1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458150603321

Autore

Loewenstein David

Titolo

Milton, Paradise lost / / David Loewenstein [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14870-7

1-283-32914-X

0-511-16541-2

9786613329141

0-511-81128-4

0-511-16605-2

0-511-16410-6

0-511-56670-0

0-511-16490-4

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 136 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Landmarks of world literature

Disciplina

821/.4

Soggetti

Epic poetry, English - History and criticism

Fall of man in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.130-136).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and note on abbreviations; The chronology of events in Paradise Lost; Chapter 1 Paradise Lost in Milton's career and age; Chapter 2 Interpreting Paradise Lost; Chapter 3 The literary after-life of Paradise Lost; Guide to further reading

Sommario/riassunto

This volume offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature. This guide highlights Milton's imaginative daring as he boldly revises the epic tradition, brilliantly elaborates upon Genesis, and shapes his ambitious narrative in order to retell the story of the Fall. The book considers the heretical dimensions of Paradise Lost and its theology, while situating Milton's great poem in its literary, religious, and political contexts. A concluding chapter addresses the influence of Milton's sublime poem as a source of creative inspiration for later writers, from the Restoration to the



Romantics. Finally, the volume offers an extremely useful and updated guide to further reading, which students will find invaluable.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956851403321

Autore

Anders Jaroslaw <1950->

Titolo

Between fire and sleep : essays on modern Polish poetry and prose / / Jaroslaw Anders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

9786612437533

9781282437531

1282437534

9780300155310

030015531X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xx, 201 p.))

Classificazione

18.54

Disciplina

891.8/5090073

Soggetti

Polish literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bruno Schulz : the prisoner of myth -- Witold Gombrowicz : the transforming self -- Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz : modernism to madness -- Czeslaw Milosz : a testament of exile -- Zbigniew Herbert : the darkness of Mr. Cogito -- Wislawa Szymborska : the power of preserving -- Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski : sleepless in Naples -- Tadeusz Konwicki : Polish endgame -- Adam Zagajewski : to hear the sound of everything.

Sommario/riassunto

Twentieth-century Polish literature is often said to be a "witness to history," a narrative of the historical and political disasters that visited the nation. In this insightful book, Jaroslaw Anders examines Poland's modern poetry and fiction and explains that the best Polish writing of the period 1918-1989 was much more than testimony. Rather, it constantly transformed historical experience into metaphysical reflection, a philosophical or religious exploration of human existence. Anders analyzes and contextualizes the work of nine modern Polish



writers. These include the "three madmen" of the interwar period-Schulz, Gombrowicz, and Witkiewicz, whom he calls the fathers of Polish modernist prose; the great poets of the war generation-Milosz, Herbert, and Szymborska; Herling-Grudzinski and Konwicki, with their dark philosophical subtexts; and the mystical-ecstatic poet Zagajewski. A collection of essays representing Anders's thinking over several decades, Between Fire and Sleep offers a fresh understanding of modern Polish literature and cultural identity.