Annales Academiae/Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis: Recent submissions
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Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. 155. Studia Geographica 5
(Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego, Kraków, 2014) -
Kuřim – the largest small town in the South-Moravian Region (Czechia)
(2015)The author has dealt with a role of the small city of Kuřim (population ca. 11,000) in the suburban zone of Brno. Based on statistical data and field research, this small towns was analysed with its own activities in ... -
Conditions of divided towns development – an example of Guben and Gubin
(2015)The article concerns about conditions of development of a peculiar small towns – Guben (German) and Gubin (Polish). Their situation is interesting with reference to their border location, as well as peripheral and divided ... -
Models of service systems in the split towns of the Polish-German and Polish-Czech borderlands
(2015)On the basis of an empirical study, this article offers some generalisations concerning service systems characteristic of split towns in East-Central Europe. Three frontier urban complexes were examined, including two ... -
Development of educational services in small towns of the Małopolskie and Podkarpackie voivodeships
(2015)The aim of this study was to present the variety of educational services in small towns of Małopolskie and Podkarpackie voivodeships. Performance of educational services is determined by numerous factors, of which the ... -
Endogenous capital of small towns in the Poznań agglomeration
(2015)The aim of this paper is to identify the endogenous capital of small towns in the Poznań agglomeration and to analyse its role in their development. The agglomeration of Poznań (a NUTS 4 unit) is located centrally in the ... -
The role of industry in the labour market of small towns
(2015)The problem of changing and shrinking economic base of many small towns causes necessity of searching new paths of development for them. Central service functions existing in those towns previously are largely washed out ... -
Influence range of towns in the light of economic linkages – an example of small and medium-sized towns in the Lodz voivodeship
(2015)The main aim of the author was to determine the influence range of towns in the light of their economic linkages. The text is part of the author’s larger research project which focuses on the problem of identification ... -
Population changes as litmus paper of the socio-economic development level of small towns in Poland
(2015)The main aim of the author was to analyse the population changes of small towns in Poland between 2002 and 2012. Small towns’ reaction to the global and regional demographic trends confirms their position between the ... -
Small towns in peripheral regions of Germany
(2015)The paper summarizes the main findings of a study on small towns in peripheral locations in Germany. In its first part, the results of the data analysis are presented and the spatial distribution of shrinking and growing ... -
Between shrinking and blooming: the crossroad of small towns’ urbanisation in Hungary
(2015)The authors present an overview about small towns’ urbanisation in Hungary. Following the specific aspects and factors of their urbanisation in the last centuries, the authors conclude that 20 years after the political ... -
The paradoxical place of small towns in sustainable development policies. What is beyond the images of “places where the living is easy”?
(2015)Sustainable development policies have become new objectives of local actions since the implementation of the notion in the 1990s. Small towns promote images of places where the living is easy and with sustainable amenities ... -
On furtive persistence of selfhood in three ekphrastic poems
(2014)The aim of this article is to investigate whether ekphrastic poetry, which by its very nature tends to focus solely on the element of pure description, allows one to compose verse entirely purged of any traces of authorial ... -
‘Alas! The Irish peasant had tasted of famine and found that it was good’: The Times and The Great Irish Famine
(2014)The Great Irish Famine (1845–1852) played a pivotal role in the history of Ireland and Great Britain. It was a serious blot on the achievements of the British Empire, which exacerbated the strained relationship between ... -
Under which Lord? The conflict between obedience and freedom of conscience in the Victorian religious novel
(2014)One of the issues regularly cropping up in Protestant polemic writings was the issue of the legitimacy of the Church of England. Attacked both by Dissenters and Roman Catholics as an “Act-of-Parliament” church, it defended ... -
Religious motifs in Andy Warhol’s selected visual realizations
(2014)Commonly associated with pop art and consumerism, Andy Warhol’s artistic output is a complex phenomenon, full of ambiguity and binary oppositions. The same could be said about his life in which religion, though not ... -
A ‘Knight of faith’ looking into the face of the other: existential transformation of dean Jocelin from William Golding’s The Spire
(2014)William Golding in his novel The Spire presents to the reader a surprisingly true to life story of a man who undergoes an existential transformation from Kierkegaard’s ‘knight’ through Sartre’s ‘being’ arriving at Levinas’s ... -
At the threshold of the dark: death, guilt, responsibility, and the question of normalcy in W. Irving’s The adventure of the german student and E. A. Poe’s The black cat – a deconstructive reading
(2014)Washington Irving’s short story “The Adventure of the German Student” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” express psychological complexity of such categories as death, guilt, or responsibility. Both narratives are ... -
Loss made good: John Clare and Edward Thomas on poetry as a healing substance
(2014)The essay seeks to establish the significance of the mood of ‘loss made good’ in the poetry of John Clare and Edward Thomas, who are often labelled as ‘poets of nature.’ Rather than follow the reductive stereotyping, the ...