Being Poland : : A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 / / ed. by Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Nizynska, Przemyslaw Czaplinski.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bendyk, Edwin,; Bilczewski, Tomasz,; Bill, Stanley,; Bolecki, Włodzimierz,; Borkowska, Grażyna,; Braun, Kazimierz,; Buryła, Sławomir,; Carpenter, Bogdana,; Czapliński, Przemysław,; Falkowska, Janina,; Filipowicz, Halina,; Foeller-Pituch, Elżbieta,; Gasyna, George,; Gerould, Daniel,; Gluhovic, Milija,; Grabowski, Artur,; Guderian-Czaplińska, Ewa,; Holmgren, Beth,; Iłłakowicz, Krystyna,; Jarzębski, Jerzy,; Johnston, Bill,; Kaczorowski, Aleksander,; Karwowska, Bożena,; Kasztenna, Katarzyna,; Kopciński, Jacek,; Krajewski, Marek,; Kuharski, Allen J.,; Lanoux, Andrea,; Markowski, Michał Paweł,; Marszałek, Magdalena,; Mazierska, Ewa,; Michalski, Maciej,; Moczkodan, Rafał,; Niżyńska, Joanna,; Nowacka, Beata,; Nycz, Ryszard,; Ostrowska, Elżbieta,; Paloff, Benjamin,; Phillips, Ursula,; Płaczkiewicz, Artur,; Ritz, German,; Rodak, Paweł,; Shallcross, Bożena,; Skrendo, Andrzej,; Skwara, Marta,; Skórczewski, Dariusz,; Sobolewski, Tadeusz,; Sowa, Jan,; Stańczyk, Ewa,; Szybowicz, Eliza,; Taras, Katarzyna,; Thompson, Ewa,; Trojanowska, Tamara,; Underhill, Karen,; Van Heuckelom, Kris,; Zaleski, Marek,; Ziątek, Zygmunt,; Śliwiński, Piotr,
• HerausgeberIn: Czaplinski, Przemyslaw,; Nizynska, Joanna,; Trojanowska, Tamara,
• TeilnehmendeR: Polakowska, Agnieszka.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (856 p.)

Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland's cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Adam Mickiewicz Institute
• "Ex Pluribus Plures": Cultural Histories in the Twenty-First Century
• Part I: Transitions "Ex Pluribus Plures": Cultural Histories in the Twenty-First Century
• 1. SARMATISM
• Sarmatism, or the Secrets of Polish Essentialism
• Spectres of Sarmatism
• 2. ROMANTICISM
• The Splintering of a Myth: Polish Romantic Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
• (Polish) Romanticism: From Canon to Agon
• 3. MODERNISM
• A Concise Companion to Polish Modernism
• The Modernist Formation of Polish Literature
• Part II: Strategies
• 1. CANONICAL STRATEGIES
• Requiem for a Canon? The Peculiar Case of the Transatlantic Canon
• 2. EMANCIPATORY STRATEGIES
• Polish Modernist Literature: Emancipative Strategies in Prose
• 3. TRANSGRESSIVE STRATEGIES
• Delectatio furiosa, or, the Modes of Cultural Transgression
• 4. COMPENSATORY STRATEGIES
• Delectatio morosa, or, the Modes of Affective Compensation in Polish Memory Culture
• Part III: Transmissions
• 1. IMMIGRANT/ÉMIGRÉ, MIGRANT, AND TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
• Emigration and Its Cultural Legacy in Twentieth-Century Polish Intellectual History
• The Polish-Language Cabaret Song: Its Multi-Ethnic Pedigree and Transnational Adventures, 1919-1968
• 2. LITERATURE IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN POLISH
• Polish Literatures and Its Languages
• 3. TRANSLATION
• Translation as Comparison
• Translated from the Polish: The Fates, Feats, and Foibles of Polish Literature in English
• Part IV: Genres and Their Discontents
• 1. INTERWAR PROSE
• Interwar Prose
• Modern Midrash: A Poetics of Exegesis, Empathy, and Encounter (Bruno Schulz)
• Iconoclasm and Nation Building (Witold Gombrowicz)
• Politics and Ethics of Human Relations (Zofia Nałkowska)
• Troubled Modernism (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz)
• 2. WAR, POSTWAR, AND POST-1989 PROSE
• Shifting Sands: History of Polish Prose, 1945-2015
• Post-Traumatic Outsider (Leopold Buczkowski)
• Futurological Philosophy (Stanisław Lem)
• Mythical Subversions (Olga Tokarczuk)
• Alternative Cartographies (Andrzej Stasiuk)
• 3. INTERWAR, WAR, POSTWAR, AND POST-1989 POETRY
• Polish Twentieth-Century Poetry
• Matter, Spirit, and Linguistic Metamorphoses (Bolesław Leśmian)
• Metaphor, Vision, and Poetic Construction (Julian Przyboś)
• Depth of Doubt (Tadeusz Różewicz)
• Against Dualities with Life-Writing (Miron Białoszewski)
• Euphoria of the Ordinary (Anna Świrszczyńska)
• 4. INTERWAR DRAMA
• Drama of the Interwar Period (1918-1939)
• Apocalyptic Fears; Aesthetic Daring (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz)
• Revolution as the Psychic Condition of the Twentieth Century (Stanisława Przybyszewska)
• The Power of Spectacle (Leon Schiller)
• The Theatre of Truth (Juliusz Osterwa)
• 5. POSTWAR AND POST-1989 DRAMA
• Drama as a Manifold Portrait: Polish Drama after the Second World War
• Border States and Boundary Crossings (Tadeusz Różewicz)
• Poland - Local Universe (Sławomir Mrożek)
• Revolt of Memory (Tadeusz Kantor)
• The Dramaturgy of Jerzy Grotowski
• 6. THE ESSAY
• The Polish Essay: Between Realism and Nominalism
• Trial and Error: Between Criticism and Essayism (Karol Irzykowski)
• Metaphysics of Experience (Czesław Miłosz)
• History of Ideas (Leszek Kołakowski)
• Hermeneutics of the Marginal (Jolanta Brach-Czaina)
• 7. DIARIES
• Poland's Autobiographical Twentieth Century
• 8. REPORTAGE
• Transformations of Polish Reportage
• The Four Elements of Reportage (Melchior Wańkowicz)
• New Polish Idiom (Mariusz Szczygieł)
• 9. LITERARY THEORY
• From Soul to Science and Back Again: A Short Stroll through Polish Twentieth-Century Literary Theory
• 10. FILM
• Negotiating the Aesthetic: The Politics of Polish Postwar Cinema
• History and Grand Narratives (Andrzej Wajda)
• Neither East, nor West (Jerzy Skolimowski)
• Poetics of Chance (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
• Not Quite Alla Polacca (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
• Poetry of the Discarded (Dorota Kędzierzawska)
• 11. POPULAR CULTURE
• Popular Culture in Poland
• Between Personal and Collective Memory: History and Politics in Polish Comics
• 12. MASS MEDIA
• Media and Culture
• Subject Index
• Name Index