The Ghost of Shakespeare : : Collected Essays / / Anna Frajlich; ed. by Ronald Meyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Frajlich, Anna,
• HerausgeberIn: Meyer, Ronald,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Polish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)

This volume collects the critical prose of award-winning writer Anna Frajlich. The Ghost of Shakespeare takes its name from Frajlich’s essay on Nobel Prize laureate Wisława Szymborska, but informs her approach as a comparativist more generally as she considers the work of major Polish writers of the twentieth century, including Zbigniew Herbert, Czesław Miłosz, and Bruno Schulz. Frajlich’s study of the Roman theme in Russian Symbolism owes its origins to her stay in the Eternal City, the second stop on her exile from Poland in 1969. The book concludes with essays in autobiography that describe her parents’ dramatic flight from Poland at the outbreak of the war, her own exile from Poland in 1969, settling in New York City, and building her career as a scholar and leading poet of her generation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One —On Poetry -- 1. Czesław Miłosz: The Ambivalent Landscape of Return -- 2. He Also Knew How to Be Gracious (Czesław Miłosz) -- 3. From Common Servant to Lot’s Wife (Wisława Szymborska) -- 4. Intellect Imbued with Clarity, Grace, and Humor Notes on Wisława Szymborska -- 5. The Ghost of Shakespeare in the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska -- 6. The Last Time We Saw Her . . . (Wisława Szymborska) -- 7. Apollo and Marsyas: A Tribute to Zbigniew Herbert -- 8. Poet of the Seventh Climate: Recurrent Images in the Poetry of Bronisław Przyłuski -- 9. A Canon of His Own (Vasyl Makhno) -- 10. Must Poetry Be Absolutely Modern? -- Part Two—On Polish Prose -- 11. Two Unknown Soldiers (Józef Wittlin) -- 12. Bruno Schulz: Mythmaker and Legend -- 13. The Lifelong Passion of Jerzy Ficowski -- 14. Jealousy, Sex, and Character: Michał Choromański and Otto Weininger -- 15. Narrative Strategies: The Case of Andrzej Bobkowski -- 16. Henryk Grynberg: His Quest for Artistic and Non-Artistic Truth -- 17. Finding the Way between Globalization and Decentralization: Polish Literature after 1989 -- Part Three—On Russian Symbolism -- 18. Three Great Romans in the Poetry of Valery Bryusov -- 19. The Contradictions of the Northern Pilgrim: Dmitry Merezhkovsky -- 20. The Quest for Pax Romana as a Quest for Peace of Mind: Vasily Komarovsky -- 21. The Scepter of the Far East and the Crown of the Third Rome: The Russo-Japanese War in the Mirror of Russian Poetry -- Part Four—On Writing and Exile -- 22. My Native Realm -- 23. My “Unprocessed” Holocaust -- 24. March Began in June: My “Processed” Trauma -- 25. The Price of Integrity -- 26. Cultural Diversity in the Workplace -- 27. Writing Polish in America -- 28. Identity and Difference: The Power of Language -- Afterword. Departures, Returns and Memory in the Collected Essays of Anna Frajlich -- Bibliography -- Selected Honors and Publications -- Index