«Milosz Like the World»: Poet in the Eyes of Polish Literary Critics

by Zdzislaw Lapinski (Editor)

Overview

The most comprehensive book in English on the Nobel Laureate Czesław Miłosz combines literary and historical approaches to his poems, essays, literary criticism and translations and to his poetic self-image. It offers an account of the Polish cultural milieu in the 20th century and interprets the fate of poetry under two totalitarian regimes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631626719
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/15/2014
Series:	Cross-Roads: Studies in Culture, Literary Theory, and History , #6
Edition description:	Translatio
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Zdzisław Łapiński is a professor in the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Author of books and articles on Norwid and Polish Modernist poets as well as on socialist realism, he recently prepared a volume devoted to poetry by Czesław Miłosz.

Table of Contents

Contents: Teresa Walas: Miłosz as a Figure of Problematic Identity – Michał Paweł Markowski: The Dilemmas of Self-Presentation – Aleksander Fiut: Żagary and Skamander - Czesław Miłosz’s Correspondence with Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz – Maria Janion: Kroński - Miłosz: An Episode from the History of Ideas and Poetry – Stefan Chwin: The Time of the Bible and the Time of Mr. Cogitp. or the Essence of the Dispute between Herbert and Miłosz – Leszek Kołakowski: Ninety Years in Search of a Homeland – Stanisław Balbus: «The First Movement Is a Singing»: A Preliminary Study of Miłosz’s Verse – Marian Stala: «Ecstasy at Sunrise»: Among Miłosz’s Major Themes – Stanisław Balbus: «Conversation at Easter 1620» - An Intertextual Interpretation – Ryszard Nycz: «Thrown in the Geographically Shaky Position»: Czesław Miłosz’s Experience of Space and Place – Elżbieta Rybicka: Homo Geopgraphicus: The Topographies and Auto-Bio-Geographies of Czesław Miłosz (A Reconnaissance) – Elżbieta Kiślak: Destined Affinities and Eclectic Love – Jacek Łukasiewicz: Poet on Poets – Marek Zaleski: Songs of Innocence and Experience – Łukasz Tischner: Towards Fullness – Stanisław Barańczak: Dawns – Michał Głowiński: «Outskirts» – Aleksandra Okopoień- Sławińska: «Outskirts» as another «Song on the End of the World»: A Contribution to the Definition of Czesław Miłosz’s Poetic Art – Jerzy Kwiatkowski: Miłosz at the Brink of the Occupation: «The River» – Jan Błoński: The Intellect’s Return: A Treatise on Poetry (1957) – Adam Dziadek: Poetry as Interpretation of Art: Czesław Miłosz’s Poems about Pictures – Danuta Opacka-Walasek: A Pastiche Against Dying: «In Honour of Reverend Baka» by Czesław Miłosz – Piotr Śliwiński: A Sinking Life – Ewa Bieńkowska: Miłosz and the Book of Psalms.

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