Fighting for Rosenbergs. The Polish staging of Leon Kruczkowski’s play “Julius and Ethel”

Leon Kruczkowski was one of the few Polish writers to publicly protest about the treatment of Jewish people by the Polish Government in the years preceding World War II. First performed in Warsaw in 1954, his Polish play...

Thoreau’s Surreal Imagery of Homemaking and Mumford’s Myth of the Machine

The article discusses Henry David Thoreau’s domestic spatial imagery in Walden, in terms of Bachelard’s poetics of space, as a set of angles, nests, crusts, and shells. The analysis identifies uncanny similarities betwee...

Tracing the Form of Compassion: Homelessness in Leslie Scalapino’s “bum series.”

The article examines American avant-garde poet Leslie Scalapino’s poem “bum series,” included in 1988 collection way. Devoted to the theme of homelessness, “bum series” problematizes a poetic gesture of forging an ethica...

Internet jako sposób na tabu choroby psychicznej. Analiza przypadku portalu Mam efkę

Żydowska Warszawa w obrazkach. Komiksowa antologia Złote pszczoły jako przykład kultury historycznej

The following article aims to show places where pop culture merges with Jewish tradition on the example of comic books. The author tries not only to reconstruct the evolution of the genre and its changing reception but a...