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Samuel Beckett i śmierć reprezentacji: Rockaby, Ill Seen Ill Said i Worstward Ho

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Colerick E.

Prace Literaturoznawcze

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2020

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issue 8

161-172

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The article explores not only the link between Samuel Beckett’s final two novellas and the late drama but also seeks to demonstrate the author’s intent on stripping away the symbolism and imagery within his work in order to expose a life lived through the prism of representation; and, finally, to use his art to suggest something of the ‘real’ beneath the representational world. In this way the article demonstrates that the apotheosis of Beckett’s entire oeuvre is to reduce his narrative and dramas to a single work which finds its most comprehensive embodiment in his final novella: Worstward Ho.

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CULTURAL MINORITIES AND THE PANOPTIC GAZE: A STUDY OF THE (MIS)REPRESENTATION OF ETHNIC MINORITIES IN MALAYALAM FILMS

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DIVAKARAN R. V. M.

Journal of Education Culture and Society

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2017

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vol. 8

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issue 2

240-248

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This paper explores the patterns of the representation of Adivasis or aboriginals – known as ‘tribals’ in common parlance – in Malayalam language films. Film as a medium of representation is continuously engaged in constructing images and thus the process becomes an ideological enterprise contributing to the relentless practice of defining and redefining the society and its various components in terms of several binaries. The film industry of Kerala, a southern state of India, is affluent and more influential than other art forms and production. Though the tribal population of Kerala is around 400 thousand and they belong to as many as 43 subgroups, they are underrepresented in films and that too is in a stereotypical manner. These groups are considered to be largely distinct with each tribal group identifying themselves with their own mythologies, tales of origin, and distinctive religious and ritualistic practices. This paper critically analyses the politics of representation using the example of tribals in Malayalam films as it has evolved over the past decades and attempts to trace a whole gamut of aesthetic and ethical issues at stake.

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The Transfiguration of the Real in Abstract Painting

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Wunenburger J.-J.

Human and Social Studies

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2016

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vol. 5

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issue 2

77-89

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This article challenges a series of assumptions associated with abstract painting, arguing that this type of art makes one understand a visual manifestation which does no longer refer to the visible world only, but also to an intelligible world, accessible to the senses. Non-figurative painting abandons the reproduction of the visible, in order to present us with the invisible, and in order to account for this phenomenon the author elaborates three types of philosophical decision to interpret the mode of being of the image. The comprehension of this original experience of abstract art is then compared to the relations between the visible and the invisible, as Christian theology delineates them. Christianity is defined first by the experience of the figuration of God, by His embodiment, which actually enables one to conceive of certain images, such as the icon of the Orthodox liturgy, but at the same time it also bestows, for the first time, an incredible status to the disappearance of the visible divine body, when it returns to the invisible, while remaining present in the visible.

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Recalculating the White Page-GPS Love in Comme dans un film des frères Coen

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Hastings V.

Human and Social Studies

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2016

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vol. 5

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issue 1

53-72

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Hastings reads the novel Comme dans un film des frères Coen (2010) by Bertrand Gervais as addressing both the midlife and the blank page crisis. Indeed, the main character of this novel is a writer in his fifties who still suffers from the failure of his last novel ignored by the critics. Disenchanted, he slowly enters a world of fantasy, and falls in love with the voice of his GPS he called Gwyneth “parle trop” (speaks too much) therefore recalling the name of the actress with the same name. He gradually loses contact with his wife and his son, a successful painter, and is transformed into “the man who was not there” another character from a movie by the Coen brothers entitled The Barber: the man who was not there. Hastings asks: How could one get lost with a GPS? After the main character had initially bought his GPS for a trip in Australia in order to find his way, it started to go beyond its role as a road guide and questioned where he was in his relationship with his wife, in his career as a writer, and in his skin as a mature man. Not only was the GPS not fulfilling its purpose but also it started to ruin a fragile relationship hoping to find its way back to love during a last minute trip in Australia. Even after destroying the annoying talkative GPS, it continued to disrupt the couple in the plane on the way back to Canada. As much as Gwyneth the GPS is synonymous with escape and freedom, it is also showing the main character the wrong way, the way out of his reality, out of his family and out of his life. His attempts to free himself from Gwyneth are worthless, her image is still there, haunting his thoughts like images from a movie. But the displacement happens at another level than just the diegetic one. The confrontation of the text with moving images has consequences on the shape of the text itself. The mapping of the text on the page is influenced by this amalgam. The white page becomes a space where words are rearranged in different ways, some of which suggest poetry, other cartoons or cinematic images. The displacement of literature in areas that were previously foreign to it is at the heart of creative activity, and determines its renewal. Hastings presents the consequences resulting from the confrontation with the GPS, both on the mapping of one’s identity as well as the mapping and the shaping of the text itself.

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Recuerdos, emoción, representación. Formas de la memoria de la represión en la España actual

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Piedras Monroy P.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2017

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vol. 44

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issue 1

63-73

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History has got the monopoly of legitimate representation of the past, above all due to its privileged academic position. Its accounts operate as true and valid and often label all the rest as fiction. There are nevertheless some other forms, linked to memory, capable of learning from and narrating through emotions, opening paths of understanding, compromise and intervention in society. Referred to the memory of repression in Spain, we talk in this article about graphic novel, photography and documentary films.

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Kontekst dziedzinowy w systemach z bazą wiedzy

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Zadora P.

Studia Ekonomiczne

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2015

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vol. 216

150-159

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W artykule przedstawiono problematykę modelowania wiedzy i jej reprezentacji dla potrzeb przetwarzania wiedzy kontekstowej, tj. nieustrukturyzowanej, zmiennej i pochodzącej z wielu źródeł. Autor podkreśla znaczenie teorii ugruntowanej jako narzędzia analitycznego poprzedzającego modelowanie tego rodzaju wiedzy.

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The article presents the problem of modeling and knowledge representation for the processing of contextual knowledge, i.e. unstructured, variable, and deriving from many sources. The author emphasizes the importance of grounded theory treated as an analytical tool prior to modeling this kind of knowledge.

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State-Building and Democracy: Prosperity, Representation and Security in Kosovo

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Silander D., Janzekovitz J.

International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal

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2012

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vol. 14

39-52

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The traditional assumption of the state sovereignty norm has been that an international society of states will structure the international order to safeguard the interests of the state. The end of the Cold War era transformed international relations and led to a discussion on how states interacted with their populations. From the early 1990s, research on international relations, war and peace, and security studies identified the growing problem of failing states. Such states are increasingly unable to implement the core functions that define the sovereignty norms. This article explores the state-building process of Kosovo with a focus on the political road taken from independence in February 2008 to the challenges Kosovo faces today. Kosovo still has substantial issues to address regarding core state functions in the development of prosperity, popular representation and security.

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Entre la revelación y el olvido: una aproximación a la noción de vida en Michel Henry

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Di Giacomo M.

Studia Gilsoniana

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2023

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vol. 12

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issue 1

169-209

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This work is developed within the context of the theological turn of French phenomenology (Janicaud), analyzing the notion of life that Michel Henry stages in the first of his works, The Essence of Manifestation. To this end, we intend to explain what the French author understands both by the alienated manifestation of phenomena in terms of representation or ontological monism, and by the self-manifestation of life that he privileges, which does not consist in placing the phenomena in the light of a conscience, as would be characteristic of the first manifestation, but in a philosophy of Night that owes nothing in the strict sense to mundane transcendence. The latter is preceded and, in any case, made possible by the former. According to Henry, there is an absolute knowledge that is not susceptible to any progress, thus founding a pathetic philosophy by which life reveals itself (Parousia) without the need for intermediaries that would alienate its intimate immediacy.

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Brown, Never Black: Othello on the Nazi Stage

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Bassey A.

Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance

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2020

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vol. 22

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issue 37

51-65

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This paper examines the ways in which Othello was represented on the Nazi stage. Included in the theatre analyses are Othello productions in Frankfurt in 1935, in Berlin in 1939 and 1944, and in pre-occupation Vienna in 1935. New archival material has been sourced from archives in the aforementioned locations, in order to give detailed insights into the representation of Othello on stage, with a special focus on the makeup that was used on the actors who were playing the titular role. The aim of these analyses is not only to establish what Othello looked like on the Nazi and pre-Nazi stage, but also to examine the Nazis’ relationship with Shakespeare’s Othello within the wider context of their relationship with the Black people who lived in Nazi Germany at the time. In addition, the following pages offer insights into pre-Nazi, Weimar productions of Othello in order to create a more complex and comparative understanding of Nazi Othello productions and the wider theatrical context within which they were produced. In the end, we find out, based on existing evidence, why Othello was brown, and never Black.

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Literary realism in the shaping of slovak culture

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Kendra M.

Journal of Education Culture and Society

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2021

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vol. 12

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issue 2

455-468

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Aim. The aim of the study is to clarify the internal complexity of the Slovak literary realist discourse and its diverse relations to the heterogeneous artistic, cultural and ideological discourses of the last third of the 19th century. Attention is focused on the appropriation and adaptation of stimuli from other social systems, as well as on the specific literary operations that modify literary realism as an artistic discourse constructing an intelligible world in a cultural sense. Methods. As a theoretical concept, realism is defined as a type of representation or representation technique associated with a set of textual conventions, complex referential and self-referential figures. As a literary-historical discourse and event situated in a particular moment of history, realism is governed by period-specific principles (operating in the mechanism of culture) of selection, evaluating and connecting the phenomena of reality. Only with this dichotomy the multiplicity of paradoxes, syncretism and heterogeneous character of Slovak literary realism can be captured. The theory of social systems (N. Luhmann) allows for a more complex view of realist literature as an autopoietic system in the context of modern society as a system of communications differentiated into a network of separate social subsystems interrelated by the medium of language. Finally, the theory of fictional worlds proposes selective and formative operations that explicate the construction of realist fictional world and the stratification of its functions (B. Fořt). Results. Among the configurational relations of Slovak literary realism, the concept of ideal realism is highlighted as a model of literary aesthetics that flexibly interacted with the discourse of national revival to provide an adequate expression of contemporary Slovak cultural and national interests. Two literary-aesthetic modifications of ideal realism (creative and voluntarist, originated by Svetozár Hurban Vajanský, and deterministic, represented in the prose works of Martin Kukučín) are analysed in detail in order to show the inner complexity of the literary-realist discourse and to manifest its semantic multidimensionality in the 1880s.

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Internet w działalności polskich przedsiębiorstw

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Talar S., Kos-Łabędowicz J.

Studia Ekonomiczne

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2014

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vol. 184

134-152

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Rozwój technologii i narzędzi internetowych niesie ze sobą wiele możliwości i szans, od wykorzystania których w dużym stopniu jest uzależniony rozwój współczesnych podmiotów gospodarczych. Celem artykułu jest ocena stopnia i specyfiki wykorzystania internetu w działalności polskich przedsiębiorstw z uwzględnieniem porównań międzynarodowych. Przeprowadzona analiza wskazuje na pewne problemy polskich firm z pełnym wykorzystaniem funkcjonalności internetu, ale też zwraca uwagę na niedostatki w zakresie jakości dostępnych danych i sugeruje ostrożność w ich interpretacji oraz kontynuację badań w tym zakresie.

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Progress of technology and growing number and complexity of Internet tools brings numerous possibilities, that modern companies must properly take advantage of in order to grow. The goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of the degree in which the Internet use plays a role in activities of Poland-based companies, including comparing them to international companies. The analysis shows certain problems polish companies face when it comes to proper application of possibilities given by the Internet, while at the same time shows imperfection and incompleteness of available research data, suggesting careful approach to any interpretations and necessity of ongoing research.

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La transición política de los países de América Latina – entre el autoritarismo y la democracia

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KRZYWICKA K.

Revista del CESLA. International Latin American Studies Review

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2010

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vol. 2

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issue 13

623-642

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The paper discusses some chosen, leading tendencies observed in the area of political relations and systems of exercising power in Latin America. The author attempts to analyze some specific features characteristic for the transforma-tions in the Latin American political systems. She takes into consideration main as-pects and conditions of the political transitions which are: the growing importance of elections, as well as durability and popularity of electoral democracy in that region; the extension of competences and reinforcement of the role of executive powers; the crisis of representative democracy; the decline of the importance and role of political parties and the parliament; the appearance of apolitical forms of leadership and new forms of expression of social interests. The paper ends up in a conclusion that Latin America enters a new phase of political advancement and attempts to find its own model of democracy.

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El trabajo reflexiona sobre algunos fenómenos que destacaron en el ámbito de las relaciones políticas y desempeño del poder en América Latina. El artí-culo trata de responder a la pregunta sobre la especificidad de los cambios de los sis-temas políticos. La autora analiza los principales aspectos y condiciones de la transi-ción política, a los que incluye el aumento de la importancia de las elecciones, la per-manencia y universalidad de la democracia electoral en la región, la ampliación de las competencias y el fortalecimiento del papel del poder ejecutivo, la crisis de la demo-cracia representativa, el déficit de la importancia y papel de los partidos políticos y el parlamento, la propagación de formas apolíticas del liderazgo y las nuevas formas de articulación de los intereses sociales. El artículo termina con la conclusión que América Latina entra en una nueva fase del desarrollo político y busca su propio modelo de la democracia.

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Samuel Beckett i śmierć reprezentacji: Rockaby, Ill Seen Ill Said i Worstward Ho

CULTURAL MINORITIES AND THE PANOPTIC GAZE: A STUDY OF THE (MIS)REPRESENTATION OF ETHNIC MINORITIES IN MALAYALAM FILMS

The Transfiguration of the Real in Abstract Painting

Recalculating the White Page-GPS Love in Comme dans un film des frères Coen

Recuerdos, emoción, representación. Formas de la memoria de la represión en la España actual

Kontekst dziedzinowy w systemach z bazą wiedzy

State-Building and Democracy: Prosperity, Representation and Security in Kosovo

Entre la revelación y el olvido: una aproximación a la noción de vida en Michel Henry

Brown, Never Black: Othello on the Nazi Stage

Literary realism in the shaping of slovak culture

Internet w działalności polskich przedsiębiorstw

La transición política de los países de América Latina – entre el autoritarismo y la democracia