The article concerns the reception of Marcel Proust’s novels by Anna Iwaszkiewiczowa (1897–1979) — an excellent expert in literature, music and painting, polyglot, erudite, humanist with a predilection for the exact sciences. ...

The nineteenth century was an age of reason and industrialization. Magic and mythical creatures ceased to exist for the rational minds of the time. Yet, despite the intellectual hostility to magic and mysticism, their sway ...

Postcolonial African literatures written in Portuguese build their identity by modifying existing linguistic and literary norms. One of its manifestations is including in writings elements of traditional orality. The orality ...

The article discusses the problem of the physical appearance of older people in the context of the stereotype that exists about old age and shows it in the context of intergenerational relations. The dynamics of socio ...

The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the types of sentimental work that mothers perform in the context of their children’s difficult school experiences. The interpretative framework for the analysis of women’s actions ...

The article is set in the theoretical framework of feminist sociology and transgender studies. The author addresses the issue of transgender identity in the context of gender socialisation understood as a process which has ...

The aim of the article is to present connections between the issues of body and corporeality in contemporary culture, and reflection and practice of acoustic ecology. The concept of acoustic ecology developed by Raymond ...

The aim of the essay is to discuss an intergenerational transmission of family history and its impact on the process of becoming a Black woman in a racist society. The example chosen for analysis is the autobiography of ...

Writing field notes is a vital part of participant observation necessary to gain insight into specific social situations and cultural phenomena. The procedure of data recording seems deceptively straightforward, but is ...