Frajlich / Meyer The Ghost of Shakespeare

Collected Essays
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-64469-473-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten

Reihe: Polish Studies

This first edition of the collected critical prose of Anna Frajlich, scholar of Polish literature and culture and award-winning Polish poet, presents comparative studies of major modern Polish writers, including Choromanski, Grynberg, Herbert, Milosz, Schulz, Szymborska, and Wittlin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frajlich, Anna

Meyer, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of ContentsAuthor’s PrefacePart One: On Poetry1. Czeslaw Milosz: The Ambivalent Landscape of Return

2. He Also Knew How to Be Gracious (Czeslaw Milosz)
3. From Common Servant to Lot’s Wife (Wislawa Szymborska)
4. Intellect Imbued with Clarity, Grace, and Humor: Notes on Wislawa Szymborska

5. The Ghost of Shakespeare in the Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska
6. The Last Time We Saw Her. (Wislawa Szymborska)
7. Apollo and Marsyas: A Tribute to Zbigniew Herbert
8. Poet of the Seventh Climate: Recurrent Images in the Poetry of Bronislaw Przyluski
9. A Canon of His Own (Vasyl Makhno)
10. Must Poetry Be Absolutely Modern?Part Two: On Polish Prose11. Two Unknown Soldiers (Józef Wittlin)
12. Bruno Schulz: Mythmaker and Legend
13. The Lifelong Passion of Jerzy Ficowski
14. Jealousy, Sex, and Character: Michal Choromanski and Otto Weininger

15. Narrative Strategies: The Case of Andrzej Bobkowski

16. Henryk Grynberg: His Quest for Artistic and Non-Artistic Truth
17. Finding the Way between Globalization and Decentralization: Polish Literature after 1989Part Three: On Russian Symbolist Poetry18. Three Great Romans in Valery Bryusov’s Poetry

19. The Contradictions of the Northern Pilgrim: Dmitry Merezhkovsky
20. The Quest for Pax Romana as a Quest for Peace of Mind. Vasily Komarovsky
21. The Scepter of the Far East and the Crown of the Third Rome: The Russo-Japanese War in the Mirror of Russian PoetryPart Four: Autobiography22. My Native Realm
23. My “Unprocessed” Holocaust
24. March Began in June: My “Processed” Trauma
25. The Price of Integrity
26. Cultural Diversity in the Workplace
27. Writing Polish in America
28. Identity and Difference: The Power of LanguageAfterword
Departures, Returns, Memory: The Collected Essays of Anna FrajlichBibliography
Selected Honors and Publications

Über Autor(innen)

Frajlich Anna:

Anna Frajlich (Senior Lecturer Emerita) taught Polish language and literature at Columbia University for over three decades. She is author of 10 books of poetry and three bilingual editions (English, French, Italian). In 2002 she received The Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit, awarded by the President of the Polish Republic. Recipient of literary awards from Koscielski Foundation, Turzanski Foundation, and the Union of Polish Writers in Exile.Meyer Ronald:

Ronald Meyer is Publications Editor at the Harriman Institute. He teaches the seminar in Russian literary translation at Columbia University.Anna Frajlich (Senior Lecturer Emerita) taught Polish language and literature at Columbia University for over three decades. She is author of ten books of poetry and three bilingual editions (English, French, Italian). In 2002 she received The Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit, awarded by the President of the Polish Republic. Frajlich is also the recipient of literary awards from Koscielski Foundation, Turzanski Foundation, and the Union of Polish Writers in Exile. Ronald Meyer is Publications Editor at the Harriman Institute. He teaches the seminar in Russian literary translation at Columbia University.