Post-Traumatic Outsider (Leopold Buczkowski)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Adam Mickiewicz Institute xiii
5. “Ex Pluribus Plures”: Cultural Histories in the Twenty-First Century xv
6. Part I: Transitions “Ex Pluribus Plures”: Cultural Histories in the Twenty-First Century
7. 1. SARMATISM
8. Sarmatism, or the Secrets of Polish Essentialism 1
9. Spectres of Sarmatism 30
10. 2. ROMANTICISM
11. The Splintering of a Myth: Polish Romantic Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 48
12. (Polish) Romanticism: From Canon to Agon 68
13. 3. MODERNISM
14. A Concise Companion to Polish Modernism 105
15. The Modernist Formation of Polish Literature 132
16. Part II: Strategies
17. 1. CANONICAL STRATEGIES
18. Requiem for a Canon? The Peculiar Case of the Transatlantic Canon 153
19. 2. EMANCIPATORY STRATEGIES
20. Polish Modernist Literature: Emancipative Strategies in Prose 165
21. 3. TRANSGRESSIVE STRATEGIES
22. Delectatio furiosa, or, the Modes of Cultural Transgression 186
23. 4. COMPENSATORY STRATEGIES
24. Delectatio morosa, or, the Modes of Affective Compensation in Polish Memory Culture 217
25. Part III: Transmissions
26. 1. IMMIGRANT/ÉMIGRÉ, MIGRANT, AND TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
27. Emigration and Its Cultural Legacy in Twentieth-Century Polish Intellectual History 245
28. The Polish-Language Cabaret Song: Its Multi-Ethnic Pedigree and Transnational Adventures, 1919–1968 258
29. 2. LITERATURE IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN POLISH
30. Polish Literatures and Its Languages 273
31. 3. TRANSLATION
32. Translation as Comparison 290
33. Translated from the Polish: The Fates, Feats, and Foibles of Polish Literature in English 308
34. Part IV: Genres and Their Discontents
35. 1. INTERWAR PROSE
36. Interwar Prose 329
37. Modern Midrash: A Poetics of Exegesis, Empathy, and Encounter (Bruno Schulz) 347
38. Iconoclasm and Nation Building (Witold Gombrowicz) 356
39. Politics and Ethics of Human Relations (Zofia Nałkowska) 362
40. Troubled Modernism (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz) 367
41. 2. WAR, POSTWAR, AND POST-1989 PROSE
42. Shifting Sands: History of Polish Prose, 1945–2015 372
43. Post-Traumatic Outsider (Leopold Buczkowski) 407
44. Futurological Philosophy (Stanisław Lem) 412
45. Mythical Subversions (Olga Tokarczuk) 417
46. Alternative Cartographies (Andrzej Stasiuk) 423
47. 3. INTERWAR, WAR, POSTWAR, AND POST-1989 POETRY
48. Polish Twentieth-Century Poetry 428
49. Matter, Spirit, and Linguistic Metamorphoses (Bolesław Leśmian) 470
50. Metaphor, Vision, and Poetic Construction (Julian Przyboś) 475
51. Depth of Doubt (Tadeusz Różewicz) 479
52. Against Dualities with Life-Writing (Miron Białoszewski) 485
53. Euphoria of the Ordinary (Anna Świrszczyńska) 490
54. 4. INTERWAR DRAMA
55. Drama of the Interwar Period (1918–1939) 495
56. Apocalyptic Fears; Aesthetic Daring (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz) 514
57. Revolution as the Psychic Condition of the Twentieth Century (Stanisława Przybyszewska) 518
58. The Power of Spectacle (Leon Schiller) 523
59. The Theatre of Truth (Juliusz Osterwa) 529
60. 5. POSTWAR AND POST-1989 DRAMA
61. Drama as a Manifold Portrait: Polish Drama after the Second World War 535
62. Border States and Boundary Crossings (Tadeusz Różewicz) 570
63. Poland – Local Universe (Sławomir Mrożek) 574
64. Revolt of Memory (Tadeusz Kantor) 579
65. The Dramaturgy of Jerzy Grotowski 584
66. 6. THE ESSAY
67. The Polish Essay: Between Realism and Nominalism 590
68. Trial and Error: Between Criticism and Essayism (Karol Irzykowski) 607
69. Metaphysics of Experience (Czesław Miłosz) 611
70. History of Ideas (Leszek Kołakowski) 615
71. Hermeneutics of the Marginal (Jolanta Brach-Czaina) 622
72. 7. DIARIES
73. Poland’s Autobiographical Twentieth Century 627
74. 8. REPORTAGE
75. Transformations of Polish Reportage 642
76. The Four Elements of Reportage (Melchior Wańkowicz) 658
77. New Polish Idiom (Mariusz Szczygieł) 663
78. 9. LITERARY THEORY
79. From Soul to Science and Back Again: A Short Stroll through Polish Twentieth-Century Literary Theory 668
80. 10. FILM
81. Negotiating the Aesthetic: The Politics of Polish Postwar Cinema 691
82. History and Grand Narratives (Andrzej Wajda) 713
83. Neither East, nor West (Jerzy Skolimowski) 718
84. Poetics of Chance (Krzysztof Kieślowski) 723
85. Not Quite Alla Polacca (Wojciech Jerzy Has) 729
86. Poetry of the Discarded (Dorota Kędzierzawska) 734
87. 11. POPULAR CULTURE
88. Popular Culture in Poland 739
89. Between Personal and Collective Memory: History and Politics in Polish Comics 762
90. 12. MASS MEDIA
91. Media and Culture 774
92. Subject Index 793
93. Name Index 803