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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, Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland’s modern and contemporary cultural practices, and challenges the narrative typically prescribed to Polish literature and film. Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Adam Mickiewicz Institute -- “Ex Pluribus Plures”: Cultural Histories in the Twenty-First Century / Trojanowska, Tamara / Niżyńska, Joanna / Czapliński, Przemysław -- Part I: Transitions “Ex Pluribus Plures”: Cultural Histories in the Twenty-First Century -- 1. SARMATISM -- Sarmatism, or the Secrets of Polish Essentialism / Thompson, Ewa -- Spectres of Sarmatism / Sowa, Jan -- 2. ROMANTICISM -- The Splintering of a Myth: Polish Romantic Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries / Bill, Stanley -- (Polish) Romanticism: From Canon to Agon / Skórczewski, Dariusz -- 3. MODERNISM -- A Concise Companion to Polish Modernism / Bolecki, Włodzimierz -- The Modernist Formation of Polish Literature / Nycz, Ryszard -- Part II: Strategies -- 1. CANONICAL STRATEGIES -- Requiem for a Canon? The Peculiar Case of the Transatlantic Canon / Shallcross, Bożena -- 2. EMANCIPATORY STRATEGIES -- Polish Modernist Literature: Emancipative Strategies in Prose / Borkowska, Grażyna -- 3. TRANSGRESSIVE STRATEGIES -- Delectatio furiosa, or, the Modes of Cultural Transgression / Trojanowska, Tamara -- 4. COMPENSATORY STRATEGIES -- Delectatio morosa, or, the Modes of Affective Compensation in Polish Memory Culture / Niżyńska, Joanna -- Part III: Transmissions -- 1. IMMIGRANT/ÉMIGRÉ, MIGRANT, AND TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE -- Emigration and Its Cultural Legacy in Twentieth-Century Polish Intellectual History / Moczkodan, Rafał -- The Polish-Language Cabaret Song: Its Multi-Ethnic Pedigree and Transnational Adventures, 1919–1968 / Holmgren, Beth -- 2. LITERATURE IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN POLISH -- Polish Literatures and Its Languages / Skwara, Marta -- 3. TRANSLATION -- Translation as Comparison / Bilczewski, Tomasz -- Translated from the Polish: The Fates, Feats, and Foibles of Polish Literature in English / Johnston, Bill -- Part IV: Genres and Their Discontents -- 1. INTERWAR PROSE -- Interwar Prose / Jarzębski, Jerzy -- Modern Midrash: A Poetics of Exegesis, Empathy, and Encounter (Bruno Schulz) / Underhill, Karen -- Iconoclasm and Nation Building (Witold Gombrowicz) / Gasyna, George -- Politics and Ethics of Human Relations (Zofia Nałkowska) / Phillips, Ursula -- Troubled Modernism (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz) / Ritz, German -- 2. WAR, POSTWAR, AND POST-1989 PROSE -- Shifting Sands: History of Polish Prose, 1945–2015 / Czapliński, Przemysław -- Post-Traumatic Outsider (Leopold Buczkowski) / Buryła, Sławomir -- Futurological Philosophy (Stanisław Lem) / Foeller-Pituch, Elżbieta -- Mythical Subversions (Olga Tokarczuk) / Karwowska, Bożena -- Alternative Cartographies (Andrzej Stasiuk) / Marszałek, Magdalena -- 3. INTERWAR, WAR, POSTWAR, AND POST-1989 POETRY -- Polish Twentieth-Century Poetry / Śliwiński, Piotr -- Matter, Spirit, and Linguistic Metamorphoses (Bolesław Leśmian) / Paloff, Benjamin -- Metaphor, Vision, and Poetic Construction (Julian Przyboś) / Carpenter, Bogdana -- Depth of Doubt (Tadeusz Różewicz) / Skrendo, Andrzej -- Against Dualities with Life-Writing (Miron Białoszewski) / Płaczkiewicz, Artur -- Euphoria of the Ordinary (Anna Świrszczyńska) / Lanoux, Andrea -- 4. INTERWAR DRAMA -- Drama of the Interwar Period (1918–1939) / Guderian-Czaplińska, Ewa -- Apocalyptic Fears; Aesthetic Daring (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz) / Gerould, Daniel -- Revolution as the Psychic Condition of the Twentieth Century (Stanisława Przybyszewska) / Gerould, Daniel -- The Power of Spectacle (Leon Schiller) / Guderian-Czaplińska, Ewa -- The Theatre of Truth (Juliusz Osterwa) / Braun, Kazimierz -- 5. POSTWAR AND POST-1989 DRAMA -- Drama as a Manifold Portrait: Polish Drama after the Second World War / Kopciński, Jacek -- Border States and Boundary Crossings (Tadeusz Różewicz) / Filipowicz, Halina -- Poland – Local Universe (Sławomir Mrożek) / Grabowski, Artur -- Revolt of Memory (Tadeusz Kantor) / Gluhovic, Milija -- The Dramaturgy of Jerzy Grotowski / Kuharski, Allen J. -- 6. THE ESSAY -- The Polish Essay: Between Realism and Nominalism / Markowski, Michał Paweł -- Trial and Error: Between Criticism and Essayism (Karol Irzykowski) / Van Heuckelom, Kris -- Metaphysics of Experience (Czesław Miłosz) / Zaleski, Marek -- History of Ideas (Leszek Kołakowski) / Michalski, Maciej -- Hermeneutics of the Marginal (Jolanta Brach-Czaina) / Szybowicz, Eliza -- 7. DIARIES -- Poland’s Autobiographical Twentieth Century / Rodak, Paweł -- 8. REPORTAGE -- Transformations of Polish Reportage / Ziątek, Zygmunt -- The Four Elements of Reportage (Melchior Wańkowicz) / Nowacka, Beata -- New Polish Idiom (Mariusz Szczygieł) / Kaczorowski, Aleksander -- 9. LITERARY THEORY -- From Soul to Science and Back Again: A Short Stroll through Polish Twentieth-Century Literary Theory / Kasztenna, Katarzyna -- 10. FILM -- Negotiating the Aesthetic: The Politics of Polish Postwar Cinema / Ostrowska, Elżbieta -- History and Grand Narratives (Andrzej Wajda) / Falkowska, Janina -- Neither East, nor West (Jerzy Skolimowski) / Mazierska, Ewa -- Poetics of Chance (Krzysztof Kieślowski) / Sobolewski, Tadeusz -- Not Quite Alla Polacca (Wojciech Jerzy Has) / Taras, Katarzyna -- Poetry of the Discarded (Dorota Kędzierzawska) / Iłłakowicz, Krystyna -- 11. POPULAR CULTURE -- Popular Culture in Poland / Krajewski, Marek -- Between Personal and Collective Memory: History and Politics in Polish Comics / Stańczyk, Ewa -- 12. MASS MEDIA -- Media and Culture / Bendyk, Edwin -- Subject Index -- Name Index
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