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Dr. Aleksandra Sznajder Lee – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Aleksandra Sznajder Lee, Associate Professor of Political Science, discusses her new book, Transnational Capitalism in East Central Europe’s Heavy Industry, published recently by the University of Michigan Press. Focusing on the steel industry during the post-communist transition from 1989 through 2009, Dr. Sznajder Lee traces the transformation of flagship state enterprises in the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia into the subsidiaries of large, international corporations
Aleksandra Dirvianskaitė - piano Player, educator, composer
No full textReikšminiai žodžiai: Pianistai; Kompozitoriai; Biografijos; Aleksandra Dirvianskaitė“While writing a boom Lithuanian Music in Siberia I titled a chapter about those who managed to survive “Next to Exile” and now I strongly believe that all of us who survived the ra of dependence were next to exile, writes the author discussing the life and works of Lithuanian musician (page 70)
Women’s crisis narratives : the mourning experience in Aleksandra Zielińska’s "Sorge"
Full text linkThis article concerns Aleksandra Zielińska’s novel Sorge. The author focused on relationships beetwen women - mothers, daughters and sisters in perspective of women’s mourning and also uses cathegory of trauma, abnormal grief and unresolved grief. The author analyses Sorge as (post)pandemic reinterpretation of legend of Pied Piper of Hamelin and examines contemporary forms of mourning in perspective of social quarantines
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Aleksandra Khokhlova
Full text linkToday Aleksandra Khokhlova is remembered as the star actress in films directed by Lev Kuleshov in the 1920s and 1930s. Indeed, at the peak of her career she was at the epicenter of the Soviet avant-garde, an icon of the experimental acting that matched the style of revolutionary montage cinema. Looking back at his life, Kuleshov wrote: “Nearly all that I have done in film directing, in teaching, and in life is connected to her [Khokhlova] in terms of ideas and art practice” (1946, 162). Yet, Khokhlova was much more than Kuleshov’s wife and muse as in her own right she was a talented author, actress, and film director, an artist in formation long before she met Kuleshov
Epizod bragmański Historii o żywocie i znamienitych sprawach Aleksandra Wielkiego jako zderzenie dwóch światopoglądów
Full text linkThe Bragman Episode in the History of the Life and Eminent Affairs of Alexander the Great (Historia o żywocie i znamienitych sprawach Aleksandra Wielkiego) as a Clash of Different World ViewsThe article presents an interpretation of a literary vision of utopia. It is focused on the cultural aspect Bragmanes utopia created using artistic means – representations, values and beliefs specific for the author of the text as well as his cultural milieu. The deliberations featured in the article are based on the analysis of the “Bragman episode,” a fragment of an Old-Polish translation of Historia o żywocie i znamienitych sprawach Aleksandra Wielkiego dating back to 1550. The story of Alexander’s encounter with Bragmanes determines the beginnings of the utopian tendency in Polish literature. The episode mentioned was described by Julian Krzyżanowski in his monograph Romans polski wieku XVI in 1934 and extensively analysed by Anna Krzewińska in her treatise Początki utopii w literaturze staropolskiej. One of the interpretative proposals presented in this article is an assumption that the Bragman utopia is unreal and poses as a curiosity. Moreover, the exoticism and isolation of Bragmanes’ land indicates connections between its description and the myth of the Golden Age or paradise lost. The key role of nature, which is identified with the primeval and – at the same time – the best state of human existence, is also emphasized. One of the means of depicting nature appears to be worth considering especially: the description of nature referring to the concept of locus amoenus, also proper for the descriptions of an earthly paradise, indicates an archetypical character of this kind of representations. The next part of the article is devoted to an analysis of the axiological level of the Bragman utopia. Implying that strict ethical principles based on a strong distinction between right and wrong result from perceiving man as a spiritual creature, the author aims to discuss the spirituality of the Indian nation with reference to Christian religion and beliefs, and ways of representation characteristic for the religious mentality of the Middle Ages. The conducted analysis of paraphrases from the Holy Bible found in the letters of the leader of the Bragman community indicates that their philosophy and religion are deeply ingrained in the culture of Logos. As a result, it is logos, not nature (physis) or law (nomos), that can be considered the basis of the Bragman order. Furthermore, Bragmanes’ retreat from the sphere of culture as well as European civilisation and their conscious choice of living close to nature do not prove their barbarity. Instead, they question the validity of the opposition between culture and nature (however the distinction between nature and civilisation is sustained). The reading of the Bragman episode proposed in the article, oriented towards the disclosure of a vision of the world depicted in the romance, shows that the Christian significance and parenetic character of the Bragman utopia (clear for the medieval reader) could not influence the protagonist. In the author’s opinion, they determine a significant stage of Alexander’s pilgrimage around the world, the moment of confronting and rejecting a strange world-view.
Trzy wizje Ukrainy w twórczości Aleksandra Karola Grozy
Full text linkIn the article selected works of Aleksander Groza, a representative of “the Ukrainian school” of Polish romanticism, have been thoroughly investigated. The author used interpretive methods of postcolonialism, comparative studies and intertextuality, and sometimes also from the field of ethnography and ethnology. The article is an introduction to the monograph that the author is currently working on. As a result of the analysis of the works, it was possible to distinguish three main images of the Ukraine, which are stereotypical for the Polish literature in genere: Arcadian Ukraine, Cossack Ukraine and frenetic Ukraine. By using the fragments of Groza’s texts, as well as intertextual references, the author characterized each of these images. After outlining the poet’s profile through a simple biography, which will be developed in the future, the author of the article conducted an analysis and interpretation of the following works by Groza: the volume Poezje, Ukrainian elegies: Soroka and Pierwsza pokuta Żeleźniaka, poem Mogiły, dramas Śmieciński and Hryć. Such a versatile choice of texts allowed to draw some interesting conclusions concerning Aleksander Groza’z profile
Syn Aleksandra jako projekt człowieka idealnego. Humanitas w Quidamie Norwida
No full textArtykuł ukazał się w serii serii „Humanizm. Idee, nurty i paradygmaty humanistyczne w kulturze polskiej”Artykuł Rolfa Fiegutha stanowi analizę norwidowskiej postaci Syna Aleksandra. Autor dostrzega w nim „człowieka idealnego, skazanego na doczesną porażkę” (s. 188) oraz „wyidealizowaną wersję siebie” (s. 191). Syn Aleksandra, zdaniem badacza, jest zapowiedzią ideału chrześcijanina w czasach, gdy kultura rzymska chyli się ku upadkowi.
Badacz zauważa, że Norwid dokonuje opisu rzeczywistości rzymskiej w analogii do czasów mu współczesnych, włączając w to kontekst kryzysu wartości. Syn Aleksandra nazywa swój rodzinny Epir „pustką dziadów” (s. 192). Jednocześnie bohater nie czuje silnej przynależności społecznej, co autor uznaje częsty element charakterystyki człowieka idealnego. Również z Rzymie Epirczyk nie zżywa się z żadnym ze stanów.
Obok Syna Aleksandra badacz wymienia inne symboliczne postaci: Hadriana, jako fałszywego dobrego władcę, poetessę Zofię, jako fałszywy ideał kobiety oraz świeckiej mądrości oraz nauczycieli omawianego bohatera.
Według Fiegutha ważną cechą Syna Aleksandra jest jego miłość. Jest to miłość nieegoistyczna, która stanowi nowożytny ideał miłości. Zostaje ona przeciwstawiona brutalnej erotyce antycznej.
Autor analizuje również scenę śmierci Epirczyka. Mimo braku patetycznej atmosfery, stanowi ona ważny element w charakterystyce tej postaci.
Na pogrzebie Epirczyka zjawiają się rożne postaci, symbolizujące odmienne światopoglądy. Zdaniem Fiegutha jest to ukazanie, że ideał, który reprezentował Syn Aleksandra, jest dostępny dla wszystkich oraz stanowi jedynie kwestię dobrej woli.Rolf Fieguth, The Alexander’s Son as a Project of Ideal Man. Humanitas in Quidam by Norwid
Rolf Fieguth’s article is an analysis of the figure of Alexander’s Son from Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s poem Quidem. The author sees in it “an ideal man, condemned to a temporal failure” (p. 188), and an “idealised version of himself” (p. 191). The son of Alexander, according to the researcher, is a forecasted version of the ideal of a Christian at the time when the Roman culture was declining.
The researcher notes that Norwid describes the Roman reality in analogy to his contemporary times, including the context of the crisis of values. The protagonist does not feel strong social bonds, which the author recognises as a common element of the characteristics of an ideal man.
In addition to Alexander’s son, the researcher mentions other symbolic characters: Hadrian, as a false good ruler, poetess Sophie as a false ideal of the woman and secular wisdom, and teachers of the protagonist.
According to Fieguth, a primary feature of Alexander’s Son is his love. It is a non-selfish love that is an early-modern ideal of love. It is contrasted with brutal ancient erotica.
The author also analyses the scene of Epirczyk’s (Man from Epirus) death. Despite the lack of pathetic atmosphere, it is an essential element in the characterisation of this protagonist. At the funeral of Epirczyk various characters appear, symbolising different worldviews. According to Fieguth, this is a demonstration that the ideal represented by Alexander’s Son is available to everyone and is only a matter of goodwill.Ewa Kuczyńsk
Aleksandra Galkina, A-Ja
No full text"This book was made in a form of ABC with works created by the author during last 20 years. Works accompanied by her commentaries with two critical works by Liudmila Brekhdina and Alexandra Novozhionova which are there to help understand and 'guess' the author's creative and personal interests".-Bookvica catalo
Broadcasts by Aleksandra Stypułkowska for Radio Free Europe’s Polish Broadcasting Service
No full textThe purpose of the article is to show, based on selected examples, the journalistic and radio broadcast activity of Aleksandra Stypułkowska (alias Jadwiga Mieczkowska) for Radio Free Europe’s Polish Broadcasting Service, and to present the most important issues she raised on air, along with her unique way of argumentation. The study analysed audio and press sources. Available issues of the monthly magazine Na Antenie (1963–1989) were reviewed for her statements by applying a press analysis method in tandem with qualitative research. Because of the editorial requirements that the article had to meet, only certain press materials were included, and a number of news and literary programmes were excluded; these omissions will be addressed in a separate paper. However, some audio sources available on RFE’s website were also selected applying a media content analysis method; namely, those which the author finds original as regards the subject matter and journalistic genre (in line with the case study method), and which make it possible to present a variety of issues raised by Stypułkowska, including her views on legal, socio-political and religious matters. This study can therefore be seen as a prelude to further research
J-Contemporain 2019-2020
No full textAffiche en PDF SOCIÉTÉ ET CULTURE DU JAPON CONTEMPORAINÉcole des hautes études en sciences socialesCentre de recherches sur le Japon2019-2020 Les 2e et 4e jeudis du mois de 11 h à 13 hEHESS, salle 7-51, 54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris Mary Picone, MCF, EHESS (CCJ-CRJ)Aleksandra Kobiljski, chargée de recherche au CNRS (CCJ-CRJ)Thomas Garcin, MCF (Paris Diderot) 14 novembre : Session introduction 28 novembre : Ryan Cook (Université Emory) « Yomibito Shirazu (Author Unknown): Adaptation and ..
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