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Selected Poems
Poets' Voices is an international series of books with audio CD's which present collections of poems by significant poets whose work is not available in existing publications. Their poems appear in the original language, together with an English translation on the facing page. With each book, whenever possible, there is a CD recording of the poet reading poems in the collection in the original language and when feasible, in the English translations. Poets' Voices will also feature monographs on key poets about whose lives, works, and influence little is currently available.Czerniawski writes distinctive, challenging, and engaging poems. Since the late seventies he has been a significant presence in Polish poetry. Influenced by his remarkable international and multicultural experiences. Czerniawski debates, enacts or meditates obliquely on puzzles and questions of perception, memory, and representation. A CD featuring readings of a selection of the poems in Polish and in English accompanies this book.
Tadeusz Różewicz and Modern Identity in Poland since the Second World War
As Andrzej Mencwel observed, “as a result of fundamental historical changes” the need arises for “restructuring of the whole present memory and tradition system” (Rodzinna Europa po raz pierwszy). Changes of such significance took place in Poland during the Second World War and several following decades. Collective experience of that time was made up of – apart from political antagonisms – social and cultural phenomena such as change of elites, reinterpretation of their grand narratives (or symbolic world), the ultimate inclusion of the masses into the national project based on the post-gentry tradition and national history, the intensive development of urban lifestyle and the ex...
Comparative Literature
This book serves several purposes, all very much needed in today's embattled situation of the humanities and the study of literature. First, in Chapter One, the author proposes that the discipline of Comparative Literature is a most advantageous approach for the study of literature and culture as it is a priori a discipline of cross-disciplinarity and of international dimensions. After a "Manifesto" for a New Comparative Literature, he proceeds to offer several related theoretical frameworks as a composite method for the study of literature and culture he designates and explicates as the "systemic and empirical approach." Following the introduction of the proposed New Comparative Literature,...
Polonia Reformata
In his fascinating new book, Polonia Reformata. Essays on the Polish Reformation(s), Professor Piotr Wilczek of the University of Warsaw discusses selected aspects of Polish early modern religious history and literature, introducing them from a new perspective and emphasizing the great role of Poland's radical Reformation in European intellectual life. At the same time, the author presents the varieties of religious experience and expression to be found in the Polish-Lituanian Commonwealth, and questions certain myths about Poland's Reformation and Counter-Reformation history and culture, which have featured in European historiography at least since the publication in 1685 of Stanislas Lubie...
(Un)masking Bruno Schulz
Whatever critical scalpel one selects for dissecting the literary works of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), there will always be a certain degree of textual resistance which cannot be broken. Or in other words, taking off one of Schulz's many masks, one will probably never avoid the impression that a new mask has emerged. This book contributes to the three most typical critical strategies of reading Schulz's works (combinations, fragmentations, reintegrations) - being fully aware, of course, of the relativity of each particular approach. In addition, the book sets out to explore all of Schulz's creative output (i.e. his stories as well as his graphic, epistolary and even literary critical works), a...
Twentieth-century Eastern European Writers
Essays on some of the most prominent Eastern European writers from the twentieth-century from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Discusses the contributions of these authors who played a significant role in the growth, development, and preservation of their respective literatures. This rich and diverse literary history of Eastern Europe mirrors the depth and complexity of its social and political history.
The Polish Review
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Die literarischen Reportagen Hanna Kralls
Die polnische Schriftstellerin und Journalistin Hanna Krall hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, einige der letzten Zeitzeugen des fast ganzlich zerstorten Ostjudentums sowie Uberlebende der Shoah zu interviewen. Sie sammelt gewissermassen Erinnerungen und formt diese zu literarischen Reportagen. Da mit zunehmender zeitlicher Distanz die Generation der primaren Augenzeugen erlischt, bedeutet die Fixierung der Erinnerung einen wesentlichen Baustein fur das kollektive Holocaustgedachtnis. In der Arbeit geht es nicht zuletzt darum, aufzuzeigen, welche Wirkung von dem Genre der literarischen Reportage in Bezug auf die Konstruktion von Gedachtnissen in der Literatur ausgehen kann. So gelingt es der Autorin immer wieder, die recherchierten Fakten mit Hilfe erzahltechnischer, stilistischer und rhetorischer Mittel zu einem asthetischen Ganzen zusammenzufugen, ohne dabei das Leid der Opfer zu stilisieren.
