Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica: Recent submissions
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How to describe “the world of colossal absurd”? On the grotesque in Gulag literature
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The main aim of the paper is to reflect on the various forms of the disclosure and the use of the grotesque in the Polish camp literature. Prisoners, authors of books devoted to life in the camps, experienced life in ... -
Polish camp literature. A few questions about a synthesis that is missing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The author of the text poses questions why there has never been a historical and literary synthesis regarding Polish camp literature, Lager-themed in particular, as Gulag literature possesses at least protosyntheses. He ... -
Georges Didi-Huberman, Écorces, and Otto Dov Kulka, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death – as Lager essays? Imagination and remembrance of the title formulations in relation to the formulation “anus mundi”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article is an attempt at interpretation of two essays, which may be called „Lager” essays. These are Écorces written by G. Didi-Huberman and Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death written by O.D. Kulka, their books are ... -
A flawed portrait. The image of Zofia Kossak in the accounts of former Birkenau female internees
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article indicates how the figure of Zofia Kossak has been recorded in the unpublished accounts by former KL Auschwitz-Birkenau female internees who during their internment came into contact with the famous writer and ... -
Survival strategy. The Death Brigade by Leon Weliczker
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article discusses the account by Leon Weliczker (The Death Brigade) who belonged to the Sonderkommando in the Janowska camp. When describing everyday life centring on the removal of corpses, Weliczker also revealed his ... -
Camp literature. Introduction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)This article includes a terminological discussion regarding the notion of camp literature. Within Polish literary science, it is usually applied to literature raising the topic of German Nazi camps, particularly concentration ... -
Freedom and possession in the letters of Andrzej Bobkowski
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)For Bobkowski, to maintain personal freedom based on material independence achieved through his own work was a fundamental existential issue. Freedom and financial independence were: a declaration, a life’s motto and an ... -
Parables of Un-freedom: Novels about the Spanish Inquisition in post-1956 People’s Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article examines three post-1956 novels ostensibly about the Spanish Inquisition’s activities in Spain at the end of the fifteenth century: Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Ciemności kryją ziemię (The Inquisitors, 1957), Julian ... -
The multi-faceted nature of freedom in the life and works of Czesław Miłosz
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article discusses the issue of freedom in the work of Czesław Milosz. This problem is analyzed in relation to prose, poetry, essay writing, journalism, as well as numerous interviews that Milosz gave throughout his ... -
Freedom of self-discreditation. On Witkacy’s letters to his wife
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)„If these letters are to be found by someone after my death, I will be brought into disrepute (…)” – wrote Witkacy to Jadwiga and he reminded his wife of destroying all the letters she receives from him. The question what ... -
Creator’s freedom. Schulz’s late projects
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article discusses the idea of creation coined by authors descended from the same, Austro-Hungarian cultural field, by: Bruno Schulz, Joseph Roth and Gustav Meyrink. Austro-Hungarian Monarchy created its own mithology ... -
Totalitarianisms as systems of lawlessness (Miłosz’s remarks)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article accounts for the gnostic individualism in Miłosz’s records. It shows that its essence is not freedom, but self-will. It argues that its premises are existential. Among them we can find the fundamental data of ... -
Central Office of Press Control/ Main Control Office of Press, Publication and Performances – background, audit scope and staff
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The aim of the article was to present the circumstances of the establishment and the scope of activities of the Central Office for Control of the Press, which was transformed into Main Office for Control of the Press, ... -
Two freedoms. (Poetic) fragments of Michel Houellebecq
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)This article discusses the poetry of Michel Houellebecq. Its reading as a world-view statement is defined by its key notion of freedom. The thus specified reading enables one to identify various meanings of the notion ... -
Intellectual limitation of freedom? The issues of libertas in the nationalistic reception of Italian fascism in the Second Polish Republic (based on the examples of journalistic publications)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The limiting of personal freedom in interwar Italy resulted directly from the fascist approach to the state-individual relationship. The idea of leaving the citizens the broadest individual freedom, and limiting state law ... -
Freedom in community or freedom in solitude? Remarks on republicanism and liberalism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)A political thought is an area of legitimate contribution of competitive ideas. Liberalism is often considered as one of the most significant and influential paradigm of our times. The common acceptance of liberal conception ... -
21st Century prose and freedom – from the issues of proza środka
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The main aim of the article is a consideration the problems connected with this part of contemporary literature which is called “proza środka” (“prose of the middle”). 21st century novels treated as the examples of this ... -
Moments of liberty. (Self-)censorship Games in the Essays of Virginia Woolf
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)What is surprising in Virginia Woolf’s essays is the scale and the audacity of her intellectual searches – in the time of increased repressive censorship and growing totalitarianisms, she approached the themes of freedom ... -
Freedom as vulgarity in the poetry of débuting poets at the watershed moment of 1989
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article is dedicated to artistic vulgarity as a form of freedom of art manifesto. The author explains that using obscene and drastic language which breaks social taboos (particularly sexual ones), has often been caused ... -
Profanity in songs. Seeking the limits of freedom of speech, and the reproduction and sanctioning of contemporary linguistic tendencies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article is showing the presence of vulgar expressions in song lyrics. This is a clear testimony to the changes in the customs and language of culture of recent decades. The paradox is that the development of negative ...