Stanisław Brzozowski as Harbinger and Enabler of Modern Literary Theory in Poland and the West

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. On Brzozowski’s Presence and Absence in Poland and Beyond 7
4. TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
5. “Sounding out idols”: Brzozowski and Strindberg as Nietzsche Readers 23
6. “Ibsen! Oh, let us not invoke this name in vain!” Brzozowski’s Ibsen Not-quite-read 39
7. Stanisław Brzozowski and Die Neue Zeit 57
8. Les Déracinés: Brzozowski and Barrès 77
9. The Cult of Will and Power: Did Brzozowski Inspire Ukrainian Nationalism? 107
10. Brzozowski and Cioran: The Legend of Young Poland and The Transformation of Romania 133
11. Brzozowski and the Italians 139
12. Brzozowski and Rorty: Coping with the Contingent Self 159
13. BRZOZOWSKI’S PRESENCE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY
14. Stanisław Brzozowski and Romantic Revision (Meyer Howard Abrams, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom): Prolegomena 187
15. Brzozowski as Precursor to Contemporary Studies on Cyprian Norwid’s Legacy 209
16. Brzozowskianism: The Trouble with the “Great” Brzozowski and His Followers 237
17. “…actually speaking, this man converted me”: Jerzy Liebert, Brzozowski, and the Question of a Modern Religous Poetry 249
18. Stanisław Brzozowski as Harbinger and Enabler of Modern Literary Theory in Poland and the West 273
19. The Stalinist Reception of Stanisław Brzozowski’s Philosophy: The Case of Paweł Hoffman 303
20. Brzozowski and the Question of Engagement: On a Different Concept of the Autonomy of Art 321
21. Brzozowski or Plots of the Future 339
22. Epilogue 351
23. Contributors 359