Lidia Wiśniewska

Grażyna Borkowska

Polish contemporary literature is not a closed book to European and world readers. Those not involved professionally in the production or study of literature may well have heard of Stanisław Lem, Witold Gombrowicz, Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska or the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018, Olga Tokarczuk. The situation is different with Polish literature of earlier periods, including the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. The works of Ignacy Krasicki, Michał Czajkowski, J\'{o}zef Ignacy Kraszewski, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Maria Komornicka, Stefan Żeromski and Bolesław Prus - the exception perhaps is Henryk Sienkiewicz, whose novels were translated into many languages - did not enter European circulation on any large scale and have rarely been included in comparative studies. Our book attempts to change this perspective and poses the question as to whether another - expanded and more inclusive - literary canon is possible. Grażyna Borkowska is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences, a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the president of the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Association Lidia Wiś niewska is a professor and the Director of the Chair for General and Comparative Literature at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz and vice-president of the Adam Mickiewicz Literary Society Association

Another canon : the Polish nineteenth-century novel in world context

Jakub Lipski

Filling a significant gap in contemporary criticism of recent prose fiction, this book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative contexts. The chapters making up the volume range from myth-critical focused readings to interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives. Tokarczuk’s fiction is explored as mythopoeic and heterotopian experimentation, as well as being read alongside other arts and other authors of various national and linguistic backgrounds. This wide-ranging collection is the first monograph on Tokarczuk in English.

Comparative Perspectives

Olga Tokarczuk

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Między słowem a ciałem

Mirosław Gołuński

Literackie drogi wobec mitu

Lidia Wiśniewska

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