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Polish Literature as World Literature (Hardcover)
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Polish Literature as World Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Literatures as World Literature
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This carefully curated collection consists of 16 chapters by
leading Polish and world literature scholars from the United
States, Canada, Italy, and, of course, Poland. An historical
approach gives readers a panoramic view of Polish authors and their
explicit or implicit contributions to world literature. Indeed, the
volume shows how Polish authors, from Jan Kochanowski in the 16th
century to the 2018 Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, have engaged
with their foreign counterparts and other traditions, active
participants in the global literary network and the conversations
of their day. The volume features views of Polish literature and
culture within theories of world literature and literary systems,
with a particular attention paid to the resurgence of the idea of
the physical book as a cultural artifact. This perspective is
especially important since so much of today's global literary
output stems from Anglophone perceptions of what constitutes
literary quality and tastes. The collection also sheds light on
specific issues pertaining to Poland, such as the idea of
Polishness, and global phenomena, including social and economic
advancement as well as ecological degradation. Some of the authors
discussed, like the Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz or the 1980 Nobel
laureate Czeslaw Milosz, were renowned far beyond the borders of
their country, while others, like the contemporary travel writer
and novelist Andrzej Stasiuk, embrace regionalism, seeing as they
do in their immediate surroundings a synecdoche of the world at
large. Nevertheless, the picture of Polish literature and Polish
authors that emerges from these articles is that of a diverse,
cosmopolitan cohort engaged in a mutually rewarding relationship
with what the late French critic Pascale Casanova has called "the
world republic of letters."
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