The Routledge world companion to Polish literature. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tomasz Bilczewski, Stanley Bill, Magdalena Popiel.
• Editors: Bilczewski, Tomasz, 1978-; Bill, Stanley; Popiel, Magdalena
• Contents: Tomasz Bilczewski, Stanley Bill, and Magdalena Popiel Introduction: Polish Literature and Its Worlds PART 1 OLD POLISH LITERATURE: MIDDLE AGES, RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE 1. In Search of Origins: Bogurodzica Emiliano Ranocchi 2. World Order in a Harmonious Hymn: Jan Kochanowski’s "What Dost Thou of Us Require, Lord, for Thy Plenteous Graces?" Andrea Ceccherelli 3. A Child’s Death, the Poet’s Immortality: Jan Kochanowski’s Laments Charles Zaremba 4. The Poetry of “Passage”: Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński’s Sonnets Luigi Marinelli PART 2 SOURCES OF MODERNITY: THE ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACY 5. The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom : Reading Ignacy Krasicki with Kant Bożena Shallcross 6. The “Fairytale” Magic of Speech: Franciszek Karpiński’s Lukierda’s Plaint Rolf Fieguth 7. Is Jan Potocki’s The Manuscript Found in Saragossa a Polish Work? François Rosset 8. The Letters of Jewish Lovers in Dutch: Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz’s Levi and Sarah Kris Van Heuckelom PART 3 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: ROMANTICISM AND POSITIVISM 9. The Culture of Memory: Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz Brigita Speičytė 10. Adam Mickiewicz: Two Poems and their Brazilian Readings Henryk Siewierski 11. "Being’s Fated Shade": Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s "Irony" Michał Mrugalski 12. Bolesław Prus’s The Doll : Polish Historical Vistas from a Japanese Perspective Tokimasa Sekiguchi 13. Toward Mass Culture: The Global Renown of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis Monika Woźniak PART 4 POLISH MODERNISM: FROM YOUNG POLAND TO THE INTERWAR PERIOD 14. Stanisław Brzozowski’s Flames Jens Herlth 15. “Rebellion Against Boundaries”: Bolesław Leśmian’s The Meadow Katia Vandenborre 16. The Polish Avant-Garde in Japan: Bruno Jasieński’s I Burn Paris Ariko Kato 17. “A Man on the Brink of Disaster”: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s Insatiability Michał Paweł Markowski 18. History and Myth: Bruno Schulz’s Spring Stanley Bill 19. Psychological Realism and Modernist Poetics: Zofia Nałkowska’s Boundary Ursula Phillips PART 5 POSTWAR LITERATURE: TRAUMA, EXILE, IDENTITY 20. Witness and Form: Tadeusz Borowski’s This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Bożena Karwowska 21. Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s A World Apart Maria Delaperrière 22. Making Sense of Trans-Atlantyk : The Reception of Witold Gombrowicz’s Exile Novel in Norway Knut Andreas Grimstad 23. Archaism as a Tool of Change: Reflections on a Poem by Czesław Miłosz Tomas Venclova 24. Stanisław Jerzy Lec’s Unkempt Thoughts Leonard Neuger 25. Stanisław Lem’s Solaris : Interpretations in the Russian-Speaking World Wiktor Jaźniewicz 26. Translating Memory: The Reception of Miron Białoszewski’s A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising in North America Joanna Niżyńska PART 6 BEYOND IDEOLOGY: LITERATURE OF THE LAST FOUR DECADES 27. The Drama of Otherness: Tadeusz Różewicz’s White Marriage Tamara Trojanowska 28. Wisława Szymborska: “Writing a résumé” Giovanna Tomassucci 29. Zbigniew Herbert and Antiquity: Poetry, Oppression, and "the Classic" Arent van Nieukerken 30. The Untranslatable Trope: Mariusz Wilk’s "Russian" Cycle Irina Adelgeym 31. A Thicket of Hieroglyphs and Ideograms: Ryszard Kapuściński’s Travels with Herodotus Wu Lan 32. "Try to Praise the Mutilated World": Adam Zagajewski and the Poetry of 9/11 Clare Cavanagh 33. Micro-suspense and the Desire to Keep Reading: Translating Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob Jennifer Croft AFTERWORD: A World History of Polish Literature Norman Davies
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 891.8509; Polish literature -- History and criticism; Polish literature -- Appreciation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000453621; 9781000453591; 9781003140689
• Related ISBNs: 9780367691622
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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