On Literary Issues in Tygodnik Powszechny (1945-1953)

ISBN-13: 9783659967122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 228 str.

Evelina Kristanova

Opis

During its initial publication period between 1945 and 1953, the Krakow-based Tygodnik Powszechny played an exceptional role in the history of Polish press. In the era of growing Communist terror and censorship control which followed the 'liberation' of Poland by the Red Army, the journal, managing to withstand political pressure, garnered a large and varied readership,. As a universal, independent Catholic socio-cultural periodical, it went on to become a phenomenon throughout the whole of Central and Eastern Europe appropriated by the USRR after the Second World War. This work focuses on the literature-related issues discussed in the periodical, which have never before been scrutinised scientifically. The reception of the selected works by Polish and foreign authors turned out to be a sort of spiritual retreat and an intellectual asylum in the times of the forcibly imposed Communist ideology.

O autorze

Evelina Kristanova, PhD (born 1970 in Sofia) is an academic teacher and lecturer with over 20 years of experience. She is also a press expert, a bibliologist and theologist. She specialises in Polish socio-cultural periodicals with a Catholic focus, published between 1918 and 1939, and between 1945 and 1953. She has written three monographs.