Elzbieta Matynia
Biographic Data
| ID | 341400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elzbieta Matynia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elzbieta |
| FAMILY NAME | Matynia |
| SIGNATURE | MATYNIA E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tribute to a Bridge: The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andrić
This essay is an appreciation of Ivo Andrić's novel, The Bridge on the Drina, and Georg Simmel's essay, "Bridge and Door," which provide an infrastructure for meaning and hope in times of social despair
An Uncanny Era: Conversations between Václav Havel and Adam Michnik
The first publication in book form of the historic postrevolution conversations between activist playwright and Czech president Vaclav Havel and Polish journalist Adam Michnik Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel first encountered Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik in 1978 at a clandestine meeting on a mountaintop along the Polish-Czechoslovak border. This initial meeting of two extraordinary thinkers who “plotted” democracy, and …
How to Kill a Democracy
Introduction: People to People
The discussion in this session addressed the issue of the artist in exile and the associated guilt of being outside, something perceived by those left behind as a reward, a life in a place that is free of any problems. Burmese artist and performer Chaw Ei spoke about the suspicion many held that she is using her political situation to enhance her celebrity status. Syrian playwright, actor, and theater director Naila al-Atrash argued that working …
Performative Democracy
fresh appreciation of the events of 1989 as we approach their 20th anniversary in 2009 Performative Democracy explores a potential in political life that easily escapes theorists: the indigenously inspired enacting of democracy by citizens. Written by one who experienced an emerging public sphere within Communist Poland, the book seeks to identify the conditions for performativity-performing politics--in public life. It examines a broad spectrum …
Performative Democracy
The Promise of Borderlands
And the Politics of Democratic Performativity
Introduction: 1989 And Beyond: the Future of Democracy
The Trouble with History: Tradition: Imprisonment or Liberation
Introduction: 1989 And Beyond: The Future of Democratic Politics (II)
Twenty Years Later: A Call for Existential Revolution: Vaclav Havel in Conversation with Adam Michnik
Poland Provoked: How Women Artists En-Gender Democracy
It is women artists who, by entering into an open debate with central elements of the Polish cultural tradition, pose the main questions concerning the nature of democratic citizenship, toleration, and pluralism
Provincializing Global Feminism: The Polish Case
IS GLOBALIZATION a threat to or an opportunity for local feminism ? In Poland, globalization intersects with three political and cultural processes: the post-1989 systemic transformation; the process of integration into the European Union; and the celebration of certain elements of the past long censored and now retrieved. When one looks at these processes through the lens of gender, one ends up with—if not necessarily an unclear, then at least a…
Furnishing Democracy at the End of the Century: The Polish Round Table and Others
Furnishing Democracy at the End of the Century: The Polish Round Table and Others
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism Adam Michnik (bio) What drives history? Individual actions or impersonal natural forces? In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville writes: Most [historians who live in democratic ages] attribute hardly any influence to the individual over the destiny of the race, or to citizens over the fate of a people; but, on the other hand, they assign great general causes to all petty incidents. . . . M. de Lafay…
Applause for a Donkey: An Interview with Krzysztof Zanussi by Zdzislaw Pietrasik
Krzysztof Zanussi, Zdzislaw Pietrasik, Elzbieta Matynia, Richard Adams, Applause for a Donkey: An Interview with Krzysztof Zanussi by Zdzislaw Pietrasik, Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2/3 (1990), pp. 21-28
Poetics of the Revolution: Some Notes from Poland
A Michnik reader
Hitler and the Artists.Henry Grosshans
Provincializing Global Feminism: The Polish Case
IS GLOBALIZATION a threat to or an opportunity for local feminism ? In Poland, globalization intersects with three political and cultural processes: the post-1989 systemic transformation; the process of integration into the European Union; and the celebration of certain elements of the past long censored and now retrieved. When one looks at these processes through the lens of gender, one ends up with—if not necessarily an unclear, then at least a…
And the Politics of Democratic Performativity
Furnishing Democracy at the End of the Century: The Polish Round Table and Others
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism Adam Michnik (bio) What drives history? Individual actions or impersonal natural forces? In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville writes: Most [historians who live in democratic ages] attribute hardly any influence to the individual over the destiny of the race, or to citizens over the fate of a people; but, on the other hand, they assign great general causes to all petty incidents. . . . M. de Lafay…
A Michnik reader
Hitler and the Artists.Henry Grosshans
A Michnik reader
Applause for a Donkey: An Interview with Krzysztof Zanussi by Zdzislaw Pietrasik
Krzysztof Zanussi, Zdzislaw Pietrasik, Elzbieta Matynia, Richard Adams, Applause for a Donkey: An Interview with Krzysztof Zanussi by Zdzislaw Pietrasik, Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2/3 (1990), pp. 21-28
Poetics of the Revolution: Some Notes from Poland
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism Adam Michnik (bio) What drives history? Individual actions or impersonal natural forces? In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville writes: Most [historians who live in democratic ages] attribute hardly any influence to the individual over the destiny of the race, or to citizens over the fate of a people; but, on the other hand, they assign great general causes to all petty incidents. . . . M. de Lafay…
Furnishing Democracy at the End of the Century: The Polish Round Table and Others
Furnishing Democracy at the End of the Century: The Polish Round Table and Others
Provincializing Global Feminism: The Polish Case
IS GLOBALIZATION a threat to or an opportunity for local feminism ? In Poland, globalization intersects with three political and cultural processes: the post-1989 systemic transformation; the process of integration into the European Union; and the celebration of certain elements of the past long censored and now retrieved. When one looks at these processes through the lens of gender, one ends up with—if not necessarily an unclear, then at least a…
Poland Provoked: How Women Artists En-Gender Democracy
It is women artists who, by entering into an open debate with central elements of the Polish cultural tradition, pose the main questions concerning the nature of democratic citizenship, toleration, and pluralism
And the Politics of Democratic Performativity
Introduction: 1989 And Beyond: the Future of Democracy
The Trouble with History: Tradition: Imprisonment or Liberation
Introduction: 1989 And Beyond: The Future of Democratic Politics (II)
Twenty Years Later: A Call for Existential Revolution: Vaclav Havel in Conversation with Adam Michnik
The Promise of Borderlands
Performative Democracy
fresh appreciation of the events of 1989 as we approach their 20th anniversary in 2009 Performative Democracy explores a potential in political life that easily escapes theorists: the indigenously inspired enacting of democracy by citizens. Written by one who experienced an emerging public sphere within Communist Poland, the book seeks to identify the conditions for performativity-performing politics--in public life. It examines a broad spectrum …
Performative Democracy
Introduction: People to People
The discussion in this session addressed the issue of the artist in exile and the associated guilt of being outside, something perceived by those left behind as a reward, a life in a place that is free of any problems. Burmese artist and performer Chaw Ei spoke about the suspicion many held that she is using her political situation to enhance her celebrity status. Syrian playwright, actor, and theater director Naila al-Atrash argued that working …
How to Kill a Democracy
An Uncanny Era: Conversations between Václav Havel and Adam Michnik
The first publication in book form of the historic postrevolution conversations between activist playwright and Czech president Vaclav Havel and Polish journalist Adam Michnik Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel first encountered Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik in 1978 at a clandestine meeting on a mountaintop along the Polish-Czechoslovak border. This initial meeting of two extraordinary thinkers who “plotted” democracy, and …
Tribute to a Bridge: The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andrić
This essay is an appreciation of Ivo Andrić's novel, The Bridge on the Drina, and Georg Simmel's essay, "Bridge and Door," which provide an infrastructure for meaning and hope in times of social despair
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