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Popular culture, now being a medium of social dialogue, has stopped being perceived as a register of “lower” existential experiences, and its creations became the testament not of a cultural degradation, but of creativity of its authors, who seek fiction clichés which offer a new look at the deeply rooted social phenomena. Thus, if it is done with inertia and awkwardness typical for the subject, its potential of “explaining the world” should not be underestimated.
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The article is the author’s refl ection on her experience related to teaching a course on historiography for undergraduate history students entitled Interpretations of the past. Alterations of images related to historical events, personalities and processes in historical narratives. She presents the general concept of the course, topics and contents of particular classes, as well as (with relation to some exemplary topics) concrete teaching methods used and specific educational effects to be achieved.She also discusses the historiographical sources and scholarly literature she adopted as the textual background of her course.
Historia@Teoria
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2017
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vol. 4
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issue 6
53-62
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Arguments about history (as like as politics) is certainly not newfangled or unexpected. The competing visions of the past (winners and losers) are not, however, just a dispute over what and how it happened. On the contrary, it is not diffi cult to see that they infl uence not only upon the domination of the “piloted” vision of the past, but also on a particular social/political order. Th erefore in this article I try to show some risk behind the mythologization and politicization of the historical discourse.
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Arguments about history (as like as politics) is certainly not newfangled or unexpected. The competing visions of the past (winners and losers) are not, however, just a dispute over what and how it happened. On the contrary, it is not diffi cult to see that they infl uence not only upon the domination of the “piloted” vision of the past, but also on a particular social/political order. Th erefore in this article I try to show some risk behind the mythologization and politicization of the historical discourse.
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The subject of the article is the composition strategies of presenting the bygone time in animated films produced in the integrated cultural space that was, during the communist era, Central and Eastern Europe. Productions made in two countries – in the Soviet Union and in Poland – are considered. The discussion of film examples is conducted in an approximate chronological order, according to the time of production of individual pictures. The presentation of specific productions is not intended to exhaustively analyse these audiovisual works, but to review thematic threads related to the past and in their context compositional ideas and tendencies.
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referring to autobiographical motifs, recalls past events – the difficult childhood of the main character, specific family relations, and the tragic experiences of a so­‑called grandmother. The author of the article discusses the types of trauma connected with the experience of war, unsuccessful relationships within a family and the period of growing up. She concentrates on female characters, as the women in Biała Rika represent a wide variety of women with different features and values. The aim of the article is to interpret Biała Rika in the context of post­‑trauma with past torments and the work of memory always in the background of one’s consciousness.
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Andrzej Stasiuk’s collection of short stories Grochów (2012) is a sentimental reminiscence of the author’s childhood and youth. Stasiuk recalls events from the past: happiness and ease are replaced by pain, loneliness, sickness and death. The author of the article explains how the feeling of emptiness and loss is created by the writer, for whom the idea of loss is the main theme of the book. The aim of the text is to interpret Grochów, according to the category of
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The well-known French-language writer, Assia Djebar, teaches the reader to listen intently to cultural differences, inspires tolerance towards other people and touches upon the problem of the emancipation of women in the Arab-Muslim civilization. In her work entitled Le Blanc de l’Algérie Djebar recalls deceased Algerian intellectuals, such as Albert Camus, Frantz Fanon or Kateb Yacine, as well as cruelly murdered writers and less known persons, who proved to be important for the author herself (namely her friends) and for the history of Algeria. The author bemoans those absent figures, remembering their last minutes of life, their families’ despair, and the atrocity of death. The article is an attempt at a reflection on the problem of absence that is in dichotomy with presence. The absence of great Algerians is unbearable; it is not silence but a cry for the memory of the tragic moments in the history of the country. Those moments, when remembered, shall help understand better the painful contemporary times. Djebar in a subtle way removes a white shroud (white is the colour of mourning in the tradition of North-African countries), thus showing the reader the moving and colourful Algerian fresco.
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Seneca shows us that reading the philosophers can enable the reader to escape time. He also teaches how to possess the future achieving fame among wise and virtuous people. In Seneca’s opinion, time is our greatest wealth, however ephemeral it might be, although his tragic heroes and heroines as well as the author himself are conscious of the fact that death limits the time of life thus making it valuable. Nevertheless, his philosophy is often pessimistic, neglecting hope as a key to the future.
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The paper analyses the final phase in the life of of Daša Drndić’s Belladonna’s protagonist. In the last years of his existence, Andreas Ban’s consciousness is dominated by the thoughts about illness and the nearing retirement. Commonly, both these phenomena mark the threshold of an old age. When it comes to this particular character, they amplify the sensation of solitude (initially stemming from the keen sense of criticism that Ban displays) as well as impotence (connected to the disagreement with the existence of asenile and poor life of an aged man to which Ban is doomed). Drndić uses her novel’s protagonist to accuse both the Croatian state and the contemporary civilization of fetishizing youth and beauty, which, in turn, sentences the Other to “non-existence” (in Drndić’s prose, the Other is always anonconformist who, additionally in her latest novel, is in advanced age).
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U tekstu se analiziraju poslednje godine života Andreasa Bana – glavnog lika romana Bel­ladonna D. Drndić. Pred kraj života Ban je obuzet mislima obolesti ipenziji koja ga čeka. Mnogi misle da su ove dve pojave obeležje starosti. Kod Bana one stvaraju osećaj otuđenosti/usamljeno­sti, koji proizilazi iz izrazite kritičnosti, karakterične za ovaj lik, inemoći, učijoj je osnovi pobu­namrzovoljnog isiromašnog starcaprotiv života, na koji je prinuđen. Kroz sudbinu svog junaka Daša Drndić optužuje hrvatsko društvo, kao isavremenu civilizacijiu koja, idealizujući mladost ilepotu istovremeno osuđuje na nepostojanje „Drugo” („Drugi” upoetici ove spisateljice označava nonkonformistu, koji je uovom slučaju vremešan).
Ethnologia Actualis
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2015
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vol. 15
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issue 1
8-39
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The paper discusses transmission of the historical memories of the comparatively recent past across generations in Slovakia. It introduces the Slovak debate on the recent and difficult pasts, explains the basic theoretical stances, moves on to introduce the regions of the research and the methodology used and finally gives voice to young and older respondents whose information is commented and analyzed. The paper hopes to provide insights into the processes of memory transmission and past construction. As well, by using numerous quotes from the informants, it hopes to illustrate and substantiate the claim about the defects of the debates among the people of current post-socialist era in Slovakia.
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The article explores the issues connected to the social role of archaeology and its meaning among the public. In the paper we analyze the European survey conducted by Harris Interactive in 9 European countries (Poland, Greece, Italy, France, Sweden, UK, Holland, Germany, Spain) with a special account on its results in Poland. The results of the survey present that archaeology is a scientific discipline of special interest among Poles and that they appreciate and need a contact and cooperation with archaeologists which would enable society to understand more the importance of our own past.
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For Primate Stefan Wyszyński, the past of the nation was an important element creating the identity of the nation, on whose behaviour its future depended. Maintaining the memory of the history of the nation, which, in the primate’s thought, was constituted when Mieszko I was baptised in 966, was one of the priorities of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński’s teaching. For this reason, it was also a part of the world-view dispute between the Primate and the communist authorities of postwar Poland, whose aim was to erase many pages of history from national memory or to give them a different meaning as a condition for creating a „new” society based on the Soviet model. In the evaluation of the past, falsified in the People’s Republic of Poland, the Primate used „his own domestic and national sense” and „proper evaluation of the spirit”. The theological perspective allowed the Primate to look at the painful and tragic pages of history, including the lost national uprisings, as a sacrifice modelled on the sacrifice of Christ, necessary for the resurrection of Poland. According to Primate Wyszyński, the history of the nation was a reservoir of values, co-shaped by faith and the Church, from which future generations could draw in the struggle to regain independence in 1918 and regain sovereignty.
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The Gothic collegiate church in Wiślica, founded by king Kazimir the Great in 1350, replaced older structure, What were preserved from that Romanesque church, was a twotower façade included to a new building and 13th century sculpture of Madonna. It seems that the point of this action was commemoration of the both distant and close past of the town, including the time when when citizens of Wiślica supported Władysław’s the Short struggleof power. Moreover, on the Romanesque façade a statue representing Kazimir himself was placed. Similar solutions were introduced also in other Kazimir’s foundations. Another significant point of reference is collegiate church in Vienna where at the same time older façade was preserved decorated with the founder’s statue. Yet in Wiślica such historical programme was connected with the arms of the lands ruled by Kazimir. All these elements make an image of reunited Kingdom ruled by the rightful dynasty.
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In this article we analyse the topos of the home in two novels set in Lviv: “Home for Dom” by Viktoria Amelina and “The house with the Stained-glass Window” by Zhanna Sloniovska. In both of them, the eponymous ‘home/house’ contains family secrets which are meant to be representatives of the Eastern European fate. The metaphor of a home has several meanings in both novels: it refers to an apartment, a home-city (Lviv) and a homeland. On both dimensions, the home has not been presented as stable and unchanging space. It is rather a symbol of transience than permanence. In both novels, the family stories reflect the problems of identity and memory of the inhabitants of modern Ukraine.
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Półka literacka 2013

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The article presents the most important and the most interesting prose and poetry publications that appeared in 2013. Last year was marked by a dominance of well known authors (such as Justyna Bargielska, Jacek Dehnel, Julia Hartwig, Ignacy Karpowicz, Wiesław Myśliwski, Jerzy Pilch, Eustacy Rylski or Marcin Świetlicki) and proved that books that consider identity problems and facing the demons of the past can gain positive readers’ response.
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Półka literacka 2014

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The article presents both the most important and interesting prose and poetry publications that appeared in 2014. Last year was marked by the dominance of the well¬ known authors (such as Justyna Bargielska, Jacek Dehnel, Ignacy Karpowicz, Olga Tokarczuk, Mariusz Sieniewicz, Agnieszka Wolny- Hamkało, Piotr Szewc, Agnieszka Mirahina, Magdalena Tulli, Zbigniew Kruszyński) and proved that books that deal with identity problems and cast heroes who are facing the demons of the past can gain positive readers‘ responses.
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Półka literacka 2016

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The article presents the most important and the most interesting prose and poetry publications that appeared in 2016. Last year was marked by the dominance of well­‑known authors (such as Joanna Bator, Anna Dziewit­‑Meller, Gaja Grzegorzewska, Jerzy Sosnowski, Szczepan Twardoch, Zośka Papużanka, Andrzej Busza, Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Marcin Świetlicki or Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn­‑Dycki) and proved that books that consider identity problems or facing the demons of the past can attract positive responses from readers.
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The article presents the most important and the most interesting prose and poetry publications that appeared in 2012. Last year was marked by a dominance of well known authors (such as Joanna Bator, Tomasz Łubieński, Dorota Masłowska, Tomasz Piątek, Tomasz Różycki, Mariusz Sieniewicz, Andrzej Stasiuk, Szczepan Twardoch, Krzysztof Varga, Krzysztof Siwczyk, Justyna Bargielska, Andrzej Sosnowski, Dariusz Suska or Bohdan Zadura) and proved that books that consider identity problems and facing the demons of the past can gain positive readers‘ response.
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The author attempts to describe the aesthetic experiences of the past lived by the protagonist of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s The Wilko Girls, and answer the question about the possibility of repetition. Elaborating on the arguments proposed by Friedrich Nietzsche in The Gay Science and by Søren Kierkegaard in Repetition, the author proves that even with a favourable attitude to one’s own past, an attempt to repeat past experiences is impossible. Nothing can be experienced again. The past is closed. The possibility of only partial access to it is created by human sensuality referring to the notion of aisthesis, which is the source of aesthetic experience. The senses stimulated by various sounds, smells, tastes, images, and the accompanying memories and emotions, constitute a vast spectrum of aesthetic experiences, making the experience of the past an existential experience of time.
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Even in times of crisis, the extraordinary linguistic variety (signaled) in Portugal does not oppose the prevalence of the Portuguese language and a near complete understanding between speakers of different regions, nor does it appear as an element of a conflict from which it may suffer the consequences. In fact, the present context shows that its situation may even benefit from a pattern of cultural return to the “origins” or to what could be called as historic and ethnologic roots. The possibility and motivations of such a return are here at the heart of an analysis specifically focused on the evolution of popular Portuguese music in the 20th century.
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