...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...

... 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...

... for. In 1981, I defined my ideal of a “Solidarity Poland” in these terms: 1.  Adam Michnik, “Praying for Rain,” wyborcza.pl/ 2.  PiS is the Law and Justice Party, Samoobrony the Self- 1,82049,4351018.html?as=1&ias=2&startsz=x (accessed Defense Party, and LPR the League of Polish Families. February 12...

... 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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... 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...

... 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...

.... Elfriede Blume had already been old when my brother and I were small, living in southern Germany. She was like a grandmother to us, yet we always called her Frau Blume, addressing her in the polite form. She had recently moved up here to live with her Polish nephew Jurek. Frau Blume had no children of her...

..., . 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...

... there was any such concept as Christianity, or even religion denied, like the early followers of Jesus, that Jew and Jesus- believer were mutually exclusive terms. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik has largely been forgotten, though his commentary on the Gospels had appeared in French, German, and Polish...

... 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...

....  COMMON KNOWLEDGE 226 Bart Bachman, “Diminishing Solidarity: Polish Atti Polish Solidarity: “Diminishing Bachman, Bart Online Journal...

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