Being Poland
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Being Poland

A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918

  1. 856 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Being Poland

A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918

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Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments to take place in Poland over the last one hundred years.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Adam Mickiewicz Institute
  4. “Ex Pluribus Plures”: Cultural Histories in the Twenty-First Century
  5. Part I: Transitions “Ex Pluribus Plures”: Cultural Histories in the Twenty-First Century
  6. 1. SARMATISM
  7. Sarmatism, or the Secrets of Polish Essentialism
  8. Spectres of Sarmatism
  9. 2. ROMANTICISM
  10. The Splintering of a Myth: Polish Romantic Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
  11. (Polish) Romanticism: From Canon to Agon
  12. 3. MODERNISM
  13. A Concise Companion to Polish Modernism
  14. The Modernist Formation of Polish Literature
  15. Part II: Strategies
  16. 1. CANONICAL STRATEGIES
  17. Requiem for a Canon? The Peculiar Case of the Transatlantic Canon
  18. 2. EMANCIPATORY STRATEGIES
  19. Polish Modernist Literature: Emancipative Strategies in Prose
  20. 3. TRANSGRESSIVE STRATEGIES
  21. Delectatio furiosa, or, the Modes of Cultural Transgression
  22. 4. COMPENSATORY STRATEGIES
  23. Delectatio morosa, or, the Modes of Affective Compensation in Polish Memory Culture
  24. Part III: Transmissions
  25. 1. IMMIGRANT/ÉMIGRÉ, MIGRANT, AND TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
  26. Emigration and Its Cultural Legacy in Twentieth-Century Polish Intellectual History
  27. The Polish-Language Cabaret Song: Its Multi-Ethnic Pedigree and Transnational Adventures, 1919–1968
  28. 2. LITERATURE IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN POLISH
  29. Polish Literatures and Its Languages
  30. 3. TRANSLATION
  31. Translation as Comparison
  32. Translated from the Polish: The Fates, Feats, and Foibles of Polish Literature in English
  33. Part IV: Genres and Their Discontents
  34. 1. INTERWAR PROSE
  35. Interwar Prose
  36. Modern Midrash: A Poetics of Exegesis, Empathy, and Encounter (Bruno Schulz)
  37. Iconoclasm and Nation Building (Witold Gombrowicz)
  38. Politics and Ethics of Human Relations (Zofia Nalkowska)
  39. Troubled Modernism (Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz)
  40. 2. WAR, POSTWAR, AND POST-1989 PROSE
  41. Shifting Sands: History of Polish Prose, 1945–2015
  42. Post-Traumatic Outsider (Leopold Buczkowski)
  43. Futurological Philosophy (Stanislaw Lem)
  44. Mythical Subversions (Olga Tokarczuk)
  45. Alternative Cartographies (Andrzej Stasiuk)
  46. 3. INTERWAR, WAR, POSTWAR, AND POST-1989 POETRY
  47. Polish Twentieth-Century Poetry
  48. Matter, Spirit, and Linguistic Metamorphoses (Bolesław Leśmian)
  49. Metaphor, Vision, and Poetic Construction (Julian Przyboś)
  50. Depth of Doubt (Tadeusz Różewicz)
  51. Against Dualities with Life-Writing (Miron Bialoszewski)
  52. Euphoria of the Ordinary (Anna Świrszczyńska)
  53. 4. INTERWAR DRAMA
  54. Drama of the Interwar Period (1918–1939)
  55. Apocalyptic Fears; Aesthetic Daring (Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz)
  56. Revolution as the Psychic Condition of the Twentieth Century (Stanislawa Przybyszewska)
  57. The Power of Spectacle (Leon Schiller)
  58. The Theatre of Truth (Juliusz Osterwa)
  59. 5. POSTWAR AND POST-1989 DRAMA
  60. Drama as a Manifold Portrait: Polish Drama after the Second World War
  61. Border States and Boundary Crossings (Tadeusz Różewicz)
  62. Poland – Local Universe (Sławomir Mrożek)
  63. Revolt of Memory (Tadeusz Kantor)
  64. The Dramaturgy of Jerzy Grotowski
  65. 6. THE ESSAY
  66. The Polish Essay: Between Realism and Nominalism
  67. Trial and Error: Between Criticism and Essayism (Karol Irzykowski)
  68. Metaphysics of Experience (Czeslaw Milosz)
  69. History of Ideas (Leszek Kolakowski)
  70. Hermeneutics of the Marginal (Jolanta Brach-Czaina)
  71. 7. DIARIES
  72. Poland’s Autobiographical Twentieth Century
  73. 8. REPORTAGE
  74. Transformations of Polish Reportage
  75. The Four Elements of Reportage (Melchior Wańkowicz)
  76. New Polish Idiom (Mariusz Szczygiel)
  77. 9. LITERARY THEORY
  78. From Soul to Science and Back Again: A Short Stroll through Polish Twentieth-Century Literary Theory
  79. 10. FILM
  80. Negotiating the Aesthetic: The Politics of Polish Postwar Cinema
  81. History and Grand Narratives (Andrzej Wajda)
  82. Neither East, nor West (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  83. Poetics of Chance (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  84. Not Quite Alla Polacca (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
  85. Poetry of the Discarded (Dorota Kędzierzawska)
  86. 11. POPULAR CULTURE
  87. Popular Culture in Poland
  88. Between Personal and Collective Memory: History and Politics in Polish Comics
  89. 12. MASS MEDIA
  90. Media and Culture
  91. Subject Index
  92. Name Index