Polish Poetry of the Last Two Decades of Communist Rule
Polish Poetry of the Last Two Decades of Communist Rule

Author: Stanisław Barańczak

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780810109681

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The past thirty years have witnessed some of the most traumatic and inspiring moments in Polish history. This turbulent period has also been a time of unprecedented achievement in all forms of Polish poetry--lyric, religious, political, meditative. This comprehensive volume includes work from virtually every major Polish poet active during these critical decades, drawing from both "official" and underground/émigré sources.

Being Poland
Being Poland

Author: Tamara Trojanowska

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 853

ISBN-13: 1442650184

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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.

The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies

Author: Patt Leonard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-02-27

Total Pages: 1725

ISBN-13: 1315480832

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This bibliography, first published in 1957, provides citations to North American academic literature on Europe, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union. Organised by discipline, it covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and technology.

Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

Author: Mary Zirin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 2121

ISBN-13: 131745197X

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This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.

A History of Central European Women's Writing
A History of Central European Women's Writing

Author: C. Hawkesworth

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-04-10

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 033398515X

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A History of Central European Women's Writing offers a unique survey of literature from the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia. It introduces a little known area of European literature from a unique point of view, illustrating the development of women's writing in the region from the middle ages to the present day. If offers a broad historical survey, placing individual writers in their social and political context and showing how processes shaping their lives are reflected in their works.

Rereading Russian Poetry
Rereading Russian Poetry

Author: Stephanie Sandler

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780300071498

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Russia's poets hold a special place in Russian culture, perhaps revealing more about their country than poets within any other nation. In this unique and wide-ranging collection of writings on poets and poetic trends in Russia, contributors from the United States, Britain, and Russia examine the place of poetry in Russian culture. Through a variety of critical approaches, these scholars, translators, and poets consider a broad cross section of Russian poets, from Pushkin to Brodsky, Shvarts, and Kibirov.

Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones

Author: Dennis O'Driscoll

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-12-09

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 0374269831

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Chronicles the life of twentieth-century Irish poet Seamus Heaney, from his infancy to his Nobel Prize in 1995, and also discusses his post-Nobel life, family, writings, and other related topics.

Wanderers Across Language
Wanderers Across Language

Author: Kinga Olszewska

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-02

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1351195379

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"Exile has become a potent symbol of Polish and Irish cultures. Historical, political and cultural predicaments of both countries have branded them as diasporic nations: but, in Adorno's dictum, for an exile writing becomes home. Olszewska offers a multifaceted picture of the figure of exile in postwar Poland and Ireland, juxtaposing politics and culture: whereas Irish exile appears more in an economic and cultural context, the essence of Polish exile is political. This comparative study of works by Polish and Irish authors - Stanislaw Baranczak, Adam Zagajewski, Marek Hlasko, Kazimierz Brandys, Brian Moore, Desmond Hogan and Paul Muldoon - shows a literature which not only depicts the experience of exile, but which uses exile as a literary device."

Irish Poets and Modern Greece
Irish Poets and Modern Greece

Author: Joanna Kruczkowska

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-21

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 3319581694

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This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Delving into travel writing, ecocriticism, translation and allusion, it offers a fresh comparative link between Greek modernity and Irish poetry that counterbalances the preeminence of Greek antiquity in existing criticism. The first section, devoted to travel and landscape, examines Mahon’s modern perception of the Aegean, inspired by his travels to the Cyclades between 1974 and 1997, as well as Heaney’s philhellenic relationship with mainland Greece between 1995 and 2004. The second section offers a close analysis of their C. P. Cavafy translations, and compares George Seferis’ original texts with their creative rendition in the writings of the Irish poets. The book will appeal to readers of poetry as well as those interested in the interactions between Ireland and Greece, two countries at the extreme points of Europe, in times of crisis.

Holocaust Literature: Agosín to Lentin
Holocaust Literature: Agosín to Lentin

Author: S. Lillian Kremer

Publisher: Taylor & Francis US

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 800

ISBN-13: 0415929830

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Review: "This encyclopedia offers an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the important writers and works that form the literature about the Holocaust and its consequences. The collection is alphabetically arranged and consists of high-quality biocritical essays on 309 writers who are first-, second-, and third-generation survivors or important thinkers and spokespersons on the Holocaust. An essential literary reference work, this publication is an important addition to the genre and a solid value for public and academic libraries."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004