The ghost of Shakespeare : collected essays / Anna Frajlich ; edited and with an afterword by Ronald Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frajlich, Anna, author.

Contributor:

Meyer, Ronald, editor, writer of foreword.

Series:

Polish studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frajlich, Anna.

Authors, Polish--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Polish.

Polish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Polish literature.

Russian poetry--Roman influences.

Russian poetry.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, [2020]

Summary:

This volume collects the critical prose of award-winning writer Anna Frajlich. The Ghost of Shakespeare takes its name from Frajlich’s essay on Nobel Prize laureate Wisława Szymborska, but informs her approach as a comparativist more generally as she considers the work of major Polish writers of the twentieth century, including Zbigniew Herbert, Czesław Miłosz, and Bruno Schulz. Frajlich’s study of the Roman theme in Russian Symbolism owes its origins to her stay in the Eternal City, the second stop on her exile from Poland in 1969. The book concludes with essays in autobiography that describe her parents’ dramatic flight from Poland at the outbreak of the war, her own exile from Poland in 1969, settling in New York City, and building her career as a scholar and leading poet of her generation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Part One —On Poetry

1. Czesław Miłosz: The Ambivalent Landscape of Return

2. He Also Knew How to Be Gracious (Czesław Miłosz)

3. From Common Servant to Lot’s Wife (Wisława Szymborska)

4. Intellect Imbued with Clarity, Grace, and Humor Notes on Wisława Szymborska

5. The Ghost of Shakespeare in the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska

6. The Last Time We Saw Her . . . (Wisława Szymborska)

7. Apollo and Marsyas: A Tribute to Zbigniew Herbert

8. Poet of the Seventh Climate: Recurrent Images in the Poetry of Bronisław Przyłuski

9. A Canon of His Own (Vasyl Makhno)

10. Must Poetry Be Absolutely Modern?

Part Two—On Polish Prose

11. Two Unknown Soldiers (Józef Wittlin)

12. Bruno Schulz: Mythmaker and Legend

13. The Lifelong Passion of Jerzy Ficowski

14. Jealousy, Sex, and Character: Michał Choromański and Otto Weininger

15. Narrative Strategies: The Case of Andrzej Bobkowski

16. Henryk Grynberg: His Quest for Artistic and Non-Artistic Truth

17. Finding the Way between Globalization and Decentralization: Polish Literature after 1989

Part Three—On Russian Symbolism

18. Three Great Romans in the Poetry of Valery Bryusov

19. The Contradictions of the Northern Pilgrim: Dmitry Merezhkovsky

20. The Quest for Pax Romana as a Quest for Peace of Mind: Vasily Komarovsky

21. The Scepter of the Far East and the Crown of the Third Rome: The Russo-Japanese War in the Mirror of Russian Poetry

Part Four—On Writing and Exile

22. My Native Realm

23. My “Unprocessed” Holocaust

24. March Began in June: My “Processed” Trauma

25. The Price of Integrity

26. Cultural Diversity in the Workplace

27. Writing Polish in America

28. Identity and Difference: The Power of Language

Afterword. Departures, Returns and Memory in the Collected Essays of Anna Frajlich

Bibliography

Selected Honors and Publications

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64469-473-5

1-64469-472-7

OCLC:

1164818163