Cross-Roads – serie
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42 produkter
UCI Critical Theory and Contemporary Art Practice: Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Bruce Nauman, and Others
With a Prologue by Georges Van Den Abbeele
Av Ewa Bobrowska, Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2020
769 kr
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This book is unique in both its subject matter and its approach. It focuses on the collaboration of J. Derrida, J.-F. Lyotard, J. Hillis Miller, D. Carroll, F. Jameson and others at the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine and on the application of critical theory for …
This Bud of Love
a faith-filled romance with love, grace and redemption
Häftad, 2025
197 kr
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Cross Roads: Butterfly
Häftad, 2015, 12-15 år
101 kr
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Emily tar lektioner i klassisk balett. I hemlighet tränar hon också boxning. Emily är duktig tack vare sin förmåga att röra sig snabbt och smidigt. Plötsligt har hon glädje och nytta av dansen. Men vad säger hennes föräldrar? Boxning, det är inget för en tjej! För de elever som kämpar med sin …
Hero, Conspiracy, and Death: The Jewish Lectures
Translated by Alex Shannon
Av Maria Janion
Inbunden, 2014
739 kr
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With Hero, Conspiracy and Death: The Jewish Lectures, the author has written a book of sweeping significance for readers interested in Polish history, Jewish history, and the Holocaust in which she asks troubling questions: Can a Jew be both a Jew and a Pole? Are we right to talk of «worthy» and …
From Modern Theory to a Poetics of Experience
Polish Studies in Literary History and Theory
Av Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2014
1065 kr
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The volume From Modern Theory to a Poetics of Experience contains a wide selection of essays, which were published during past decades in academic journal Teksty Drugie and were widely appreciated as significant contributions to the ongoing debate on principles and methods of literary studies. …
Wisława Szymborska’s poetry
Choice of essays- Translated by Karolina Krasuska and Jedrzej Burszta
Inbunden, 2015
964 kr
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This is a reader’s book about Wisława Szymborska’s poetry. She holds the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1996. The Contents of the book are the Nobel Lecture held in Stockholm at the official ceremony by the poet in December 1996, a choice of Polish essays about Szmyborska’s poetry and translations of …
«Miłosz Like the World»
Poet in the Eyes of Polish Literary Critics
Inbunden, 2014
1226 kr
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Czesław Miłosz, poet, literary critic, essayist and Nobel Laureate, is a familiar person to the Anglophone literary community. But American and British critics in the main are not very competent in the intimate features of Polish literary culture and have no access to the Polish language. This …
Literature of Consciousness
Samuel Becket – Subject – Negativity
Av Jakub Momro
Inbunden, 2015
863 kr
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The questions the writer Samuel Beckett posed in his dramas, his prose and his poetry are the central questions asked by the most outstanding thinkers of modernity. Samuel Beckett, therefore, is the central figure in this book, but he is not alone. This study is not only a precise literary …
«A World Apart» by Gustaw Herling
Translated by Agnieszka Kołakowska
Inbunden, 2015
964 kr
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Gustaw Herling’s A World Apart is one of the most important books about Soviet camps and communist ideology in the Stalinist period. First published in English in 1951 and translated into many languages, it was relatively unknown till Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in the 1970s. However, the …
«Phaedra» – Ethics of Emotions in the Tragedies of Euripides, Seneca and Racine
Translated by Adriana Grzelak-Krzymianowska
Av Małgorzata Budzowska, Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2012
572 kr
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Emotions as ‘the early form of knowledge about the surrounding world’ constitute a necessary component of the human psyche. Nevertheless, through the ages of the development of mankind, the emotional aspect was often regarded as a dispensable part of human nature, which should be fully ruled by …
Literature and Weak Thought
Inbunden, 2013
792 kr
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This book is a reconstruction and presentation of the fundamental assumptions of the so-called weak thought, as elaborated mainly by the Italian hermeneutical philosopher Gianni Vattimo and the Romanian philosopher Constantin Noica in his ontology. Both Noica and Vattimo focus on all that is …
Clifford Geertz’s Interpretive Anthropology
Between Text, Experience and Theory
Inbunden, 2015
623 kr
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Over the last decades Clifford Geertz’ interpretive anthropology has played an important role in the field of socio-cultural anthropology. The study presents the critical reception of his thoughts in Western countries and Polish anthropology. Interpretive anthropology is based on the category of …
Polish Translation Studies in Action
Concepts – Methodologies – Applications. A Reader
Av Piotr Bończa Bukowski, Magdalena Heydel
Inbunden, 2019
884 kr
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Translation Studies has been in action in the Polish humanities since 1930s. The book gathers the most important contributions from Polish translation scholars working in the context of Literary and Cultural Studies as well as Linguistics. The essays offer insights into the conceptualisation of …
Autobiographical Triangle
Witness, Confession, Challenge
Av Małgorzata Czermińska, Ryszard Nycz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
884 kr
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Critical revised edition and translation by Jean WardThis book presents a universal theory of autobiography, defined as a "triangular" form of utterance involving three different stances. It is a personal testimony to experiences lived through, a confession of intimate inner experience and a …
Somatic Criticism Project
Inbunden, 2018
770 kr
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This book illustrates the problems connected with the body and the sign: the real body and the body of the text, somaticism and semiology (both as a general sign theory and in the medical sense as «symptomatology»). The author seeks to derive a more general principle from these two words, referring …
Myths in Disguise
Av Michał Głowiński, Jan Burzynski
Inbunden, 2018
770 kr
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This book presents a collection of essays discussing a history of the five myths of Dionysus, Narcissus, Prometheus, Marcolf, and Labyrinth in twentieth-century literature. The author traces their transformations against the wider backdrop of Polish and European literature. The book is an …
Worldview, the Trope, and the Critic
Critical Discourses on Miron Białoszewski
Av Piotr Sobolczyk, Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2019
884 kr
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This book presents the rhetorical means of creating discourses about a writer and examines how the critic’s viewpoint mediated via rhetoric tropes interplays with cultural institutions and their rules (newspaper criticism, university, schools). It eventually shows the place of literature in culture …
World under Revision
The Poetry of Wisława Szymborska
Av Wojciech Ligęza, Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2019
711 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entirety of Wisława Szymborska’s poetic oeuvre. The author employs in-depth historical reflection on Szymborska’s beginnings to reveal that – without describing her post-war beginnings and reflecting on her early entanglement in socialist realist …
Persona of Czesław Miłosz
Authorial Poetics, Critical Debates, Reception Games
Av Mikołaj Golubiewski, Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2018
754 kr
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The Persona of Czesław Miłosz considers the poetry of Miłosz in the innovative light of world literature and comparative literary studies. The author employs critical debates about Miłosz in American and English literature to reshape the image of his reception. The book masterfully elaborates …
Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol. 2: Artistic Practices
Av Tamara Brzostowska-Tereszkiewicz, Magdalena Rembowska-Płuciennik m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
678 kr
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The objective of this book is to continue the reflection on the innovative potential of misunderstanding in cross-cultural encounters which we started by publishing the first part of the book (Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol. 1: Cross-Cultural Translation, Peter Lang 2019). The main purpose of …
Romantic Memory
Studies from the Past and Present
Av Krzysztof Trybuś, Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2019
734 kr
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The book depicts the phenomenon of cultural memory preserved in the Polish Romantic literature, predominantly in the works of Mickiewicz, Słowacki, and Norwid (and other European poets). The primary objective is to reconstruct the cultural pattern of continuity established in Poland during the …
Psychoanalysis – the Promised Land?
The History of Psychoanalysis in Poland 1900–1989. Part I. The Sturm und Drang Period. Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the Polish Lands during the Partitions 1900–1918
Inbunden, 2019
675 kr
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The book is the first systematic study of the beginnings of psychoanalysis on Polish lands in Galicia (Austria-Hungary) and Congress Poland (Russia) during the partitions of Poland in the years between 1900 and 1918. The birth of the movement was presented on a broad cultural background, as an …
Literature and Media
After 1989
Av Maryla Hopfinger, Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2020
888 kr
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This book discusses the direction of changes in contemporary culture at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries in Poland on the example of mutual relationships between literature and the media, such as film, radio, TV and the Internet. The interdisciplinary approach adopted by the author combines …
Literature of Polish Romanticism in Its European Contexts
Inbunden, 2020
740 kr
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The book contains essays on the heterogeneity of Polish Romantic literature and its links with Europe’s cultural heritage. The essays deal with, among other topics, the idea of beauty and truth, correspondences between the arts, the role of tradition and memory in the Romantic era, and the …
After the Fall
On the Writings of Czesław Miłosz
Av Tomasz Garbol, Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2020
888 kr
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Tomasz Garbol’s book reconstructs Czesław Miłosz’s poetic vision of the world after the Fall. The entry point to this approach is the conviction about the ambivalence of previous interpretations of Miłosz’s works, especially about his bipolar poetic worldview (his intellectual and existential …
On an Electric Arc
Andrzej Bobkowski Writing
Av Maciej Nowak
Inbunden, 2020
717 kr
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Maciej Nowak’s book is the first monograph on the writings of Andrzej Bobkowski (1913–1961), a Polish émigré writer from the millieu of Jerzy Giedroyc’s Kultura journal. Bobkowski is famous for his diary Wartime Notebooks: France 1940–1944, translated into many languages, including English. Using …
Transcultural Haiku
Polish History of the Genre
Av Beata Śniecikowska, Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2021
954 kr
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The monograph presents the Polish history of haiku and the forms associated with this genre – in literature and visual arts. Polish works are confronted with Japanese poetry (along with its aesthetic, philosophical and ethical contexts) and with haiku-inspired miniatures produced by poets from …
Prose Poem As a (Non)Genre
A Polish Case Study
Av Agnieszka Kluba, Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2021
816 kr
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Is the prose poem revolutionary and subversive, or marginal and lyrical? What makes a piece of prose a prose poem? Is its identity vague or precisely defined? Can every poem written in prose be considered a prose poem, a form influenced by the brilliant invention of French literature and by authors …
Photo-Graphemicality
Photography and Poetry at the Turn of the 21st Century
Av Barbara Englender, Ryszard Nycz
Inbunden, 2022
735 kr
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The turn of the twentieth and twenty-first century brought about sweeping technological changes which impacted our way of functioning in society. One of those constitutes the transition from analog to digital photography.The aim of this monograph is to capture these changes and their image …
