The Ghost of Shakespeare : : Collected Essays / / Anna Frajlich; ed. by Ronald Meyer.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Polish Studies
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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