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GebondenEngels9783631816981
16-12-2020
The book reconstructs a poetic vision of the world after the Fall and describes Czeslaw Milosz’s model of modernism, shaped by his intellectual and existential division between pessimism and ecstasy, yearning for contact with the meaning of reality, and faith in the power of poetic imagination. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631816998
30-10-2020
The book is a monograph on Andrzej Bobkowski’s writings, a Polish author, diarist, epistolograph, and essayist, most famous for his diary Wartime Notebooks: France 1940–1944. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631846773
30-11-2021
The book provides a comprehensive summary of the existing approaches to the prose poem and offers an original conception of it, remaining close to the poetic texts by following the intricate line of development of the prose poem, in Modern Polish and European literary history and literary genre theory. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631846490
28-10-2021
The monograph presents the Polish history of haiku and the forms associated with the genre – in literature and visual arts. Polish works are confronted with Japanese poetry (along with its aesthetic and philosophical contexts) and with haiku-inspired works of different Western authors. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631657751
5-11-2015
This book refers the voice of Polish anthropology in the Western debate on the Clifford Geertz’s interpretive anthropology. This book will show how principle categories such as text, interpretation, thick description have been absorbed by anthropological discourse, which influence theories (epistemology) and research methods in anthropology. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631873342
29-2-2024
Praxis is a methodological exercise in cultural studies described as "engaging", which requires the inclusion of individuals and communities in the process of using a theory of culture as a tool of social criticism. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631911792
23-8-2024
This work aims to provide an interpretation of certain aspects of Polish Modernist literature that have not been properly recognized until now. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631862025
10-2-2022
In this volume, scholars from diverse research fields (literature, history, art history, and folklore studies) scan the nineteenth-century Latvian literature from various perspectives, taking into account links between literature, oral culture and visual art as well as the interactions between social transformations and aesthetic developments. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631674277
16-5-2019
The book presents a universal theory of autobiography which has a "triangular" model. Three stances: witness, confession and challenge to the reader, are always present, though usually one is dominant. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631674284
31-8-2018
Referring to the modern theory of text, the book treats the exchange taking place in literary texts between the body and the sign. The basic concept of this exchange is the rhythm. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631674307
16-4-2018
This book presents a collection of essays discussing the history of the five myths of Dionysus, Narcissus, Prometheus, Marcolf, and Labyrinth in twentieth-century literature. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631675250
8-1-2019
This book presents the rhetorical means of creating discourses about a writer. It shows the place of literature in culture and the workings of cultural memory. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631857991
22-9-2022
The publication deals with the changes that occurred in photography after the invention of digital techniques of image recording, and most of all, with their image in poetry after1989, based on Polish literature. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631881644
17-7-2023
Comprehensive presentation of Jacques Rancière’s thought on relations between politics and literature in the context of different philosophical currents (Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-François Lyotard) and world literature masterpieces (Gustav Flaubert, Max Jacob, Bertold Brecht, Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth). Meer
GebondenEngels9783631626696
23-2-2015
This is a reader’s book about Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry. She holds the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1996. The Contents of the book are the Nobel Lecture held in Stockholm at the official ceremony by the poet in December 1996, a choice of Polish essays about Szmyborska’s poetry and translations of her works into German, English, Spanish and French. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631623572
29-4-2014
The author asks questions like «Can a Jew be both a Jew and a Pole?», «Are we right to talk of ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’ death in the Holocaust? Meer
GebondenEngels9783631676042
26-8-2019
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entirety of Wislawa Szymborska’s poetic oeuvre. The author reveals that – without reflecting on her early entanglement in socialist realism – Szymborska’s mature anti-dogmatic attitude will remain unclear. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631626719
15-12-2014
The most comprehensive book in English on the Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz combines literary and historical approaches to his poems, essays, literary criticism and translations and to his poetic self-image. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631627273
13-8-2015
The questions the writer Samuel Beckett posed in his dramas, his prose and his poetry are the central questions asked by the most outstanding thinkers of modernity. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631788073
20-11-2019
The book explores the creative potential of misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication. The concept is studied from the perspective of translation studies, literary and cultural history, sociology. Meer