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Introduction: Polish Literature and Its Worlds -- Part 1: Old Polish Literature: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque -- In Search of Origins: Bogurodzica / Emiliano Ranocchi -- World Order in a Harmonious Hymn: Jan Kochanowski's "What Dost of Us Require, Lord, for Thy Plenteous Graces?" / Andrea Ceccherelli -- A Child's Death, the Poet's Immortality: Jan Kochanowski's Laments / Charles Zaremba -- The Poetry of "Passage": Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński's Sonnets / Luigi Marinelli -- Part 2: Sources of Modernity: The Enlightenment Legacy -- The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom: Reading Ignacy Krasicki with Kant / Bożena Shallcross -- The "Fairytale" Magic of Speech: Franciszek Karpiński's Lukierda's Plaint / Rolf Fieguth -- Is Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa a Polish Work? / François Rosset -- The Letters of Jewish Lovers in Dutch: Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's Levi and Sarah / Kris Van Heuckelom -- Part 3: The Nineteenth Century: Romanticism and Positivism -- The Culture of Memory: Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz / Brigita Speičytė -- Adam Mickiewicz: Two Poems and their Brazilian Readings / Henryk Siewierski -- "Being's Fated Shade": Cyprian Kamil Norwid's "Irony" / Michał Mrugalski -- Bolesław Prus's The Doll: Polish Historical Vistas from a Japanese Perspective / Tokimasa Sekiguchi -- Toward Mass Culture: The Global Renown of Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo / Vadis Monika Woźniak -- Part 4: Polish Modernism: From Young Poland to the Interwar Period -- Stanisław Brzozowski's Flames / Jens Herlth -- "Rebellion Against Boundaries": Bolesław Leśmian's The Meadow / Katia Vandenborre -- The Polish Avant-Garde in Japan: Bruno Jasieński's I Burn Paris / Ariko Kato -- "A Man on the Brink of Disaster": Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz's Insatiability / Michał Paweł Markowski -- History and Myth: Bruno Schulz's Spring / Stanley Bill -- Psychological Realism and Modernist Poetics: Zofia Nałkowska's Boundary / Ursula Phillips -- Part 5: Postwar Literature: Trauma, Exile, Identity -- Witness and Form: Tadeusz Borowski's This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Bożena Karwowska -- Gustaw Herling-Grudziński's A World Apart / Maria Delaperrière -- Making Sense of Trans-Atlantyk: The Reception of Witold Gombrowicz's Exile Novel in Norway / Knut Andreas Grimstad -- Archaism as a Tool of Change: Reflections on a Poem by Czesław Miłosz / Tomas Venclova -- Stanisław Jerzy Lec's Unkempt Thoughts / Leonard Neuger -- Stanisław Lem's Solaris: Interpretations in the Russian-Speaking World / Wiktor Jaźniewicz -- Translating Memory: The Reception of Miron Białoszewski's A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprisinging North America / Joanna Niżyńska -- Part 6: Beyond Ideology: Literature of the Last Four Decades -- The Drama of Otherness: Tadeusz Różewicz's White Marriage / Tamara Trojanowska -- Wisława Szymborska: "Writing a Résumé" / Giovanna Tomassucci -- Zbigniew Herbert and Antiquity: Poetry, Oppression, and "the Classic" / Arent van Nieukerken -- The Untranslatable Trope: Mariusz Wilk's "Russian" / Cycle Irina Adelgeym -- A Thicket of Hieroglyphs and Ideograms: Ryszard Kapuściński's Travels with Herodotus / Wu Lan -- "Try to Praise the Mutilated World": Adam Zagajewski and the Poetry of 9/11 / Clare Cavanagh -- Micro-suspense and the Desire to Keep Reading: Translating Olga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacob / Jennifer Croft -- Afterword: A World History of Polish Literature / Norman Davies (Oxford). "The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature offers an introduction to Polish Literature through thirty-two case studies. Each chapter draws on a text or body of work from Polish literature and looks at its global reception, as well as its position within "World Literature". The book presents a dual perspective of how Polish Literature is read and viewed globally, as well as how it shapes and influences "World Literature" as a whole. With a detailed introduction offering a narrative overview, the book is divided into six sections offering a chronological pathway through the material. The global range of contributors examine the various cultural exchanges at play, with each chapter looking at: - Defining key terms, brief overviews of historical and political events, literary eras, trends, movements, groups, and institutions for those new to the area - Translation - analysis and notes on translation including the hidden dimensions and potential - Textual focus on poetics - strategies of composition, style and genre - The range of historical, sociological, political and economic contexts at play From the middle ages, through to the present, this book offers a detailed history of Polish Literature, whilst also positioning its significance within "World Literature". The detailed introductions make it accessible to beginners in the area, but the detailed analysis and focused case studies will be of interest to researchers"--
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