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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entirety of
Wislawa Szymborska's poetic oeuvre. The author employs in-depth
historical reflection on Szymborska's beginnings to reveal that -
without describing her post-war beginnings and reflecting on her
early entanglement in socialist realist newspeak - Szymborska's
mature anti-dogmatic attitude will remain unclear. The book shows
how Szymborska's rhetoric and stylistics - figures of reservation,
negation, contradiction, tautology, and repetition - are closely
connected with the construction of the poetic world and affect the
shape of her messages. After all, Wislawa Szymborska is a poet of
sophisticated wit, a surprising freedom of expression, and an
unusual game with various literary styles, even with colloquial
Polish.
Kazimierz Moczarski (1907-1975) was a journalist, soldier, and
political prisoner. His life exemplifies a Central European
biography under Nazism and Comunism. The addictive and moving
Civility in Uncivil Times reveals the story of a man who defended
law and democracy all his life. Moczarski fought for it in the
authoritarian Poland of the 1930s. During the Second World War, he
partook in the resistance movement. After the war, he spent eleven
years in a Stalinist prison, including nine months in one cell with
the Nazi Jurgen Stroop, who commanded the brutal pacification of
the Warsaw Ghetto. The communists imprisoned Moczarski's wife.
After release, he rebuilt the broken marriage, rejoined social
life, and wrote a work about meeting Stroop. Translated into many
languages, Conversations with the Executioner is a thorough study
of totalitarianism.
This is a book about impending catastrophe. The metaphorical insane
"run" ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The book
focuses on European culture of the late nineteenth century and the
Polish contribution to it. The word "dark" used to describe
modernity is understood as a metaphor of gradual and permanent
devaluation of the idea of progress, as a fading hope for the
future of Europe as bright, predictable, prosperous, and safe. The
"darkening" also receives a literal sense. At the end of the
nineteenth century, darkness found its way back to the public space
- in the theaters, panoramas, dioramas, and "love tunnels", which
awaited the visitors of American and European amusement parks.
Ancient Greek history holds a special place in the works of many
19th-c. writers. The same goes for Cyprian Norwid, one of the most
eminent poets in the history of Polish literature, a thinker, and
an artist. This book scrutinizes Norwid's fascination with Greek
history and culture, especially his peculiar synthesis of Greek
thought and Christianity. It focuses on the key themes of the
relationship of Platonism with early Christian writings and their
presence in Norwid's contemporary culture, the opposition of memory
and history in 19th-c. literature and social life, and the image of
the artist and its influence on social life in modern everyday. The
book analyzes Norwid's oeuvre in a broad comparison with
representatives of French, German, and British literature and the
humanities.
This book is the first monograph that provides a wholesome overview
of the history of Antisemitism in Poland. The author critically
analyzes the Polish manifestation of the gruesome phenomenon
against the backdrop of historical events in all Europe, as she
traces the formation of the ideology and its difference from
Judeophobia. A special notion requires the author's meticulousness
in research of the archives referring to the Catholic Church and
folk culture. Most importantly, she does not end with the
historical perspective but uses her studies to shed light on the
events permeating in the thirty years of the recent Polish history
as an independent country.
The Persona of Czeslaw Milosz considers the poetry of Milosz in the
innovative light of world literature and comparative literary
studies. The author employs critical debates about Milosz in
American and English literature to reshape the image of his
reception. The book masterfully elaborates Milosz's poetics of
perspectivism with a new method of analysis based on the category
of authorial persona-between reception, poetics, and
close-reading-separate from the literary persona. Each chapter
encapsulates introductory information about Polish literature and
moves beyond the horizon of Western expectations about Central
European writers. Milosz's most discussed poems reveal new
provocative power in the context of T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman,
William Blake, and Friedrich Nietzsche. To date, no work
comprehensively examines Milosz's self-proclaimed contradictory
nature and the nomadic quality of his works. As a result,
scholarship remains scattered in diverse areas of interest, moving
Milosz to the margins of world literature, instead of cherishing
the diversity of perspectives he championed, among other places, in
his Nobel Lecture. Without properly appreciating the poetics of
contradiction proposed by Milosz and a critical analysis of his
process of self-situation, we narrow his impact on literature only
to Polish poetry, effectively allowing for a petrification of his
innovative methods. The Persona of Czeslaw Milosz remedies this gap
by revealing that, in contrast to Polish and American literary
reception, Milosz was an eccentric eulogist of the concept of a
multi-perspectivist persona. Through close examinations of Milosz's
poetry, we learn that he develops a method of oscillating between
ideas in search of lasting symbols common to all, beginning
unfailingly with his current perspective. After all, Milosz
persistently placed himself outside of the consensus and maneuvered
the subject matter of his works to such an extent that his works
became his philosophy of literature and the way of life.
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