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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 Wisawa 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, Czesaw Miosz, 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 autobiographical essaysthat 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.

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Author:   Anna Frajlich ,  Ronald Meyer
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781644694718

ISBN 10:   1644694719
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   10 December 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Author's 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 Symbolist Poetry 18. Three Great Romans in Valery Bryusov's Poetry 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: Autobiography 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, Memory: The Collected Essays of Anna Frajlich Bibliography Selected Honors and Publications

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Anna Frajlich (Senior Lecturer Emerita) taught Polish language and literature at Columbia University for over three decades. She is author of ten books of poetry and three bilingual editions (English, French, Italian). In 2002 she received The Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit, awarded by the President of the Polish Republic. Frajlich is also the recipient of literary awards from Kocielski Foundation, Turzaski Foundation, and the Union of Polish Writers in Exile. Ronald Meyer is Publications Editor at the Harriman Institute. He teaches the seminar in Russian literary translation at Columbia University.

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