The aim of the article is to interpret Ignacy Karpowicz’s novel Balladyny i romanse in the context of romantic literature. The concept of romantic irony becomes the main theme and here in this article it distinguishes, in Karpowicz’s work, the aesthetic features that are characteristic of such romantic texts as Balladyna or Beniowski by Juliusz Słowacki. The contradictions that are characteristic of romantic irony in Karpowicz’s novel exist as a process of creating and destroying, where interweaving and complicating cultures and orders result in creating a chaotic but deliberate reality. The digressive character of the novel, metaliterary reflections and selfreference, reveal the author’s attitude to the creative process as an intellectual, romantic and ironic game.
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This article is an introduction to the idea of tradition which is present in H.-G. Gadamer’s thoughts. The author analyzes tradition in the context of the art experience. In the first part the author of this paper describes tradition in the broader hermeneutic context. The author depicts tradition and, consecutively: understanding, hermeneutic experience, ‘historically effected consciousness’, horizon, authority, prejudice. The second part addresses specifically Gadamer's thoughts on the arts as an experience of tradition. Gadamer's hermeneutic theory is interpreted as a presumptive solution to the problem of contemporary culture.
The article discusses the existence and functioning of the notion of canon in the social consciousness after 1989 in the context of Polish prose of the last twenty years. It points to two semantic circles connected with this notion: the first circle refers to literature and culture of the nation deeply rooted in tradition and confined in the past. The second circle is of polysemous character and refers to the contemporary literature and culture. The deliberations concentrate on the second semantic circle as the notion of national literature, the necessity of its existence in the nation and passing it to the next generations are undisputable. In the Polish culture after 1989, the notion of canons appears more often than the notion of a canon. The notion refers to phenomena that frequently exist on the border of literature, culture, and social life. For those phenomena, it builds canonical sets of texts defined and perceived as important and constitutive for their authors, and obligatory for their recipients. It becomes the vehicle for new literary qualities at the level of formal, thematic and problematic transformations. It is also a phenomenon that functions in the space of a particular culture and tradition with which it evolves.
The tradition of Estonians’ cultural festivals is a rich topic and may be considered profoundly distinctive for Estonian people. It is a unique way of maintaining and advancing the traditions of national heritage through a variety of activities. Since after World War II a forced separation took place in Estonian national culture and many citizens of the former Republic of Estonia escaped from the Soviet occupation to the Free World (thereby splitting geographically into the groups of homeland Estonians and Estonians abroad), the tradition of cultural festivals continued on both sides of the Iron Curtain, in an effort to maintain traditions under different circumstances. This special issue of the journal is the outcome of a project begun in 2012, to investigate the role of folk dance hobby activities and festival traditions in the maintenance of national culture. During the compilation of the special issue the focus shifted towards the question of the role of Estonians’ traditional festivals in the ever-changing world – their viability and transmission of the traditions of national identity both in Estonia and abroad. This issue covers the experiences of hobbyists in traditional cultural activities, their involvement in festivals, and their cultural contribution, both in Estonia and in communities outside it. Among the basic themes of the articles the following deserve special attention: the place of the Baltic countries’ song festivals in the world cultural heritage and the relationship between new and traditional songs; the role of dance festivals in the preservation and transmission of traditional dancing skills in contemporary Estonia and the nature of cultural heritage being maintained at dance festivals; the role of folk dance among the Skolt Saami, our neighbours in the North, in shaping their history, identity, and future, as well as the connections between contemporary Skolt Saami folk dance and identity; the revitalisation of old folk musical instrument traditions both in Estonia and among the Estonian diaspora; the split and repression in the realm of choir music, due to the forced separation by a foreign power; the recording of World War II refugees’ cultural events on narrow gauge film in Sweden and the identification of the filmed individuals by a group of experts. Another and not less important goal of this issue is to stimulate a more wide-ranging discussion in Estonian society about the role of hobbies and traditional festivals, especially outside Estonia, which are an integral part of Estonian national culture and Estonian folk culture.
The author looks at transformation of the Slovak literature after 1989 in a context of perception of changing collection of romantic myth, the perception of one's own identity and, consequently, the modification of the so-called national character. The aim of this paper is to show, describe and analyse Peter Pišťanek’s short story Mladý Dônč as an example of demythologizing tendences in Slovak prose in the 90s. The question is approached from comparative angle: author looks for links between the structure of the story Mladý Dônč, and hagiographic legends, fairy magic model and traditional Slovak legends of Juraj Janosik. Pišťanek’s ironic approach to the national mythology concerns primarily such its component like idealization of the rural Slovak family or position occupied by folklore in whole 19th century Slovak culture.
An overview of all the 1,973 songs that have appeared in seventy Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian national song celebration programmes from 1869 to the present day reveals a richly innovative, creative tradition: in each of the three festival repertoires, 74–84 percent of the songs were performed only once over the entire history of the national celebrations. When concert participants choose to repeat songs sung in previous years, they identify these songs as heritage. Sometimes, most notably in the retrospective Estonian programmes of 1969 and 2014, a large portion of the concert repertoire was repeated from the past. The tradition as a whole, however, is not necessarily past-oriented. Some celebrations have turned away from heritage. In the 1928 Estonian celebration, for example, only 2 percent of the programme (only one song) had ever been sung in an earlier celebration. This, too, is a heritage of song celebrations: future organisers are free to decide how many, if any, songs they wish to repeat from earlier festivals. The song festival tradition allows both innovative and conservative choice of repertoire at any given festival.
The article relates to the problem of cultural heritage. States that education should focus on this in the light of modernization and building standard of multicultural society. The Author deliberates the needed changes in cultural awareness of individuals through changes in the relation individual – culture. In the time of modernity these relation was mediated by tradition of the group. In the postmodernity we observe straight relation. In this regard need to be discussed reality of heritage and concept of tradition. The article ends with analyses of cultural pluralism – multiculturality and tranculturality as terms which creates different socio – cultural standards and designs different relation: individual – culture.
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This paper, which addresses the question of the relation between tradition and upbringing, assumes a conception of the person as a being with two fundamental characteristics: imperfection (incompleteness) and a capacity for being perfected by upbringing and education. Upbringing is then necessarily founded on tradition, on the continuity of generations – it is an introduction to a world which is older than all its current occupiers, and at the same time aims to prepare the young for a new life of their own in different conditions. The hermeneutical analysis of the connections between an historical consciousness, subject to a critical perspective on all that is handed down, with a tradition understood as the passing on of what has been received, makes a permanent claim on the upbringer and on upbringing. One of the possible ways of meeting this claim is presented by Gadamer in his conception of "legitimate prejudices", which bridges the divide between historical consciousness and tradition and, in addition, exploits the tension in upbringing we have mentioned.
The article attempts to read Wojciech Wencel’s poem Imago mundi, focusing mainly on the process of opening up the Polish literary tradition by the poet (both the classic genre forms and stylization, direct references to the particular authors or symbols common in the Polish literature). Moreover, the author examines the poet’s “forces of imagination,” his characteristic way of depiction, small “obsessions” and the otherness of the analysed poem.
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This paper proposes a reflection on architextual and metatextual questions suggested by five literary leaflets of the Raymond Cantel collection kept by the Centre de Recherches Latino Américaines (Poitiers, France). Between attachment to tradition and thirst for freedom, popular poets confront their views on an art that, as part of a canon and defending their identity, has been able to state the ambiguity that defines it and to adapt itself to the evolution of society, beyond the folkloric assumptions to which it was sometimes reduced.
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Analiza wybranych przykładów współczesnych realizacji architektury sakralnej, pokazująca różnorodne sposoby kształtowania bryły oraz otoczenia w nawiązaniu do tradycji i tożsamości miejsca.
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In the article we find analisys of religious buildings, which are good examples of interesting modern interpretation of traditional architectural forms.
The approach of the French school investigating places of memory is tested in different areas, including: traces in the landscape, artistic tradition, reuse of building materials and structures, funeral rites and expressions of group identity in various domains in antiquity, thereby offering the possibility of collaboration between historians and archaeologists.
Every discipline has its own special terms regarded to be the “difficult” ones. Very often these are part of the achievements of many generations of scholars, in the same time being components of colloquial language. Such an example for ethnology would be „folk culture”. The term is popularly understood as idealized pictures of Polish camp’s social life. For specialists, though, the term is very wide-ranging, multidimensional and set in a specific historical context. Still there is a ground for agrement and creation between academic research and popular understanding that involves activities taken by employees of cultural institutions. In their struggle to respond to a public demand, they face a dilemma of how folk culture should be widespread. On one hand, they see the presented topics to be appealing, they also recognize the possibilities lying in its educational values (craft’s demonstrations and workshops). On the other hand, they are aware of its artificialness and of their setting up meanings yet outdated. These dilemmas may as well be associated to the way ethnologists are educated in the field of regional cultures, where they are trained for potential ‘specialists’ of folk culture.
The study concerns Polish fencing (hussar sabre fighting) and Japanese kenjutsu (art of sword). It focuses on forms of their promotion as well as popularization and its scope. In the light of history, theoretical sociology and anthropology of martial arts selected relevant facts are discussed in an attempt to explain the reasons for the changes which have occured. An attempt is also made to compare the progress of the process of institutionalization in the case of both martial arts. Three complementary qualitative research methods were used: a long-term observation in the role of a participant (25 years), content analysis of the literature and the case study. In addition, the author presents the case study of an international seminar on kenjutsu of the Katori Shinto-ryu school organized in Kraków. The date of the seminar coincided with the 20th anniversary of the battle demonstration where a representative of the fencing school fought against W. Zabłocki, a master of the Polish hussar sabre, and the 25th anniversary of practising martial arts of aikibudō and kobudō in Poland (including kenjutsu of the said school). Japanese kenjutsu is much more advanced in comparison to the Polish historical art of fencing in terms of institutionalization and popularization. However, the two-day seminar on old Japanese fencing in Krakow was an example of a cultural meeting, dialogue and educational experience confirming validity of the theory of dialogue between cultures. Polish martial arts as part of the national heritage need to be supported by the state government.
Without glorifying any cultural standpoint I argue that the best model that accounts for the interests and aspirations of Africa cannot be that which promotes and emphasiz-es traditional ideas since such a model would be unnecessarily insular and prevent us from engaging the aspects of our cultures which are needed in coping with Africa’s challenges. I contend that this does not amount to an imposition of any form of metanar-rative but rather to critically engage those forces that are detrimental to survival and social stability.
This paper examines the public debate about Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas (Saint-Nicolas) and particularly the character of Zwarte Piet, the black-faced helper. His apparent racist nature has been subject of debate in Dutch media for years. However, in 2013 the debate escalated and provoked social conflicts and verbal aggression. The paper gives some explanations why this happened. The case of Zwarte Piet is noteworthy because it shows that Dutch society, well-known for being tolerant and open-minded, is not entirely free of ethnic and national tensions. This Old Dutch tradition that had been shaped in the times of colonialism and slavery, has become a hot issue in todays’ multicultural society. The paper includes considerations concerning the emergence of social conflicts and the meaning of postmodern national and ethnic identity. Additionally, it discusses the role of social media in fuelling the debate. Conclusions are based on analysis of social media content (television, Internet) and publications in the Dutch press from October to December 2013.
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Artykuł dotyczy debaty społecznej toczącej się wokół holenderskiej tradycji Sinterklaasa (świętego Mikołaja), a szczególnie wokół postaci Zwarte Piet – pomocnika z uszminkowaną na czarno twarzą. Jego wyraźnie negroidalny wygląd rodzi oskarżenia o rasizm i dlatego od wielu już lat wywołuje dyskusje w holenderskich mediach. W roku 2013 miała miejsce szczególnie ostra dyskusja, która prowadziła do konfliktów oraz agresji słownej. W artykule podjęto próbę wyjaśnienia przyczyny tej sytuacji. Problem postaci Zwarte Piet jest godny uwagi, ponieważ pokazuje, że społeczeństwo holenderskie, uchodzące za tolerancyjne i otwarte, nie jest całkowicie wolne od napięć o charakterze etnicznym i narodowym. Dawna holenderska tradycja, która ukształtowała się w czasach kolonializmu i niewolnictwa, stała się poważnym problemem we współczesnym wielokulturowym społeczeństwie. Artykuł zawiera rozważania na temat powstawania konfliktów społecznych oraz nowoczesnej świadomości etnicznej i narodowej. Ponadto porusza zagadnienie roli mediów w zaostrzaniu dyskusji i towarzyszącej jej agresji. Wnioski zostały oparte o analizę treści medialnych (telewizja, internet) oraz artykułów prasowych, które pojawiały się od października do grudnia 2013 roku.
The article tries to show Harasymowicz as a poet working under the influence of two cultures. In his poetry relations of Polish and Ukrainian cultures are shown on the cultural and historical background, which are even evident in his first volume of poetry which was published in 1956. The geographical area of the Carpathian mountains and Low Beskids hold a special place in his poetry. Family tradition, objectivity of the poet and his delight in mountain scenery for „the dream and a fairy-tale world” created a metaphorical image of the area and people living in it.
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The Cape‑Verdean community is one of the most traditional and most important immigrant groups in Portugal. Since the first arrivals to the Portuguese land, the Cape‑Verdean people have settled in the Lisbon area. The cabo‑verdianos community actively participate in the artistic milieu of the multicultural Portuguese capital. Music has always been considered as one of the most relevant mechanisms of transmission of the Cape‑Verdean identity. The multiplicity of musical forms present both in the archipelago territory and in the Diaspora environment is a real proof of the creolization of the Cape‑Verdean culture. This paper aims to describe the interdependence between the musical creation of Cape‑Verdean immigrants (and especially the young Portuguese of Cape‑Verdean origins) and their searching for, re‑interpreting and defining the own cultural identity.
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In this paper I would like to present some problems of tradition in the context of globalization and politics, because this notion lies at the heart of contemporary anthropological reflections. In the vocabulary of studies on society and culture the words "tradition" and "traditional" belong to the most commonly used. Today, the current globalization processes have significantly transformed its meaning.
The author of the article tries to use margin as a category in the history of literature. She concentrates on those writers whose works can be regarded as existing on the margins (Villon, de Sade) or those whose works feature people living „on the margins” of society. Writers often portrayed people who lived on the edge of society (Villon, Hugo, Genet), those who were rejected by society because of their individual features (Simplicyssimus, Guliwer), or those with clear philosophical ideas that were aimed at social norms and tradition (the heroes of de Sade, Rimbaud, Turgieniev). Some of these people decided to leave society to exist on its margins, use alcohol and drugs, feel alienated and unable to find their own place in the world (heroes of de Quincey, Bułhakov, Hesse).
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