• „Jak żywa” to uniwersalny komunał? O nieoczywistych związkach prozopopei z ekfrazą w powieści Portret Pierre’a Assouline’a 

  Dynkowska, Julia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)

  It stands to reason that ekphrasis cannot be limited to the detailed but plain description of the artifact, for it often concerns what is not there in the painting as well. Authors of the ekphrases sometimes “animate” or ...

• Interaktywne słuchowisko „Alicja 0700” jako dzieło po wielokroć otwarte. Analiza i interpretacja 

  Matusiak, Eliza (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)

  Radio art evolves due to technological changes. Radio drama is becoming an interactive piece of artwork which exists on the borderland of genres. An interactive audio play uses characteristic features of the classical radio ...

• Pamięć lekturowa a tożsamość czytelnika na przykładzie powieści "Tajemniczy płomień królowej Loany" Umberta Eco 

  Lubińska, Anna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)

  The subject of this article is bibliological reflection on Umberto Eco’s novel. Its storyline is a pretext for asking the questions about the reader’s identity. Is human the sum of all the texts one has read? What is the ...

• Wróżki w przebraniu. Recepcja baśni pani d’Aulnoy w Polsce – rekonesans badawczy 

  Kaczyńska, Barbara (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)

  This article focuses on the Polish reception of Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy’s fairy tales from the 18th century until the present day. It discusses their translations, as well as adaptations published with the erroneous ...

• Kozakoznawstwo jako nurt naukowy – perspektywy, stan i możliwości 

  Ławrynow, Daria (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)

  The article presents various methodological approaches to the Cossacks Studies with a special focus on the past and present academic discourses and practices in Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kazakhstan ...

• “Addiction is a strange bastard”: Alcohol(ism) in Irish Fiction 

  Klepuszewski, Wojciech (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-09-30)

  Although it is hard to challenge the claim that alcohol can be considered inherent in Irish culture, the common perception of the fact often feeds on clichés. What helps understand this question is Irish literature. On the ...

• Political communication of Germany as a state of mature democracy in the context of the migrant crisis of the 2010s 

  Leśniczak, Rafał (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The aim of the article is the media and political analysis of the political discourse of German Chancellor Angela Merkel regarding refugees, launched by the famous slogan Wir schaffen das! The time study covers the period ...

• The (d)evolution of political communication in Italy: Beppe Grillo’s case 

  Berezowski, Łukasz Jan ; Gałkowski, Artur (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The article aims at analyzing the case of Beppe Grillo and his Five Stars Movement in terms of social, cultural and linguistic phenomenon that – initially as a virtual party without a structured organization – seems to ...

• The style of independent periodicals in 1979–1980 in the face of the dominant ideological discourse 

  Suska, Dorota (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The goal of the article is to offer a style-focussed description of samizdat press articles from the late-1970s, which were the textual manifestation of the independent discourse at that time. The author analysed representative ...

• Propaganda content in the Polish sports press of the 1950s 

  Siekiera, Rafał (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The article describes main forms of socialist propaganda in polish sports press of the 1950’s decade. As the analysis shows, sports magazines, despite their apparent thematic distance from political issues, had become tools ...

• A comparison between the concept of Newspeak in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel and the way of thinking about language in C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength 

  Wicher, Andrzej (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The aim of the article is to investigate some of the possible sources of inspiration for Orwell’s concept of the artificial language called Newspeak, which, in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, is shown as an effective tool ...

• Henryk Sienkiewicz’s output and literary censorship in the DDR 

  Rajch, Marek (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  Works by Henryk Sienkiewicz, a Polish writer and the winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize for Literature, were subjected to verification by the DDR’s censorship apparatus several times. Censors considered his novellas which ...

• The City of Man and the critique of fascism: The perspective of Hermann Broch 

  Lichański, Jakub Z. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The City of Man initiative, with a conscious reference to Saint Augustine’s De civitate Dei, wanted to build a system after the First World War that would ensure free and unfettered human development. This initiative was ...

• Culture in the service of politics. The German question and relations between the German Democratic Republic and the Polish People’s Republic 

  Ostrowski, Marek (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The politics of memory and culture of the Polish People’s Republic alludes to Ideologiekritik in its idiosyncratic way characterized by Marxist utopianism. In reality, this leads to reversing this theory. The causes of ...

• Rhetorical strategies in the anti-alcohol propaganda of Polska Kronika Filmowa 

  Grzegorzewski, Krzysztof (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The core of the text is a rhetorical analysis of the anti-alcohol propaganda in the films by Polska Kronika Filmowa produced by WFDiF. The author selected four reports from the popular series: Propaganda PRL-u. Najzabawniejsze ...

• Tajemnice ASMR – perspektywa ogólna i lingwistyczna 

  Ozga, Krzysztof (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The article presents the concept of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) from a general and a linguistic perspective. The definition of the notion and a review on the state of research is followed by a classification ...

• Płomyczek’s handbook on good manners as a manifestation of upbringing strategies under socialism 

  Grzegorzewska, Anita (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The article raises the topic of good manners and upbringing in the People’s Republic of Poland using the example of children’s and young adult press from the period. The author analysed 24 issues of Płomyczek from 1968 ...

• The meaning of activities in Okolice Sztuki – much went on at Strych 

  Adamiak, Włodzimierz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The text is a commentary to the phenomena in Polish modern art in the final years of the 20th century. It constitutes a “first-hand” account by a participant of the events and the host of the location. The location was the ...

• The silent meaning of the cognitive-performative horizon 

  Bartosiak, Mariusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The article presents the discussion which begins with a semantic clarification of the Polish terms of ‘sens’ [meaning] and ‘znaczenie’ [reference] in Polish linguistic usus, starting with the basic dictionary and corpus-based ...

• Hidden meaning in art 

  Władyka-Łuczak, Zofia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-09-30)

  The author discusses the notion of the interpretation of a work of art. Starting with the assumption that the expression “Art’s hidden meaning” should be understood as a search for narrative plots that can be detected ...

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