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...Wisława Szymborska; Ryszard Krynicki; Bronislaw Maj; Adam Zagajewski Duke University Press 2010 not for sale Translated by Clare Cavanagh FICTION and poetry RECENT POLISH POEMS Wisława Szymborska, Ryszard Krynicki...

...Alissa Valles Abstract Under the sign of Libitina, the Roman goddess of burials and funerals invoked in Horace's Ode 3.30, this essay provides a celebratory introduction to the work of the Polish Jewish poet Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–44), situating her within the cultural history of commemoration...

... inspiration for grappling with these issues in the same apparently odd place: the work of the Polish microbiologist and comparative epistemologist Ludwik Fleck. The first part of this essay explores the role of Fleck's radical constructivism in Smith's analyses of perplexing Anthropocene realities...

... the Polish “Generation of `68” how best to undo oppression and why they should do so. Emphasis falls on the difficulty, unpredictability, and unclassifiable features of Kołakowski's writings—features that, paradoxically, did not stand in the way of his becoming not only the “prince of philosophers,” but also...

...Robin Davidson This essay examines the work of Ewa Lipska, who, since the publication of her first book in 1967, has been among the most acclaimed of recent Polish poets but less well known in the West than Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, or Adam Zagajewski. She is a philosophical poet, making...

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... Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 175 are by Clare Cavanagh. 1 . All translations from Polish, unless otherwise noted, noted, otherwise unless Polish, from translations All...

... thing resembling it. Each of these events has had its own specific context in its own country. Likewise in my country, Poland, the debates among historians, 517 intellectuals, and politicians express specifically Polish concerns about Polish memory...

... the League of Polish Families. February 12, 2009). Common Knowledge 15:3 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2009-012 © 2009 by Duke...

... of “imag- inative geography” because it was for over one hundred years a fact of no other kind.11 Despite this Polish credential, only one European country, Ireland, has generated a sizable literature in critical theory on its troubled colonial past and semipostcolonial present. Ireland is, as Seamus...

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... Conrad is suggested by the sheer complexity of his life, his mind, and his artistic imagination. “Homo duplex has in my case more than one meaning,” he wrote to a Polish friend. Relating this quality of Conrad's ethos to his fictional work as well as to his essays and letters, I am forcibly struck...

... humanity—realism about how much humans may do to humanize themselves—I chose my title in Lithuania in July 1995. I was relaxing after a wonderful alfresco meal, prepared by my Polish trav- eling companions and guides in our railway compartment. But train journeys...

... hour I had forgotten her. Now and then, Beata and Jurek would speak briefly to each other in Polish. I had the disturbing feeling that everything that was being said in German was just play or fluff, but in Polish they were saying their real thoughts, which were serious and adult, hard...

..., . COMMON KNOWLEDGE 8 space that had dominated German and Polish historiography in the past” ( past” the in Polishhistoriography and German dominated had that space national interpretations hitherto so typical of the defi of historiography...

... Aleksander Wat, the great Polish poet, was quick quick was Wat,Polishpoet, great the Aleksander ( 6 mine. are noted, otherwise (Paris: Libella, 5 4...

... Serhiy Zhadan , the author of twelve poetry collections and seven novels in Ukrainian, was nominated this year for the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Polish Academy of Sciences. Among the dozen awards that he has received are the Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski Literary Prize, the Derek Walcott...

... and environmental degradation. 26. Löwy, “Ways of Seeing” ; Löwy, Polish School . 27. Fleck, Genesis and Development , 94–95 . 28. Latour, Science in Action . 29. The debates are well represented in Pickering, Science as Practice and Culture . 30. See Kevles, Physicists...

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... of Antiquaries and of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of Gothic Architecture in the Reign of Kasimir the Great: Church Architecture in Lesser Poland, 1320 – 1370, as well as coauthor of Medieval Art and Its Intellectual Context and Medieval Architecture...