Warsaw Folk and Fairy Tale Studies
The series is the publishing branch of the Folk- and Fairy-Tale Studies Interdisciplinary Research Group (Bajkoznawczy Zespół Badawczy – IBZB / Interdisziplinärer Märchenkundlicher Forschungskreis – IMF) established in 2019 at the Institute of German Studies, University of Warsaw. The team includes researchers from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the United States, Benin, Georgia, and Poland. Its main purpose is to conduct research in the following fields: folk tales and the related genres of folk literature, literary fairy tales, the past and present of fairy-tale studies, fairy-tale motifs in literature, comparative fairy-tale studies, portrayals and functions of fairy tales in children’s and young adults’ fiction, reception of fairy tales, collectors of fairy tales, fabulists and their literary profiles.
- The books deals with the part Polish exiles played in the colonial expansion of the Russian Empire on the Kazakh steppes of Central Asia in the 19th century. The issue is discussed on the selected texts by three Polish political prisoners: Adolf
