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Author:   Anna Artwińska ,  Anna Artwińska ,  Bartłomiej Starnawski ,  Grzegorz Wołowiec
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   3
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9783631630556

ISBN 10:   3631630557
Pages:   471
Publication Date:   06 June 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: Anna Artwińska/Bartłomiej Starnawski/Grzegorz Wołowiec: Introduction: Socialist Realism in Polish Literary Research – Anna Artwińska/Bartłomiej Starnawsk/Grzegorz Wołowiec: «Fluctuat nec mergitur…» On Socialist Realism in Meta-Discursive Perspective – Michał Głowiński: Realism and Demagoguery – Zdzisław Łapiński: How to Co-Exist with Socialist Realism? – Janusz Sławiński: A «New Type» of Literary Criticism in the Stalinist Period – Zbigniew Jarosiński: Literature as Power – Leszek Szaruga: The Literary Canon of Polish Socialist Realism – Michał Głowiński: «Don’t Let the Past Run Wild»: The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course as Mythical Narrative – Jerzy Smulski: The Literature of Socialist Realism: Selected Genological Issues – Wojciech Tomasik: Newspeak: Style as Language – Wojciech Tomasik: Literary Clichés in Polish Tendentious Novel 1949-1955 – Dariusz Śnieżko: The 20th-Century Panegyric Situation – Grzegorz Wołowiec: The Ambiguous Charm of Self-Criticism – Edward Balcerzan: Socialist Realism - Subversions and Deviations – Jerzy Smulski: Variance in the Socialist Realist Literary Text as a Scholarly Issue: Thoughts on Examples from Russian and Polish Literary Studies – Anna Zarzycka: Wisława Szymborska as an Author of Socialist Realist Poems – Tadeusz Kłak: Scenes from the Life of a Poet: Tadeusz Różewicz’s Adventures with Socialist Realist Criticism – Daria Mazur: PAX and Socialist Realism: A Marriage of Convenience? – Anna Artwińska: Two Left Shoes: «The Marxist Breakthrough» in Poland and Its Context – John M. Bates: Censorship in the Stalinist Era – Stefan Zabierowski: Melania Kierczyńska: The Socialist Realist Critic – Wojciech Tomasik: Literature Without Literariness: On Socialist Realist Literature and Research.

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Anna Artwińska is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the University of Hamburg. Her research interests include socialist realism, memory and post-memory of communism, post-colonial studies, as well as concepts of generation and genealogy in literature. Bartłomiej Starnawski is a historian of literature at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. In his research he looks at socialist realism and literature of the People’s Republic of Poland from the perspective of history and theory of literature. Grzegorz Wołowiec is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. He researches literature and literary life in the People’s Republic of Poland, both from the historiographic and from the meta-historical perspective.

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