Narrating Jewish history in free walking tours – Warsaw as a case study

Telling history in guided city tours means negotiating it with the audiences on the ground. The narration does not only have to be anchored in the specific urban space, it also has to meet the tourists’ expectations, pre...

Co kultura popularna zrobiła z Żydem Wiecznym Tułaczem? Współczesne renarracje legendy o Ahaswerze.

The main purpose of the article is an analysis of the ways of existence of the Wandering Jew character in contemporary culture. Considerations include literary texts, movies, comic books and computer games. In the 20th a...

Fascynujące światy pełne wampirów, kosmitów i postaci baśniowych. Czyli jak telewizja (serialowa) zaanektowała irracjonalność

The Place of Folklore within the Construction of the Contemporary World.

The paper answers the question, how folkloristic narrations participate in the social construction of reality. The notion of folklore relates here -in accordance with propositions of P.G. Bogatyrev and R. Jakobson – to p...

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