Being Poland : a new history of Polish literature and culture since 1918 / edited by Tamara Trojanow...
Being Poland : a new history of Polish literature and culture since 1918 / edited by Tamara Trojanow...
Being Poland : a new history of Polish literature and culture since 1918 / edited by Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska, and Przemysław Czapliński ; with the assistance of Agnieszka Polakowska.
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
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G 2019/5995
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English
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xxiv, 828 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Part I. Transitions. Sarmatism. Sarmatism, or the Secrets of Polish essentialism / Ewa Thompson, Rice University,, Houston ; Spectres of Sarmatism / Jan Sowa, Independent Scholar, Poland -- Romanticism. The splintering of a myth: Polish romantic ideology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries /...
Part II. Strategies. Canonical strategies. Requiem for a Canon? The peculiar case of the Transatlantic Canon / Beżena Shallcross, University of Chicago ; Emancipatory strategies. Polish Modernist literature: emancipative strategies in prose / Grażyna Borkowska, Institute of Literary Research of th...
Part III. Transmissions. Immigrant/émigré, migrant, and transnational literature and culture. Emigration and its cultural legacy in twentieth-century Poland intellectual history / Rafal Moczkodan, Nicolas Copernicus University, Toruń ; The Polish-language cabaret song: its multi-ethnic pedigree a...
Part IV. Genres and their discontents. Interwar prose / Jerzy Jarzębski, Jagiellonian University, Kraków ; Modern Midrash: a poetics of exegesis, empathy, and encounter (Bruno Schulz) / Karen Underhill, University of Illinois at Chicago ; ; Iconoclasm and nation building (Witold Gombrowicz) / Geor...
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Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Place of Publication
Ontario
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
"Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland's cultural restoration, A Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland's modern a...
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Being Poland : a new history of Polish literature and culture since 1918 / edited by Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska, and Przemysław Czapliński ; with the assistance of Agnieszka Polakowska.
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Polish literature and culture since 1918
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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G 2019/5995
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74VKawMbaoOl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKawMbaoOl
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ISBN
9781487524593 (softcover)
9781442650183 (hardcover)
1442650184 (hardcover)
1487524595
DDC
891.8509007
MMS ID
991024282008102626
