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The Second World War in Polish Cinema. Recent Filmic Approaches and the Reception in Poland and Germany

The article deals with the representations of history in contemporary Polish cinema. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, Jan Komasa released two fundamentally different films within one year.…

The Shoah in Poland in the Work of Jiří Weil: Translations and Literary Reference*

Jiří Weil (1900-1959) is currently associated in particular with novel-writing. His works Moskva- -hranice (Moscow to the Border), Život s hvězdou (Life with a Star) and Na střeše je Mendelssohn (Mendelssohn is on the R…

Forgotten Prosaic Works (Forming a Literary Image of the Holocaust in Slovak Literature of the 1940s and 1950s)

The iconography of the Holocaust in Slovak literature between the late 1940s and mid-1950s was also created by texts that are almost forgotten today. The article discusses prosaic works by two Slovak writers. Some of th…

Postmodernity and the Shoah. The Reception of Works about Shoah in Middle and South Europe

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Art in the Holocaust: On Josef Bor's Novella Terezínské rekviem and its Reception

The name of the Czech writer Josef Bor (1906-1979) is nearly forgotten today, although he was very successful with two works in the sixties. Both works deal with the Holocaust. The novel Opuštěná panenka (1961) is inspi…

Is There the Holocaust without a Film Music? Analyzing a Croatian and a Serbian Film about the Holocaust

This article implies that the impact of cinematic fiction on the capability to imagine and comprehend the trauma of the Holocaust is formed at the intersection of aesthetic, moral, social and ideological frames in parti…

The Holocaust in Slovak Drama

The article discusses several Slovak plays with the theme of the Holocaust; namely Ticho (Silence) by Juraj Váh, Holokaust (Holocaust) by Viliam Klimáček, and Rabínka (The Woman Rabbi) by Anna Grusková. It also briefly…

The Review of the Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Holocaust, on the Example of the Ninth Circle Interpretation

The essay is an overview of the most notable psychoanalytic approaches to the trauma of the Holocaust, in the works of the Frankfurt school authors, and in the works of Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub. The last part of th…

The Holocausts

The article examines genocide as a category that has been used and abused in various, especially historical, political, and ideological, discourses. It considers whether the extermination of Jews (the Holocaust) should…

House of Memories and Oblivion by Filip David: Literature, Memory and Death

The aim of this paper, is to determine the status of the Holocaust themes in contemporary Serbian literature. Philip David's novel House of memories and oblivion contains resonances of the civilization after World War I…

The Holocaust - the Border of Pragmatic Language

The theme of the paper is observing and revealing non-pragmatic language that, when dealing with deliberately chosen texts about acts of violence, leads to productive aesthetic disturbance. In its substance, this langua…

Reenacting the Past. An Essay on Götz and Meyer by David Albahari

This paper is the analysis of Götz and Meyer (Gec i Majer, 1998) by David Albahari (b. 1948), the writer of Serbian and Jewish origin. His novel belongs to the Holocaust-literature and its metanarrative structure calls…

The Walpurgis Night): A New Variation on the Theme of the Holocaust. Several Suggestions as for the Future Reception of the Film

In the essay, I make an attempt to present several ways, in which the Western canon of literature, music, and cinema has influenced Noc Walpurgi. With regard to this, Marcin Bortkiewicz's film turns out to be a work mad…

Postmodern Erasing of the Shoah [Raymond Federman, Georges Perec, Anatol Ulman]

The article presents three strategies elaborated in the seventies of the last century by the postmodern prose, in order to tell us about the genocide. To name these strategies, the authoress makes use of the terms of bl…

„The Ghetto without Walls" - from the Social Exclusion to Terezín

Lektury. Recepcja literackich i artystycznych dzieł o Szoa

From the Research on Jewish Motifs towards new Literary Studies

Lektury. Recepcja literackich i artystycznych dzieł o Szoa

Two Theatres. Describing the Non-existing Matters

Lektury. Recepcja literackich i artystycznych dzieł o Szoa

Conventions of Radka Denemarková's Novel Peníze od Hitlera (Money from Hitler) along with its Reception

Radka Denemarková's Peníze od Hitlera (Money from Hitler), edited in 2006, is a succesful novel. It has been perceived by critics as a significant work and traslated into ten languages. Despite this positive response, i…

Fenomenology of Evil. Bosnian-Herzegovinian Context

Lektury. Recepcja literackich i artystycznych dzieł o Szoa

Lyrical and Musical Correspondances in Josip Sever's Output

Lektury. Poza tematem

Cultural Heritage in the Balkans. Between Eastern Orthodox Church and Islam

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Bull attack as a cause of spinal cord injury in Bangladesh - Does it really matters?

Exploring the decision-making power of Bangladeshi women of reproductive age: Results from a national survey

Empowerment is personal, multi-dimensional and latent phenomenon that is difficult to measure directly. Bangladesh is a developing country in South Asia and women population of the country is almost equal to the male wi…

Rapid cycling bipolar disorder, pathogenesis to treatment: A case report and review

In this paper, we discuss a case report along with literature review focusing on background information, pathogenesis, biomarkers and potential treatment options for Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder. Keywords: Rapid cycli…