Bilingual Autobiographical Poetry of Henry Beissel

ISBN-13: 9783631898826 / Angielski

Marek Wilczyński; Paulina Katarzyna Nowak

Opis

The study is a comparative reading of Henry Beissel's Canadian-German autobiographical long poem. It examines writer's biography and the theories of memory, autobiography and bilingualism. It refers to metafiction, the poetic child's figure and writing trauma, as well as explores poetic complexities of memory and identity.

Spis treści

Henry Beissel, autobiography, autobiographical literature, life writing, bilingual poetry, bilingual writer, bilingualism, self-translation, memory, autobiographical memory, bilingual memory, trauma, comparative reading, Canadian poetry, Canadian-German writer, post-war poetry, metafiction, identity, long poem

O autorze

Paulina Katarzyna Nowak-Kurzyna holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Szczecin (Poland) and is the member of Polish Association for Canadian Studies. Her academic interests focus on poetry, Canadian literature, bilingualism, memory studies and autobiographical writing.