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Copyright of Perspectives on Culture / Perspektywy Kultury is the property of Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

From its inception in 1958, the tourist and educational magazine "Poznaj Swój Kraj" [Discover Your Country] was never free from propaganda. Materials of this kind were usually included to mark congresses of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party or national and state holidays. The official propaganda of success reached its climax in the 1970s. After 1981 eulogies of the socialism system receded and the focus of attention turned to tensions between industrial development and conservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the three decades since 1989 Gazeta Wyborcza published a considerable number of articles, reviews, reports, essays (feuilletons) and news items about various aspects of Czech cultural life, especially contemporary literature (i.e. individual authors as well as issues and sites with literary connections). While a steady focus was kept on the work of the most popular, award-winning writers like Václav Hrabal, Milan Kundera, Ota Pavel, Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek and Josef Škvorecký, Gazeta Wyborcza also promoted the fiction of Michal Viewegh, Irena Obermannová and Jáchym Topol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Płomyczek Afrykański [The African Little Flame] (1943-1945) was a bimonthly children's supplement to Polak w Afryce [The Pole in Africa], a weekly published in Nairobi for Poles evacuated in 1942 from the Soviet Union. This study, based on a collection of 45 issues from 1943-1945, attempts to characterize the content of this publication (themes, type of texts, layout), the circle of contributors as well as examine any facts that may throw additional light on its production and reception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The assassination of the Mayor of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz in Poland's leading national newspapers, This article compares the coverage of the incident in six print dailies (Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita, Nasz Dziennik, Gazeta Polska Codziennie, and two tabloids Fakt and Super Express) over a period of two weeks (14-26/27 January). Their presentation of the story differed considerably. There were marked differences not only in the total amount of space the individual papers devoted to the Adamowicz's murder and its fallout, but also the way they selected, described and interpreted various points, and sought to contextualize it by introducing additional themes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Yearbook of History of Polish Press is the property of Polish Academy of Sciences and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The subject of discussion are religious themes present in the Polish-language general profile press for children and young people published on the area of the former Commonwealth in the years 1863-1918 by editors not directly connected with churches or religious associations. The considerations include the contents of several hundred magazines, nevertheless, detailed qualitative analysis was carried out on the following representative representations from the three partitions: "Przyjaciel Dzieci" (1863-1915), "Wieczory Rodzinne" (1880-1914), "Towarzysz Pilnych Dzieci" (1876-1883), "Mały Światek" (1888-1918), "Jutrzenka Polska" (1904-1914), "Anioł Stróż" (1895-1909) and "Przyjaciel Dziatwy" (1898-1914). The religious content played a significant role in these periodicals, ranging from 3.4% to 11.1% of the printed area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the geography and travel segment of the weekly Wiek Młody [Young Age], published in Lwów in 1893-1904. The material covered includes the itinerary, a specific subgenre that could often be found in magazines for children and teenagers at the turn of the 19th century. Apart from a series of quantitative and qualitative analyses of 54 texts, i.e. over 284 pages, this study also surveys the magazine's themes and narrative formats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Poetic space is one of the key categories of poetic expression and critical interpretation. Its construction reflects the poet’s perception of reality and his experiences, both in their biographical and conceptual aspects. Although Wisława Szymborska’s poems contain only few references to her private life, the appropriation of ‘alien’ places is an important feature of her poetic expression. She examines closely the workings of both natural and human history as they have shaped and left their mark on the landscape. While doing it, she usually assumes the persona of a scientist or a tourist. Though focused on a particular place, her poems always strive to go beyond the local horizon. It is as if the geography opened up to and needed to be complemented by a deeper anthropological experience. At the same time, the momentum of the transcendental reflection turns many of Szymborska’s poems into elements of a somewhat formalized poetic treatise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]