Modal Adverbs in English and Polish

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A Generic History of Travel Writing in Anglophone and Polish Literature offers a comprehensive, comparative and generic analysis of developments of travel writing in Anglophone and Polish literature from the Late Medieval Period to the twenty-first century. These developments are depicted in a wider context of travel narratives written in other European languages. Grzegorz Moroz convincingly argues that, for all the similarities and cross-cultural influences, in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century non-fiction Anglophone and Polish travel writing have dynamically evolved different generic horizons of expectations. While the Anglophone travel book developed relatively steadily in that period, the Polish genre of the podróż was first replaced by the listy (kartki) z podróży, and then by the reportaż podróżniczy.

Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts of generation and gender, which are used in the book as analytical categories in an intersectional overlap.

Trzynastu badaczy podjęło się krytyki dominującej narracji o komunizmie w Polsce, proponując nowe analizy tego pojęcia, a także badając przejawy antykomunizmu. Publikacja jest wynikiem prac w ramach grantu NPRH (2013-2020) pod kierownictwem prof. Michała Głowińskiego. Grant był realizowany w Ośrodku Studiów Kulturowych i Literackich nad Komunizmem IBL PAN.