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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Polishness"”.
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Kieślowski's Unknown: How Kieślowski's late films were influenced by his Polishness and his early Polish films
… that his work was deeply rooted in his sense of Polishness. In terms of research methods, this thesis utilises the existing abundant li terature on nation and nationalism to provide an overview of the topic and builds its own theoretical framework and a working definition of Polishness. The …
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Georg Philipp Telemann and the Invention of 'the Polish Style': Musical Polishness in the Early Modern German Imagination
… effeminate qualities. And for some witnesses, Polishness in music was understood in terms of on-the-page musical elements; for others, it was manifest in the sounds of certain instruments and performance practices. I resolve these apparent contradictions by deconstructing the idea of a single …
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Towards corpo-nationalism: a Bourdieusian study exploring the relationship between national branding and the reproduction of Polishness (1999 - 2010).
This thesis interrogates the relationship between the emerging transnational field of nation branding practice and Polish national identity discourse. It sets the analysis of its findings in the contexts of the dominant neo-liberal political economy and promotional culture in Poland, but its …
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Émigrés as Aneks: Polish Intellectuals Between East and West, 1968–1989
… genocide); by people grappling with Polishness and Jewishness both within themselves and society; by identity as something people struggle against and something they make for themselves.</p>
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Valstybinė kultūros paveldo apsauga Vilniaus krašte 1922-1939 /
… - the vision of Vilnius (region) as a redout of Polishness. The Vilnius region was not as Polish as it was created visually and in writing. Today, such an aspiration and vision of the protection of monuments is perceived in historiography as an actual situation of the protection of monuments in …
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The making of Polish London through everyday life, 1956-1976
… it to subsequent generations. This kind of ‘Polishness’ was heroic, martyrological, and Roman Catholic. The organizational and fundraising skills developed in the Communities’ pursuit of their own houses proved invaluable in the building of the Polish Social and Cultural Centre in London …
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Crossing boundaries of cultures and identities: Polish migrants in Belfast
… of Catholicism, feeds a heightened sense of Polishness. Nevertheless, Polish migrants are open to potential movement beyond the ethnic group, and to the accretion of additional, contextually moulded, layers of identity.This research includes both qualitative and quantitative methods: in-depth …
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Visions of their Land: Młoda Polska & The Making of Landscape
… art. It addresses the fundamental paradox of Polishness of the period: what articulated Polish identity at a time when Poland did not exist? This dissertation examines four topoi of Young Poland landscape art as intersections between the different cultural practices that constituted and …
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The Social Life of Teen Attention: Navigating Citizenship, Schooling and the World Wide Web in Cochabamba, Bolivia and Warsaw, Poland
… In Poland, a nationalist and Catholic ideal of Polishness clashes with the urban ideal of liberal European citizenship. In Chapter 2, I consider how those imaginaries relate to quotidian practices at the school, guiding pedagogic orientations through the (re)production of teachers’ normative …
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The dramaturgy of Sławomir Mrożek
… from the Polish; and on the other hand, the Polishness of the plays that have been translated into Western languages has probably inhibited non-Polish critics. In the hope of filling this gap in the scholarly writings on one of the prominent contemporary playwrights, I undertake in this study …