
World under Revision
The Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska
Wojciech Ligeza(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 26. August 2019
Book
Hardback
194 pages
978-3-631-67604-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entirety of Wislawa Szymborska's poetic oeuvre. The author employs in-depth historical reflection on Szymborska's beginnings to reveal that - without describing her post-war beginnings and reflecting on her early entanglement in socialist realist newspeak - Szymborska's mature anti-dogmatic attitude will remain unclear. The book shows how Szymborska's rhetoric and stylistics - figures of reservation, negation, contradiction, tautology, and repetition - are closely connected with the construction of the poetic world and affect the shape of her messages. After all, Wislawa Szymborska is a poet of sophisticated wit, a surprising freedom of expression, and an unusual game with various literary styles, even with colloquial Polish.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-67604-2 (9783631676042)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-06927-3
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E-Book
09/2019
Peter Lang Verlag
€55.99
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Persons
Wojciech Ligeza is a Polish professor of literary studies, literary critic, and essayist. Since 1984, he teaches at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. In his work, he focuses on twentieth-century Polish literature at home and abroad, especially the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska, Czeslaw Milosz, and Zbigniew Herbert.
Content
Wislawa Szymborska - Poetry - Socialist realism - Newspeak - Anti-dogmatic attitude - Reservation - Negation - Contradiction - Tautology - Repetition - Wit - Games with literary styles