Mondays with WUWr #21
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The first book of the new WUWr series is now on sale!
It might seem that everything has already been said about Romanticism and the Romantic tradition in Polish literature. But apart from European Romanticism and the Polish Romanticism in exile, represented by Mickiewicz, Słowacki, Krasiński and Norwid, there is also a national Romanticism, unjustly treated less well and sometimes even forgotten, which encompasses poetic and dramatic works created in Poland divided after the partitions.
The just-published book ‘Romantyzm rozdwojony? Pytania nierozstrzygnięte’ inaugurates the new publishing series ’Romantyzm Krajowy. Studia i Interpretacje’, which aims to break down stereotypical analyses and evaluations of the supposedly “exhausted” tradition of Romanticism. The published articles complement previous findings on the Romantic paradigm and provoke a renewed discourse.
Wincenty Pol, Władysław Syrokomla, Seweryn Goszczyński, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and Aleksander Fredro made contributions to Polish literature that were no less and no less important than those made by artists on emigration. The difference was that the former were ‘there’ (in exile) and ‘here’ (in Polish history, tradition and a divided country), the latter ‘here’ and ‘there’. But they too – such as Wincenty Pol, an icon of the Polish Romantics – referred to the most important currents of the age: philosophical, aesthetic and artistic. As far from parochialism and epigonism as possible. Thanks to their works, European ideological ferment found its way to the Vistula and the Niemen.
The volume was edited by Małgorzata Łoboz, a historian of nineteenth-century literature and head of the Department of the History of Romantic Literature at the Institute of Polish Studies at the University of Wrocław, and Olga Taranek-Wolańska, a literary scholar and assistant professor at the Department of Editing.
We recommend! https://wuwr.eu/produkt/romantyzm-rozdwojony/
The contemporary direction of settlement research in Katarzyna Kuzara’s book: „Zmiany sieci osadniczej w Legnicko-Głogowskim Okręgu Miedziowym”
We look forward to the publication of doctoral student Katarzyna Kuzara, doing her research at the Department of Social and Economic Geography of the Institute of Geography and Regional Development. Her study is a multi-faceted look at issues of population, spatial, social and economic change, and the analysis provides detailed information on the functioning of the settlement complex centred around copper mining. The analysis covers the area of Głogów, Lubin, Legnica, Polkowice and the city of Legnica.
The discovery of copper deposits proved to be a watershed event for the social and economic development of the Legnica-Głogów Copper Belt, which as a result of the destruction caused by World War II was one of the least industrialised and urbanised areas in the country. The start of industrial activity stimulated social and economic development in the area, which today, thanks to KGHM, is the leader in copper mining and smelting in Poland.
The book contains nearly one hundred illustrations, maps and charts showing the changes taking place in the Copper Belt. It includes comparisons of archival cartographic materials and the author’s maps and infographics illustrating changes in the area’s functions. The presented contemporary direction of settlement research allows informed and more effective decisions regarding spatial planning, economic development, social policy or environmental protection.
The publication was subsidised by the Fund for Scientific Research and Commercialisation of its Results, and the Historical Museum in Lubin is also a co-publisher.
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