RSS 1.0Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica T. 45 (2017) nr 7
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Freedom and secretiveness, in late modernism
Tomasz Bocheński
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Freedom in community or freedom in solitude? Remarks on republicanism and liberalism
Tobiasz Adam Bocheński
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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)
Paweł Sobczak
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Freedom of self-discreditation. On Witkacy’s letters to his wife
Sara Kurowska
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Creator’s freedom. Schulz’s late projects
Monika Szyszka vel Syska
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Totalitarianisms as systems of lawlessness (Miłosz’s remarks)
Zbigniew Kaźmierczyk
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The multi-faceted nature of freedom in the life and works
of Czesław Miłosz
Michał Głuszak
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Freedom and possession in the letters of Andrzej Bobkowski
Józef Maria Ruszar
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Parables of Un-freedom: Novels about the Spanish Inquisition in post-1956
People’s Poland
John Bates
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Irony, self-mockery, and ironic turns of events. marian Załucki’s satirical performances
Katarzyna Smyczek
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A few remarks on the mechanisms of censorship in the PRL and the Third Republic of Poland
Jakub Dąbrowski
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21st Century prose and freedom – from the issues of proza środka
Agnieszka Czyżak
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Freedom as vulgarity in the poetry of débuting poets at the
watershed moment of 1989
Piotr Łuszczykiewicz
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Profanity in songs. Seeking the limits of freedom of speech, and
the reproduction and sanctioning of contemporary linguistic tendencies
Krzysztof Gajda
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Moments of liberty. (Self-)censorship Games in the Essays
of Virginia Woolf
Paulina Pająk
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Two freedoms. (Poetic) fragments of Michel Houellebecq
Tomasz Wójcik
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Central Office of Press Control/ main Control Office
of Press, Publication and Performances – background, audit scope and staff
Kamila Kamińska-Chełminiak
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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 ... -
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 ...