Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ...