The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367691622 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 450 str.

Tomasz Bilczewski; Stanley Bill; Magdalena Popiel

Opis

The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature offers an introduction to Polish literature through 33 case studies, covering works from the middle ages up to the present day. Each chapter draws on a text or body of work, examining its historical context, as well as its international reception and position within world literature.

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Introduction: Polish Literature and Its Worlds  PART 1: OLD POLISH LITERATURE: MIDDLE AGES, RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE  1. In Search of Origins: Bogurodzica  2. World Order in a Harmonious Hymn: Jan Kochanowski’s "What Dost Thou of Us Require, Lord, for Thy Plenteous Graces?"  3. A Child’s Death, the Poet’s Immortality: Jan Kochanowski’s Laments  4. The Poetry of “Passage”: Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński’s Sonnets  PART 2: SOURCES OF MODERNITY: THE ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACY  5. The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom: Reading Ignacy Krasicki with Kant  6. The “Fairytale” Magic of Speech: Franciszek Karpiński’s Lukierda’s Plaint  7. Is Jan Potocki’s The Manuscript Found in Saragossa a Polish Work?  8. The Letters of Jewish Lovers in Dutch: Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz’s Levi and Sarah  PART 3: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: ROMANTICISM AND POSITIVISM  9. The Culture of Memory: Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz  10. Adam Mickiewicz: Two Poems and their Brazilian Readings  11. "Being’s Fated Shade": Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s "Irony"  12. Bolesław Prus’s The Doll: Polish Historical Vistas from a Japanese Perspective  13. Toward Mass Culture: The Global Renown of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis  PART 4: POLISH MODERNISM: FROM YOUNG POLAND TO THE INTERWAR PERIOD  14. Stanisław Brzozowski’s Flames  15. “Rebellion Against Boundaries”: Bolesław Leśmian’s The Meadow  16. The Polish Avant-Garde in Japan: Bruno Jasieński’s I Burn Paris  17. “A Man on the Brink of Disaster”: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s Insatiability  18. History and Myth: Bruno Schulz’s Spring  19. Psychological Realism and Modernist Poetics: Zofia Nałkowska’s Boundary  PART 5: POSTWAR LITERATURE: TRAUMA, EXILE, IDENTITY  20. Witness and Form: Tadeusz Borowski’s This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen  21. Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s A World Apart  22. Making Sense of Trans-Atlantyk: The Reception of Witold Gombrowicz’s Exile Novel in Norway  23. Archaism as a Tool of Change: Reflections on a Poem by Czesław Miłosz  24. Stanisław Jerzy Lec’s Unkempt Thoughts  25. Stanisław Lem’s Solaris: Interpretations in the Russian-Speaking World  26. Translating Memory: The Reception of Miron Białoszewski’s A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising in North America  PART 6: BEYOND IDEOLOGY: LITERATURE OF THE LAST FOUR DECADES  27. The Drama of Otherness: Tadeusz Różewicz’s White Marriage  28. Wisława Szymborska: “Writing a résumé”  29. Zbigniew Herbert and Antiquity: Poetry, Oppression, and "the Classic"  30. The Untranslatable Trope: Mariusz Wilk’s "Russian" Cycle  31. A Thicket of Hieroglyphs and Ideograms: Ryszard Kapuściński’s Travels with Herodotus  32. "Try to Praise the Mutilated World": Adam Zagajewski and the Poetry of 9/11  33. Micro-suspense and the Desire to Keep Reading: Translating Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob  AFTERWORD: A World History of Polish Literature