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Format: 1 online resource (264 p.)

ISBN: 3-653-99904-9 , 3-653-02373-4

Series Statement: Cross-Roads. Polish Studies in Culture, Literary Theory, and History, Volume 5

Content: This is a reader's book about Wisława Szymborska's poetry. She holds the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1996. The Contents of the book are the Nobel Lecture held in Stockholm at the official ceremony by the poet in December 1996, a choice of Polish essays about Szmyborska's poetry and translations of her works into German, English, Spanish and French by Polish critics (translated into English). All essays were published at first in Polish in separated books or in literary revues. Since many years Wisława Szymborska's poetry is translated into many different languages and loved by readers

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , ""Cover""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""The Poet and the World: Nobel Lecture (Wislawa Szymborska)""; ""Poetry as Consciousness (Czesaw Miosz)""; ""Essays""; ""The Limits of Lyric: Western Theory and Postwar Polish Practice (Clare Cavanagh)""; ""1. The Lyric Under Siege""; ""2. Reframing the Verbal Icon""; ""The World in a State of Revision: The Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska (Wojciech Lizga)""; ""Wislawa Szymborska and the Wonders of a Disenchanted World (Arent van Nieukerken)""l , ""1. A General Characteristic of Szymborska's Poetic World Scientism and Perspectivism""""2. The Communal and Casual Character of Communication in Szymborska's Poetic World""; ""3. The Structure of Community in Szymborska's Poetry Humanity""; ""4. Existential Conditioning of the Transparency of Szymborska's Poetic Language""; ""5. The Act of Writing as a Renewal of the Primitive Community on the Side of Being""; ""6. Deconstruction and Creation as an Expression of the Incomplete Character of Our Entaglement with the World"" , ""7. Szymborska's Oxymoronic Attitude Toward the Experiencing of the World: Ordinary Miracle""""8. The Distinctiveness of Szymborska's Poetic Subject Existential and Genological Conditioning of Its Impersonality""; ""The World Trapped in a Poem. Self-reflection and the Poetical Practice of Wislawa Szymborska (Joanna Gredziel)""; ""Opposite/Opposed to the Definition/""; ""Transcending the Obvious""; ""The World Trapped in a Poem""; ""In the Beginning Was an Idea""; "" Choose While Rejecting""; ""To Be Not a Boxer, but a Poet"" , ""Szymborska Ex-Centric (Graeyna Borkowska)""""Women's Perspective in Szymborska's Poetry an Attempt at a Postfeminist Perspective (Boeena Karwowska)""; ""Calling Out to Yeti as an Expression of Existential Crisis (Anna Zarzycka)""; ""Bildungsroman""; ""Judge Night""; ""Why Yeti?""; ""Working on the World""; ""The Touching Untouched Detail (Piotr Michaeowski)""; ""Outside Human Perspective""; ""Written on Waters of Babel: Silence and Rhetorical Strategies of Wislawa Szymborska (Dorota Wojda)""; ""Postcard, a Sister of Lyric Poetry (Maegorzata Baranowska)"" , ""Close Reading""""Closer to the Poem: Cognitive Grammaras a Tool of Interpreting Poetic Text (Wislawa Szymborska's A Medieval Minature) (Elebieta Tabakowska)""; ""Introduction""; ""The Category of Superlative Semantics""; ""Image and word""; ""A Flawless Mirror, a Distorting Mirror of Postmodernism: Szymborska's Poetry in German (Andrzej Kopacki)""; ""No Conversation or Translating Szymborska into French (Krystyna Rodowska)""; ""Rampa Pampa Pam: Szymborska in the USA (Tadeusz Piero)""; ""Tandem and the Team Spirit:Szymborska Translated into Spanish (Krystyna Rodowska)"" , ""Praising Wislawa Szymborska. On the Margins of Swedish Translations by Anders Bodegerd (Leonard Neuger)"" , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-336-19796-X

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-631-62669-X

Language: English

DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-02373-2