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Wanderers across language : exile in Irish and Polish literature of the twentieth century / Kinga Olszewska.
Van Pelt Library PN56.5.E96 O47 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olszewska, Kinga.
- Series:
- Studies in comparative literature (Oxford, England) ; 12.
- Studies in comparative literature ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Exile (Punishment) in literature.
- Exiles in literature.
- Emigration and immigration in literature.
- Irish literature--20th century--Themes, motives.
- Irish literature.
- Polish literature--20th century--Themes, motives.
- Polish literature.
- Themes, motives.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 186 pages ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Legenda, 2007.
- Summary:
- Exile has become a potent symbol of Polish and Irish cultures. Historical, political and cultural predicaments of both countries have branded them as diasporic nations: but, in Adorno's dictum, for an exile writing becomes home. Olszewska offers a multifaceted picture of the figure of exile in postwar Poland and Ireland, juxtaposing politics and culture: whereas Irish exile appears more in an economic and cultural context, the essence of Polish exile is political. This comparative study of works by Polish and Irish authors - Stanislaw Baranczak, Adam Zagajewski, Marek Hlasko, Kazimierz Brandys, Brian Moore, Desmond Hogan and Paul Muldoon - shows a literature which not only depicts the experience of exile, but which uses exile as a literary device.
- Contents:
- List of Quotations used as Epigraphs xi
- 1 Definitions and Representations of Exile 7
- Part I The Origins 7
- Part II History Alienates, Politics Banishes 17
- Part III The Experience 40
- 2 Exile as Punishment and Liberation: The Works of Kazimierz Brandys and Brian Moore 56
- 3 Moral, Cultural and Communal Estrangement in the Fiction of Marek Hlasko and Desmond Hogan 83
- 4 Intellectual Dissidence in the Poetry of Stanislaw Baranczak, Adam Zagajewski and Paul Muldoon 109.
- Notes:
- Revised doctoral thesis, National University of Ireland.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781905981083
- 1905981082
- OCLC:
- 148998968
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