Böcker i Polish Studies - Transdisciplinary Perspectives-serien

The book is devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors, whose oeuvre addresses timeless issues, such as the moral and spiritual condition of man or his place in the world and history. The book contains an extensive selection of contributions which represent different approaches to the poet's work.

This book joins Krzysztof Warlikowski's theater with the dynamic changes in Polish society following 1989, using strategies borrowed from psychoanalysis, theater anthropology, performance studies, and cultural poetics. The plays are analyzed in terms of their affective impacts, as symptoms of social drama.

Captures links between music and literature in the light of recent proposals from theorists of intertextuality and comparative literature, and at the same time diagnoses the current state of comparative literature as a field of literary research.

This book describes the Polish-French relations during the period of the Cold War, 1944-1989. It contains not only political issues, but also economic, cultural, scientific and educational relations. The text has widely focused on mutual contacts of both countries' communist parties.

Sienkiewicz is more than a juggler of genius in narrative prose. This conservative writer knew that no unproblematic representation of reality was possible. The energy of his narratives disturbs narrative order and exposes the heteronomy of a superficially unified style, thus generating fissures, but never ruining the architecture of the text.

The book forms a monograph of the local culture of the old Polish Livonia, practically absent in contemporary humanistic research. It includes historical and anthropological recapitulation of the phenomenon and describes cultural mechanisms of border situations on actual example.

The history of Polish associations in Germany is an example that demonstrates - amongst others - growth and expansion. This book is intended to fill, to a certain extent, the gaps in the sociological literature on Polish organisations in Germany. It aims at describing the situations in which nongovernmental organizations that associate Poles residing in Germany find themselves.

The book focuses on the presentation of basic figures of memory that are present in the twenty-six novels by the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch. This study shows how memory is crystallized in the Jewish experience of nature and in the reality shaped by people, as well as in the reception of the biblical and historical events to which the author refers.

The book provides a panorama of Italian migrants' activities in Polish economy, political life and culture. The motivations of Italians to travel to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and often settled there permanently, the reasons which made this migration possible as well as the difficulties in their adaptation are described.