On Turns and on Moving around in Circles. Some Memories and Lose Thoughts on Ewa Domanska´s 60th. birthday. (original) (raw)

Life Path and a Creative Activity of O.S. Moussienko (On the Occasion of the 80TH Anniversary)

National Academy of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts Herald, 2018

The purpose of work is to study and analyze the life path and the creative activity of the famous Ukrainian film critic and the teacher, the professor, the Honored Artist of Ukraine, the corresponding member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine O.S. Moussienko. Research methodology consists in application of biographical, historical-cultural, systematic and theoretical and generalizing methods. The marked methodological approaches allow to collect and investigate the contribution made by Oksana Stanislavivna Moussienko in the science of cinema and media pedagogy. The scientific novelty of work lies in the fact that, unfortunately, domestic researchers not often highlight the activities of those, who devoted himself or herself to the study of the cinema process, of all its complexities, contradictions, and achievements. Conclusions. In summary, we would like to note that the set research tasks were fulfilled. The contribution made by Oksana Stanislavivna Moussienko in the science of cinema and media pedagogy was analyzed, the creative and life path of O.S. Moussienko's parents was studied, her track record with pedagogical activities in the field of cinematography at the Cinema Studies Department of Screen Arts Institute of the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University was reconstructed; O.S. Moussienko's best graduate students, Doctors of Philosophy (Ph. D.) on specialty 17.00.04-Cinematographic Art, Television, who successfully defended their thesis before the Specialized Academic Board of M.T. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine were named, and the list of her most important publications in books and magazines in Ukraine and abroad was provided.

Ekaterina Belousova. Books prepared for publication in 2022-2023

The New Literary Review; Nestor - History, 2022

Vladimirovna Dushechkina (1941-2020) contains scholarly articles and memoirs written by literary scholars, historians, anthropologists-her colleagues, friends and students from around the world. The topics of the articles presented in this collection reflect a wide range of issues raised by Professor Dushechkina in her own articles and booksfrom the poetics and textual criticism of Medieval Russian literature to modern calendar rituals. The memoir section contains materials about the life and work of the scholar. The book is of interest to researchers, university faculty, and students in the fields of humanities and social sciences, as well as to a wide range of readers interested in the problems of Russian literature and culture.

[review] Olga Bembel’-Dedok, Vospominaniya / [рец.] Ольга Бембель-Дедок "Воспоминания"

The Memoirs of female sculptor Olga Bembel’-Dedok (1906-1974) offer a new perspective “from within” on Belarusian history, culture, and identity throughout the first half of the twentieth century. This very personal, incisive book also asks us to re-consider our point of reference in the discussion of Belarusian political, economic and social transformations. Bembel’-Dedok’s Memoirs is more than just the collected notes of someone’s personal life, it is a book that raises many important questions about Belarus itself: what we find ‘acceptable’ to remember and how we incorporate ‘memory-based’ understanding of politics, society and culture into ‘public’ history and academic discourse. The re-contextualisation of classes and estates is one such problematic topic. For example, the personal content of Bembel’-Dedok’s memoirs points out the contradiction of the ‘ideological’ equality of a Soviet ‘class-less’ society in which every individual did not have equal access to available resources.

Loneliness over a Piece of Paper. Maria Dąbrowska as an Epistolographer

Tematy i Konteksty, 2020

The article discusses Maria Dąbrowska’s vast correspondence, which complete, in a way, her „Dzienniki” [Journals] , constituting very valuable biographical material, so far published only in selected fragments. Among many of her sets of letters, the most interesting ones are those exchanged with her husband, Marian Dąbrowski, her partner, Stanisław Stempowski, and later on with his son, Jerzy, as well as with her very close friend and partner, Anna Kowalska. This article discusses the most important sets of letters from and to Dąbrowska, indicating their historical value and biographical significance.

Olga Tokarczuk: The Right Time and Place

Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, 2020

This essay examines Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk’s works, especially "Flights" and "Księgi Jakubowe" (the English- language version, "The Books of Jacob is scheduled for publication in March 2021), with special attention to Tokarczuk’s recurrent themes and the challenges of rendering her often allusive and myth-laden prose into English. As expressed in The Books of Jacob’s subtitle, Imagination . . . Is Humani- ty’s Greatest Natural Gift. In The Books of Jacob Tokarczuk’s imagination, exhaustive research, and writing skills have brought to life Poland in the eigh- teenth century, with all its ethnic groups, tragedies, atrocities, cultural achievements, aspirations, and conflicts, as well as its interconnection with Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, and Protestant developments in Eastern and Cen- tral Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Flights dissects the crucial fragmenta- tion of modern life, developing the importance of wandering, journeys, and time. Tokarczuk’s writing seamlessly shifts from mythological motifs to real- ist accounts of locations and objects, to subtle depictions of human activities and motives, and to the grand scope of the history of Eastern Europe and the role of religions.

Sobranie sochinenii [Collected Works], vol. 7, book 1: Zhurnal puteshestviia: Dnevnik 1901-1903. Istoriia moei dushi [Record of a Journey: Diary, 1901-3. The Story of My Soul], and: O Makse, o Koktebele, o sebe: Vospominaniia. Pis´ma [On Max, Koktebel´, and Myself: Memoirs. Letters], and: Maximil...

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2007