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Politics, Poetics and “the Tragedy of Existence”. The Reception of Młyny Boże [the Mills of God] Novel Series by Kazimierz Truchanowski by the Censorship Bureau
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
The article analyzes the censorship board’s reception of Kazimierz Truchanowski’s novel cycle The Mills of the God, published between 1961 and 1967. The analysis gives an insight into the interesting process of the growing ...
Censorship Towards the Subject of the Warsaw Uprising in Belles-Lettres in 1956–1958
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
Right from the beginning, the subject of the Warsaw Uprising was often manipulated or even entirely erased from public discourse under the Stalinist regime. It was only after the liberalization of culture and the easing ...
The Polish Trial of Kafka. On the Reception of Franz Kafka and So-Called “Dark Literature” by the Censorship Board
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
The article discusses the reception of Franz Kafka’s novels and the so-called “dark literature”, popular after 1956, by the censorship board. It presents the discussions around Kafka’s work and various interpretational ...
Censorship in the PSL Press within the Period of the 1946 Referendum and the Legislative Sejm Election
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
The main goal of the article is to analyse censorship interventions made in articles raising the topics of the referendum and the election to the Legislative Sejm which were prepared for print in the periodicals of the ...
Out of Date. Remarks on the 1951 “Index of Books to be Immediately Excluded”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
This article seeks to identify some of the uses of „the index of books to be immediately excluded” issued by the Ministry of Culture and Arts in 1951. At that time, decrees of the sort specified inventories of books permitted ...
Theatre and Drama of Socialist Realism in the Context of Cryptotexts (Based on MKiS and WUKPPiW Material)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
The main goal of the article is to offer a description of cryptotexts of theatre staging handbooks and dramatic works created in Poland during the socialist realism period. A cryptotext is a secret text which is the result ...
“There Aren’t any Dwarfs; They got out in Time”. Censored Image of the Home Army in Polish Poetry in 1956–1958
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
The paper focuses on censorship board’s approach to the subject of Home Army in Polish poetry from the period 1956−1958 of the liberalization of culture. The basic purpose of the research is focused on the identification ...
Routine But Ribald. Intimacy in Stefan Żeromski’s Journals
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
Stefan Żeromski’s Journals concern mostly matters of intellectual (book, theatre, and exhibition reviews, writing techniques) and personal character, with the latter including some very intimate material. Żeromski was an ...
Institutional Censorship in Relation to Catholic Press during the Decline of People’s Republic of Poland (1989–1990)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
The goal of the article is to present the scope of interventions by the Regional Offices for the Control of Publications and Performances in the Catholic press during the decline of the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL) ...
Literary Competitions Organised by the Ministry of Culture and Arts in 1949–1950 in the Light of Archive Records
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
The subject of this paper are these literary competitions organized by Ministry of Culture and Arts in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Analysys of the materials from archivesenabled to tackle the issues: these competitions ...