Alienated Women : : A Study on Polish Women's Writing, 1845 -1918 / / Grażyna Borkowska.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Borkowska, Grażyna,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)

Women’s studies are still in their infancy in Poland and this pioneering book is one of the most comprehensive and well-researched studies on nineteenth-century Polish women prose writers. Selecting writers that reflect the most turbulent time in Polish women’s literature, such as Klementyna Hoffmanowa, Narcyza Żmichovska, Eliza Orzeszkowa and Zofia Nałkowska. Borkowska’s approach of major feminist theories and post-feminist thought results in astonishing findings that throw new light on Polish women writers and their contribution to European thought. The author’s intelligent and effective use of feminist criticism and clarity of thought make Alienated Women a landmark study, suitable for (all students) and scholars of Polish literature, women’s studies and feminist theory.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION FEMINIST CRITICISM IN RELATION TO ART AND THE THEORY OF CULTURE. A SHORT REVIEW -- PART 1 THE QUESTION OF THE "ENTHUSIASTS" -- PART 2 ZMICHOWSKA VERSUS HOFFMANOWA: THE STRATEGY OF THE BEE -- PART 3 GRAPPLING WITH FORM -- PART 4 THE SAMARITAN WOMAN AT THE WELL -- PART 5 ORZESZKOWA AND THE STRATEGY OF SELF-ADJUSTMENT -- PART 6 ORZESZKOWA: SELF-CORRECTION AND THE PROBLEM OF LIMITS -- PART 7 FOUR ROADS: REGRESSION, NARCISSICISM, STRUGGLE, ART -- PART 8 A COMPARATIVE READING OF THE DIARIES OF ZOFIA NALKOWSKA AND MARIA DAJBROWSKA -- CONCLUSION -- INDEX