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.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Adam Mickiewicz Institute; "Ex Pluribus Plures": Cultural Histories in the Twenty-First Century; Part I: Transitions; 1 Sarmatism; Sarmatism, or the Secrets of Polish Essentialism; Spectres of Sarmatism; 2 Romanticism; The Splintering of a Myth: Polish Romantic Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries; (Polish) Romanticism: From Canon to Agon; 3 Modernism; A Concise Companion to Polish Modernism; The Modernist Formation of Polish Literature; Part II: Strategies; 1 Canonical Strategies

Requiem for a Canon? The Peculiar Case of the Transatlantic Canon2 Emancipatory Strategies; Polish Modernist Literature: Emancipative Strategies in Prose; 3 Transgressive Strategies; Delectatio furiosa, or, the Modes of Cultural Transgression; 4 Compensatory Strategies; Delectatio morosa, or, the Modes of Affective Compensation in Polish Memory Culture; Part III: Transmissions; 1 Immigrant/Émigré, Migrant, and Transnationalliterature and Culture; Emigration and Its Cultural Legacy in Twentieth-Century Polish Intellectual History

The Polish-Language Cabaret Song: Its Multi-Ethnic Pedigree and Transnational Adventures, 1919-19682 Literature in Languages other than Polish; Polish Literatures and Its Languages; 3 Translation; Translation as Comparison; Translated from the Polish: The Fates, Feats, and Foibles of Polish Literature in English; Part IV: Genres and Their Discontents; 1 Interwar Prose; Interwar Prose; Modern Midrash: A Poetics of Exegesis, Empathy, and Encounter (Bruno Schulz); Iconoclasm and Nation Building (Witold Gombrowicz); Politics and Ethics of Human Relations (Zofia Nałkowska)

Troubled Modernism (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz)2 War, Postwar, and Post-1989 Prose; Shifting Sands: History of Polish Prose, 1945-2015; Post-Traumatic Outsider (Leopold Buczkowski); Futurological Philosophy (Stanisław Lem); Mythical Subversions (Olga Tokarczuk); Alternative Cartographies (Andrzej Stasiuk); 3 Interwar, War, Postwar, and Post-1989 Poetry; Polish Twentieth-Century Poetry; Matter, Spirit, and Linguistic Metamorphoses (Bolesław Leśmian); Metaphor, Vision, and Poetic Construction (Julian Przyboś); Depth of Doubt (Tadeusz Różewicz)

Against Dualities with Life-Writing (Miron Białoszewski)Euphoria of the Ordinary (Anna Świrszczyńska); 4 Interwar Drama; Drama of the Interwar Period (1918-1939); Apocalyptic Fears; Aesthetic Daring (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz); Revolution as the Psychic Condition of the Twentieth Century (Stanisława Przybyszewska); The Power of Spectacle (Leon Schiller); The Theatre of Truth (Juliusz Osterwa); 5 Postwar and Post-1989 Drama; Drama as a Manifold Portrait: Polish Drama after the Second World War; Border States and Boundary Crossings (Tadeusz Różewicz)

Poland -- Local Universe (Sławomir Mrożek)

<P><EM>Being Poland </EM>offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments to take place in Poland over the last one hundred years. </P>

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