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The monograph attempts to examine the relationship between collective memory and oral texts. The material basis for this presentation consists of folklore oral texts, both prosaic and poetic, different as regards their genres (fairy tales, fables, recollections, traditions, legends, proverbs, and songs).

Balkan Cinema is a result of a common cultural space shared by different nations. While operating under a blanket perspective on the region, Balkan filmmakers produced diverse narratives creatively responding to their situation. This volume features how films entangled these issues including wars, national identity, and cultural exchanges.

This work concerns the transmission of the Bible within Catholic and Orthodox tradition in rural communities from central Poland to Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine during the collapse of the USSR. The folk Bible is linked to Christian and Jewish Apocrypha, and biblical topics mingle with local legends and expressions of identity.

This book examines literary representations of war, flood and earthquakes in twentieth and twenty-first century Japan using trauma as a focus. The book focuses mainly on poetry but also analyzing various prose works. This topic has been explored previously by scholars of European literature but rarely in studies of modern Japanese literature.

This book presents new research assumptions aiming at a significant expansion of a typical, common paradigm of law sciences and focuses on the process of law-making, an important subject of interest in broadly understood legal sciences. The multiplicity of points of view, allows the authors to present a multi-faceted image of law-making processes.

The present book offers an interpretation of social life developed during a century of sociological thought at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. It was the authors' intention to combine a historical perspective (the genesis of thoughts and concepts) with a detailed discussion of ideas (theoretical premises).

The book discusses the relation between translation and power and how it shapes what one ultimately sees in translated texts.

Untersuchung des gesetzlichen Insolvenzschutzes betrieblicher Altersversorgung durch den Pensions-Sicherungs-Verein und Skizzierung der Rechtsfolgen in der Unternehmensinsolvenz. Darstellung von Gestaltungsmoglichkeiten privatvertraglicher Insolvenzsicherungsmechanismen wie Contractual Trust Arrangements.

This study updates reader-response criticism as the foundation of aesthetic reading in the classroom by bringing it in line with cognitive theories in literary studies and linguistics. Such a framework facilitates a consistent theoretical approach to autobiographical comics.

Die Publikation untersucht, ob Spanien die Vorgaben des UEbereinkommens zum Schutz der finanziellen Interessen der Europaischen Gemeinschaft aus dem Jahre 1995 wirksam umgesetzt hat. Das Buch behandelt die Bestimmungen des spanischen Strafgesetzbuches zum Steuer- und Subventionsbetrug, der Steuerhinterziehung und der Haftung der juristischen Person.

Der Band bietet aus verschiedenen Perspektiven eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Kritik, die drei fuhrende Theoretiker - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger und Carl Schmitt - in der ersten Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts am traditionellen Regelverstandnis geubt haben.

The book reconstructs the values, norms, experiences and power structures underlying the understandings of the holy and the sacred in early modern Christian contexts, intending to gain a characteristic profile of the associated concepts, persons, objects, texts, times, spaces and performances.

The book shows the heterogeneity of Polish Romanticism, which is often unfairly narrowed in its reception abroad to the issue of nationality. The authors focus on the history of Poland and Russia in the nineteenth century, but also address aesthetic problems concerning the ideas of truth and beauty, irony and mysticism, and the role of tradition.