Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica: Recent submissions
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A few remarks on the mechanisms of censorship in the PRL and the Third Republic of Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The purpose of the paper is to discuss the mechanism of censorship before and after 1990 when the mission of the communist Chief Control Bureau for Press, Publications and Performances (GUKPPiW) was terminated. Communist ... -
Irony, self-mockery, and ironic turns of events. Marian Załucki’s satirical performances
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article offers an analysis of the works of Marian Załucki (a Polish comedian, poet, children’s literature writer, and author of books: Przejażdżki wierszem, U szczypnij muzo, Ojczyste kpiny!, A n ie m ówiłem?, Niespokojna ... -
Freedom and secretiveness, in late modernism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The text considers two metaphors describing creative freedom in modern society: secretiveness and shadow. In the shadow, creative individuals protect themselves against the ubiquitous need to explain and screen life. The ... -
Role model (in) advertising?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article concentrates on analysing the growing interest of academics in studying advertisements. While arguing why this perspective of reading literature may bring interesting critical results, the article focuses mainly ... -
Book cover inventory (in the latest literature)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The change in the context of the functioning of literature since 1989 and the transformations contemporary literary life has been subject to due to various reasons have resulted in the need to add a literary science ... -
„Dziady" directed by Kazimierz Dejmek – an attempt at demythologisation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The author of the article attempts to recreate the famous staging of Dziady directed by Kazimierz Dejmek, in order to demystify the spectacle. The performance is analysed in terms of art, taking into account the political ... -
Dadaism (Re)activated. Artzins and Dada
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article analyses in what way artzins (independent art and literary journals published in Poland in the 1980s and 1990s) drew inspiration from the Dada tradition, and how they made its philosophy live again. Artzins are ... -
Ritual as reflected by censorship. The Control Bureau as the custodian of the cultural image of the authorities in the early days of the People’s Republic of Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The ritual as a series of actions specified by traditions or a given political system, defined in detail and repeatable, was also fulfilled in the communist system. There it was aimed at introducing and amalgamating the ... -
El principe constante? Jan Lechoń and politics (after 1939)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)In the article, I focuss on the theme of the political views of Jan Lechoń during his New York exile, which emerged in his literary work, letters, and Dziennik. The main elements of the political stance of the author of ... -
Polish literature and the Konzentrationslager. The beginning
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)In the article the author discusses the beginnings of Polish camp literature, more precisely: literature referring to the Nazi German concentration camps. For decades it was assumed that the earliest Polish texts of that ... -
The Schizomorphism of the world of visions in Bruno Schulz’s prose
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)In the article, I undertake to interpret Bruno Schulz’s prose using the methodological proposals introduced in the humanities by Gilbert Durand, a French anthropologist of imagination. Based on the implemented research ... -
Interpretation of a verbal-visual communication
Habrajska, Grazyna
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
In contemporary internet-dominated everyday life, ever more often one faces communications which utilise both verbal (words) and iconic (images) codes. In the article, I analyse two types of said communications: advertisements ... -
Persuasive functions of photo galleries on information websites
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article presents a rhetorical analysis of online galleries. The author argues that the selection of photographs presented in a gallery serves the purpose of fulfilling a persuasive goal. That is proved by, as indicated ... -
Fulfilling the journalistic principles of truth and objectivity in the context of mediatisation of political communication – the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The mediatisation of political communication indicates two main functions of the mass media: they report on events from the world of politics and create the images of political actors in the eyes of the public. I attempt ... -
Journalistic practices of science popularization in the context of users’ agenda: A case study of „New Scientist”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article includes a discussion of two models which describe contemporary communication processes in journalism: agenda-setting and news value, indicating the need to expand their research tools to include qualitative ... -
Hybrid forms of entertainment in the media
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The media environment is an extremely variable universe where every now and again we can observe the emergence of new phenomena. Many of those form through blending of often rather different and distant areas. As a result, ... -
Fake news. A continuation or rejection of the traditional news paradigm?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)In the article, I analysed the problem of fake news in the context of the traditional paradigm of a news story. The traditional paradigm posits that, most of all, a piece of information is true. However in contemporary ... -
Rhetoric appropriateness in view of contemporary media communication and journalism
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)In the article, I present deliberations on the theme of the rhetorical category of appropriateness in the context of its original sources and contemporary media practice. Upon presenting the theory formed in line with the ... -
New communication practices on the radio and in the audiosphere
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)For the past decade or so, internet radio, podcasts, mobile sound apps, and digital libraries of audio content have enjoyed increasing popularity among researchers and receivers of culture. Radio, similarly to other ... -
Enclaves of freedom. On „second circulation” publishing in the PRL
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)„Second circulation publishing”, the broadly defined publishing and cultural movement, independent of the authorities of the PRL and not subject to state censorship, was initiated in the autumn of 1976 by the community ...