106 research outputs found

    (Review) Olesha\u27s Envy

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    Reviewed work(s): Olesha\u27s Envy: A Critical Companion by Rimgaila Saly

    (Review) Alienated Women: A Study on Polish Women\u27s Fiction, 1848-1918

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    Reviewed work(s): Alienated Women: A Study on Polish Women\u27s Fiction, 1848-1918 by Grażyna Borkowsk

    (Review) Miedzy psem a wilkiem

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    Reviews the book Miedzy psem a wilkiem, by Sasha Sokolov and translated by Aleksander Boguslawski

    Canonizing the Wieszcz: the Subjective Turn in Polish Literary Biography in the 1860s

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    Part of a forum on the work of Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz. The writer examines the radical change in the presentation of poets\u27 biographies in Polish textbooks of literature during the 1860s. She contends that this change coincided with the stabilization of a Polish romantic literary canon and involved, among other things, the subject\u27s personal life, contributions to the national cause, and subjective experiences and feelings. This subjective turn in literary biography demonstrates the relationship between canon building and nation building, she argues, in the respect that it served to unite millions of people living under different political systems. Moreover, she concludes, the development shows that the popularization of Mickiewicz as a familiar figure in educational curricula played a decisive role in his endemic acceptance as a national icon

    (Review) The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin

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    Reviews the book \u27The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin,\u27 by William Mills Todd III

    (Review) Polish Literature from 1864 to 1918: Realism and Young Poland

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    The article reviews the book Polish Literature From 1864 to 1918: Realism and Young Poland: An Anthology, edited and translated by Michael J. Mikoṡ

    (Review) Polish Literature from 1918 to 2000: An Anthology

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    The article reviews the book Polish Literature From 1918 to 2000: An Anthology, edited and translated by Michael J. MikoÅ›

    (Review) Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland

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    Reviewed work(s): Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland by Beth Holmgre
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