberty, equality, democracy, raison d’état, revolution, counter-revolution, are becoming increasingly disconnected, receive variegated explanations and interpretations in political practice, are readily subject to manipulation.” Cultural myth expresses a collective, emotionally charged belief in the veracity of a conceptual content, a memory, and simultaneously provides a model, a set of rules for social behaviour. Leszek Kołakowski draws attention to the ubiquity of mythological thinking in contemporary culture in which it addresses the universal need to find meaning and continuity in the world and its values. Myth is then a particular mode of perception, cognition, and understanding of reality, part of man’s mentality, his national and cultural identity.

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O konieczności powstania warszawskiego. „Kinderszenen” i „Widma”

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Kobielska M.

Pamiętnik Literacki

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2013

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vol. 104

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issue 4

89-11

PL

W artykule badana jest pamięć kulturowa o powstaniu warszawskim przejawiająca się w „Kinderszenen” Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza i w „Widmach” Łukasza Orbitowskiego. W pierwszej części autorka analizuje sposób konstruowania pamięci o powstaniu przez Rymkiewicza oraz rozbiera strukturę retoryczną jego wywodu. Interpretacja prowadzi do wniosku, że strategią prezentacji powstania jest tu hiperbolizacja, a w efekcie ukazanie go jako decydującego dla afirmowanej polskiej wspólnoty. W drugiej części, dotyczącej Orbitowskiego, analizowane są sposoby i skutki ukształtowania powieści jako historii alternatywnej; autorka proponuje lekturę „Widm” jako tekstu metapamięciowego, który ukazuje niezbędność powstania warszawskiego w polskiej pamięci kulturowej. Końcowe porównanie obu pisarskich strategii pokazuje, jak zbiegają się one we wspólną figurę powstania-hiperboli, koniecznego elementu naszej rzeczywistości.

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The article studies the cultural memory on the Warsaw Uprising as present in Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s “Kinderszenen” and in Łukasz Orbitowski’s “Widma (Specters).” In the first part, the author of the article analyses Rymkiewicz’s mode of construction of memory on the Warsaw Uprising and dismantles the rhetoric structure of his argument. The interpretation leads to the conclusion that the hyperbole is a strategy of the uprising presentation and in effect Kobielska sees it as a deciding factor in Rymkiewicz’s affirmation of the Polish community. In the second part, which refers to Orbitowski, she analyses the ways and effects of building the novel as an alternative history. Kobielska suggests a reading of “Widma” as a metamemory text which shows indispensability of the Warsaw Uprising to Polish cultural memory. The final comparison of the two writing strategies shows the convergence of the two modes into a common figure of the uprising-hyperbole, a necessary element of our reality.

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Rozważania na temat Assmannowskiej teorii pamięci

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Rajewski A.

Rocznik Antropologii Historii

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2013

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issue 1(4)

187-202

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The theory of memory constructed by Jan Assman has become one of the most important analytical systems explaining the reenactment of the past in the present. His book Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination has become an important means for the modern humanities, in which it wants to show the specificity of this phenomenon. This article is a reflection made after reading the book and discusses the main assumptions presented by Jan Assman.

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Cultural Memory in the Novel Unterstadt by Ivana Šojat-Kuči

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Sabljić J., Oswald T. V.

International Journal on Language, Literature and Culture in Education

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2016

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vol. 3

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issue 2

110-126

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Unterstadt (2009) by Ivana Šojat-Kuči can serve as an example of a literary and artistic intervention in the process of cultural oblivion. It is a novel that has won numerous literary awards in Croatia for its innovativeness. For the first time, it tells a story in which minority culture members themselves narrate about their ideologically suppressed family memory in order to imaginatively (re)construct the past, considering the needs of re-examining the destiny of a bourgeois family of German ancestry in the town of Osijek. Themes such as reminiscence, remembering and raising awareness of the town space are a textual polygon for telling the story as a family saga about the destiny of women in four generations – great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, and daughter. Remembering and reminiscence are considered as social and cultural constructs that arise out of mutual interaction between the members of a specific family and community. Thereunto, the role of remembering and forgetting in the process of establishing historical events, female identity and the town’s toponymy as cultural/material objects should be determined, and vice versa, the role of culture-moulded objects in memory formation should be defined. There are three methodological approaches or perspectives to the reading of the novel. First, the historiographic layer of the novel is analysed, followed by the analysis of the town as a physical givenness and a cultural construct – a point of intersection of different identities, but also as an area of trauma. The issue of oblivion and reminiscence of the German national minority in the context of specifically female history is tackled as the third perspective. The novel Unterstadt is an example of a text presenting the mechanism of official remembering and forgetting and re-creation of the past by using the discursive act of narrating human fates conditioned by great historical events.

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Demitologizacja polskiej historii w reportażach literackich Pawła Smoleńskiego

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Wiszniowska M.

Prace Literackie

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2018

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vol. 58

165-174

EN

Paweł Smoleński adds an important voice to the critical discussion about Polish history. In his books such as Pochówek dla rezuna, Syrop z piołunu. Wygnani w akcji „Wisła” and Krzyżyk niespodziany. Czas Goralenvolk (written together with Bartłomiej Kuraś) the author reveals the dark side of incidents that occurred during the Second World War and soon after. With full consciousness of the stereotypes and tradition fixed in the Polish memory, shows his relation to the history of nation from, on the one hand, and excavates from it the essence that may and should lead to a better understanding of the present time, on the other. Using the biography of ordinary people, Smoleński, showing the full value of private, colloquial, sometimes internally discrepant voices, reconstructs the process of passing into silence, political control of reminiscences and historical falsehood. His books are stories written to warn. First of all, it is very good literature with a universal message. Smoleński shows in a very interesting way the “human measure of history,” helplessness of ordinary people in the face of politics and formal institutions, the easiness of controlling the reaction of masses and power of the language of propaganda. His books open the way for a better review of difficult past times but also, what is more important, help to better understand the present.

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Utwory osierocone jako zagadnienie prawa i kultury

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Jarmuszkiewicz A.

Tematy i Konteksty

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2017

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vol. 12

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issue 7

359-371

EN

The article presents contemporary definitions of orphan works, the problems associated with these definitions and the importance of the existence of orphan works for contemporary culture in the context of cultural memory.

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Imigracja - nowa perspektywa nienmieckiej pamięci kulturowej

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Masiakowska-Osses D.

Przegląd Zachodni

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2017

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issue 1(362)

123-132

EN

Contemporary Federal Republic of Germany defines itself as an immigrant country, and the statement fully corresponds with the actual situation. As a result of a mass inflow of foreigners, which began in 1950s, one out of every five German citizens can tell his/her own or family history of immigration. These facts serve as a basis for the question concerning the extent to which immigration that turned the FRG into a multicultural country, has become a part of the German collective memory. While referring to the concept of cultural memory by Jan and Aleida Assmann, the author presents and analyzes modern ways of preserving the immigrant past as well as expressing remembrance about it in the public sphere (jubilees, exhibitions, and monographs on culture). The process of including migration in the national history is highly dynamic, with its initiators being most often the descendants of immigrants who demand greater pluralism within Germany’s cultural memory.

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Relating to the Distant Past : Routes of Memory of Women Concentration-Camp Survivors

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Kadlecová Š.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2017

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vol. 104

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issue 4

473-494

EN

Personal stories and testimonies of survivors of Nazi concentration camps contributed to the construction of the Holocaust and Nazi genocide as a shared European realm of memory. A variety of individual memories of a certain event contribute to the creation of its collective representation which is then accessible for a wider range of people. This article deals with social dimensions of memory and trauma. It focuses on the engagement of individuals in the memory work related to traumatic past, particularly to the experience of Ravensbrück concentration camp. It examines the processes of remembering and meaning-construction in public and private contexts. The objective is to identify the routes of memory and the impacts on memory transmission in different spaces and temporalities. Ethnographic methods were deployed to investigate processes of remembering in witnesses, women-concentration-camp survivors from various European countries, and the relation to the past familial experience in descendant

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Штыри формы памяти

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Ассманн А.

Rocznik Ruskiej Bursy

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2017

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vol. 13: Akcja

209-226

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Akcja „Wisła” w narracjach przedstawicieli łemkowskiej wspólnoty pamięci

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Michna E.

Rocznik Ruskiej Bursy

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2017

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vol. 13: Akcja

131-147

EN

The article is devoted to the image of the Operation ‘Vistula’ that emerges from the narratives of members of the Lemko community of memory. The analysis is based on interviews that I have conducted as part of my longterm research conducted among representatives of the Lemko community. The collected stories are part of the ‘history of minorities’, or ‘subordinate history’, which in post-war Poland was subordinated to the official vision of the national past, doomed to marginalization and ‘forgetting’. The change was brought about by the year 1989, which started the period of democratization of memory and ‘reclaiming the past’ by marginalized minorities. The analysis of interviews allows indicating the main and recurring motives, but also the dynamics of changing the way of telling about this important event. What is characteristic of all collected narratives is the special importance of Operation ‘Vistula’, which appears in every story, often spontaneously and often performing different functions in these narratives. It is an event that structures the group’s history. It constitutes a distinct turning point, dividing the group’s history into the good ‘time before’ displacement and bad ‘time after’ displacement; it allows upholding relationships between the past, present and future.

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Sir Ernst Gombrich and the Barber from Tuscany

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Lang K.

Human Affairs

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2009

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vol. 19

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issue 3

259-265

EN

In the spirit of Sir Ernst Gombrich, this essay uses an anecdote-a chat between Gombrich and a barber from Tuscany-to illustrate a deeper point, namely, how cultural memory, tradition, and a canon give rise to an implied language of culture and cultural value. Gombrich staunchly defended tradition against relativism. By relativism, he meant something like "radical subjectivism." To his mind, subjectivism (in the cultural and social sense of the term) is not only impossible, since meaning is conferred through culture and society, but it is also dangerous (in the cultural and ethical sense of the term), since it denies the existence of shared values. Against consensus on the one hand and radical subjectivism on the other, Gombrich advocated a middle way: criticism and self-criticism to ensure latitude; the search for "truth" to ensure a limited plurality of interpretations.

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УКРАИНСКО-ПОЛЬСКИЕ МУЗЫКАЛЬНЫЕ КОНТАКТЫ В КОНТЕКСТЕ КУЛЬТУРНОЙ МНОГОСОСТАВНОСТИ АВСТРО-ВЕНГЕРСКОЙ МОНАРХИИ

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Новакович М.

Ars inter Culturas

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2018

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vol. 7

89-102

EN

The article touches upon the problem of Ukrainian-Polish musical contacts in the context of the cultural diversity of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. It is confirmed that the complexity of the topic lies in the need to comprehend two different cultural traditions and their contexts, as well as in an attempt to discover the true structures of these relationships. It is noted that the defining feature of Ukrainian-Polish cultural relations in the first half of the nineteenth century were not professional contacts between Polish and Ukrainian music, but the connection of culture with culture and Polish music with Ukrainian culture. The result of these contacts was the use of Ukrainian folklore by Polish composers. Particular attention in the article is drawn to the fact that the Galician burgher culture formed the same lifestyle and common values, and was also a homogenizing factor among the heterogeneous population of the region. This gives grounds to speak of the existence of a layer of musical unconscious common to the peoples of Galicia, which was spontaneously used in the then composer’s practice. It was borrowed mainly from German and Polish cultures, which music, due to certain circumstances became an integral part in the system of musical thinking of Galician amateur composers. In this context, the patriotic choral works of Ukrainian music by M. Verbytsky are considered, in which he often uses intonations and rhythms borrowed from the Polish music.

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