Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Adam Mickiewicz Institute
“Ex Pluribus Plures”: Cultural Histories in the Twenty-First Century
Part I: Transitions
	1 Sarmatism
		Sarmatism, or the Secrets of Polish Essentialism
		Spectres of Sarmatism
	2 Romanticism
		The Splintering of a Myth: Polish Romantic Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
		(Polish) Romanticism: From Canon to Agon
	3 Modernism
		A Concise Companion to Polish Modernism
		The Modernist Formation of Polish Literature
Part II: Strategies
	1 Canonical Strategies
		Requiem for a Canon? The Peculiar Case of the Transatlantic Canon
	2 Emancipatory Strategies
		Polish Modernist Literature: Emancipative Strategies in Prose
	3 Transgressive Strategies
		Delectatio furiosa, or, the Modes of Cultural Transgression
	4 Compensatory Strategies
		Delectatio morosa, or, the Modes of Affective Compensation in Polish Memory Culture
Part III: Transmissions
	1 Immigrant/Émigré, Migrant, and Transnationalliterature and Culture
		Emigration and Its Cultural Legacy in Twentieth-Century Polish Intellectual History
		The Polish-Language Cabaret Song: Its Multi-Ethnic Pedigree and Transnational Adventures, 1919–1968
	2 Literature in Languages other than Polish
		Polish Literatures and Its Languages
	3 Translation
		Translation as Comparison
		Translated from the Polish: The Fates, Feats, and Foibles of Polish Literature in English
Part IV: Genres and Their Discontents
	1 Interwar Prose
		Interwar Prose
			Modern Midrash: A Poetics of Exegesis, Empathy, and Encounter (Bruno Schulz)
			Iconoclasm and Nation Building (Witold Gombrowicz)
			Politics and Ethics of Human Relations (Zofia Nałkowska)
			Troubled Modernism (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz)
	2 War, Postwar, and Post-1989 Prose
		Shifting Sands: History of Polish Prose, 1945–2015
			Post-Traumatic Outsider (Leopold Buczkowski)
			Futurological Philosophy (Stanisław Lem)
			Mythical Subversions (Olga Tokarczuk)
			Alternative Cartographies (Andrzej Stasiuk)
	3 Interwar, War, Postwar, and Post-1989 Poetry
		Polish Twentieth-Century Poetry
			Matter, Spirit, and Linguistic Metamorphoses (Bolesław Leśmian)
			Metaphor, Vision, and Poetic Construction (Julian Przyboś)
			Depth of Doubt (Tadeusz Różewicz)
			Against Dualities with Life-Writing (Miron Białoszewski)
			Euphoria of the Ordinary (Anna Świrszczyńska)
	4 Interwar Drama
		Drama of the Interwar Period (1918–1939)
			Apocalyptic Fears; Aesthetic Daring (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz)
			Revolution as the Psychic Condition of the Twentieth Century (Stanisława Przybyszewska)
			The Power of Spectacle (Leon Schiller)
			The Theatre of Truth (Juliusz Osterwa)
	5 Postwar and Post-1989 Drama
		Drama as a Manifold Portrait: Polish Drama after the Second World War
			Border States and Boundary Crossings (Tadeusz Różewicz)
			Poland – Local Universe (Sławomir Mrożek)
			Revolt of Memory (Tadeusz Kantor)
			The Dramaturgy of Jerzy Grotowski
	6 The Essay
		The Polish Essay: Between Realism and Nominalism
			Trial and Error: Between Criticism and Essayism (Karol Irzykowski)
			Metaphysics of Experience (Czesław Miłosz)
			History of Ideas (Leszek Kołakowski)
			Hermeneutics of the Marginal (Jolanta Brach-Czaina)
	7 Diaries
		Poland’s Autobiographical Twentieth Century
	8 Reportage
		Transformations of Polish Reportage
			The Four Elements of Reportage (Melchior Wańkowicz)
			New Polish Idiom (Mariusz Szczygieł)
	9 Literary Theory
		From Soul to Science and Back Again: A Short Stroll through Polish Twentieth-Century Literary Theory
	10 Film
		Negotiating the Aesthetic: The Politics of Polish Postwar Cinema
			History and Grand Narratives (Andrzej Wajda)
			Neither East, nor West (Jerzy Skolimowski)
			Poetics of Chance (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
			Not Quite Alla Polacca (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
			Poetry of the Discarded (Dorota Kędzierzawska)
	11 Popular Culture
		Popular Culture in Poland
		Between Personal and Collective Memory: History and Politics in Polish Comics
	12 Mass Media
		Media and Culture
Subject Index
Name Index