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Poland's Transformation
Poland has carried out two peaceful revolutions in the span of one generation: first, the self-limiting movement of Solidarity, which undermined the legitimacy of Communism and then a negotiated transfer of power from Communism to free market democracy. Today, while Poland is seen as a success story and is joining political and economic associations in the democratic West, Poles themselves seem downcast. They ask: is social anomie a price worth paying for a successful transformation? In making moral compromises with an outgoing tyranny, can one avoid cynicism and disappointment with democracy? Zbigniew Brzezinski, professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University has called Po...
Underground Modernity
The literary scholar Alfrun Kliems explores the aesthetic strategies of Eastern European underground literature, art, film and music in the decades before and after the fall of communism, ranging from the ‘father’ of Prague Underground, Egon Bondy, to the neo-Dada Club of Polish Losers in Berlin. The works she considers are "underground" in the sense that they were produced illegally, or were received as subversive after the regimes had fallen. Her study challenges common notions of ‘underground’ as an umbrella term for nonconformism. Rather, it depicts it as a sociopoetic reflection of modernity, intimately linked to urban settings, with tropes and aesthetic procedures related to Su...
The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry
An illuminating new study of modern Polish verse in performance, offering a major reassessment of the roles of poets and poetry in twentieth-century Polish culture. WhatÕs in a voice? Why record oneself reading a poem that also exists on paper? In recent decades, scholars have sought to answer these questions, giving due credit to the art of poetry performance in the anglophone world. Now Aleksandra Kremer trains a sharp ear on modern Polish poetry, assessing the rising importance of authorial sound recordings during the tumultuous twentieth century in Eastern Europe. Kremer traces the adoption by key Polish poets of performance practices intimately tied to new media. In Polish hands, tape ...
Wanderers Across Language
"Exile has become a potent symbol of Polish and Irish cultures. Historical, political and cultural predicaments of both countries have branded them as diasporic nations: but, in Adorno's dictum, for an exile writing becomes home. Olszewska offers a multifaceted picture of the figure of exile in postwar Poland and Ireland, juxtaposing politics and culture: whereas Irish exile appears more in an economic and cultural context, the essence of Polish exile is political. This comparative study of works by Polish and Irish authors - Stanislaw Baranczak, Adam Zagajewski, Marek Hlasko, Kazimierz Brandys, Brian Moore, Desmond Hogan and Paul Muldoon - shows a literature which not only depicts the experience of exile, but which uses exile as a literary device."
Literature, Translation, and the Politics of Meaning
This book deals mostly with American avant-garde literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the present-day practice and politics of its translation into Polish, trying to answer the following questions: What are the meaning and the limits of avantgardism? What is the rationale of literary translations and what is their life-cycle in receiving literary polysystems? Furthermore: What is the importance of translation in shaping the politics of meaning – our collective textual practices determining our epistemological perspectives in literature and beyond? And finally: What are the consequences of implementing foreign modes of thinking and making politics in the receiving culture, both in the social sphere and in writing?
Zadomowieni i wyobcowani
Książka Justyny Budzik poświęcona jest twórczości siedmiu polskich poetów (kilku pokoleń) osiadłych w Kanadzie w różnych dekadach po zakończeniu II wojny światowej. Poezja Bogdana Czaykowskiego, Andrzeja Buszy, Floriana Śmieji, Wacława Iwaniuka, Edwarda Zymana, Marka Kusiby i Romana Sabo posłużyła Autorce do wnikliwej refleksji na temat sytuacji polskiego twórcy w Kraju Klonowego Liścia, „ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem dychotomii zadomowienia i wyobcowania" (jak czytamy we Wstępie). W pracy znajdziemy rozważania na temat wielorakich aspektów (m.in. psychologicznych, społecznych, filozoficznych bądź artystycznych), jakie wiążą się z sytuacją wygnania. Studium...
Dante and Polish Writers
Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present explores the phenomenon of Polish Danteism from a hermeneutic perspective. The chapters shed light on a series of “encounters” of eminent Polish writers with Dante and the Divine Comedy, resulting in original interpretations, creative reworkings, and a wealth of intertextual references testifying to a dialogue that has always been – and still is - alive, not excluding antagonism and bitter controversy. The contributors are all scholars of Polish literature with comparative expertise, teaching in Italian and Polish universities, which ensures a consistently focused point of view on the receptive context and the ways in which it is affected by the confrontation with Dante. The hermeneutic horizon ranges from the Inferno-like reading of the inhuman lands with which history abounds, to the metaphysical yearning underlying Dante’s “poetics of transhumanizing,” to recent perspectives related to the posthuman and storytelling.
Świetlicki
Marcina Świetlickiego nie trzeba przedstawiać. Oszczędzę więc Czytelnikom próżnego wprowadzenia i pozwolę sobie od razu przejść do rzeczy. Dotychczas twórczość Marcina Świetlickiego znalazła omówienie w trzech monografiach naukowych [...], dwu pracach zbiorowych [...], a także blisko czterystu samodzielnych tekstach krytycznych i recenzjach. Sporo, tym większe ryzyko dla autora kolejnej pracy, tym większe też ryzyko dla Czytelników, którzy zechcieli do niej sięgnąć. Książka, którą mimo rozmaitych wątpliwości oddaję w ręce Czytelników, ma stanowić uzupełnienie dla wszystkich wyżej wymienionych, proponując – ufam, że – świeże interpretacje wybranych tekstów Marcina Świetlickiego oraz „odświeżający” namysł nad twórczością autora wracających raz po raz w dyskusjach Zimnych krajów. (ze Wstępu)
