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Record Nr.

UNISA996309237803316

Autore

Herlth Jens

Titolo

Stanisław Brzozowski and the migration of ideas : transnational perspectives on the intellectual field in twentieth-century Poland and beyond / / Jens Herlth, Edward M. Świderski, editors ; with assistance by Dorota Kozicka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2019

Bielefeld : , : Transcript, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

3-8376-4641-6

3-8394-4641-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Collana

Lettre (Transcript (Firm))

Classificazione

KP 2225

Disciplina

800

Soggetti

Polish prose literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Europe Intellectual life

Poland Intellectual life 20th century

Poland Intellectual life 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Table of Contents    5  On Brzozowski's Presence and Absence in Poland and Beyond    7  "Sounding out idols": Brzozowski and Strindberg as Nietzsche Readers    23  "Ibsen! Oh, let us not invoke this name in vain!" Brzozowski's Ibsen Not-quite-read    39  Stanisaw Brzozowski and Die Neue Zeit    57  Les Déracinés: Brzozowski and Barrès    77  The Cult of Will and Power: Did Brzozowski Inspire Ukrainian Nationalism?    107  Brzozowski and Cioran: The Legend of Young Poland and The Transformation of Romania    133  Brzozowski and the Italians    139  Brzozowski and Rorty: Coping with the Contingent Self    159  Stanisaw Brzozowski and Romantic Revision (Meyer Howard Abrams, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom): Prolegomena    187  Brzozowski as Precursor to Contemporary Studies on Cyprian Norwid's Legacy    209  Brzozowskianism: The Trouble with the "Great" Brzozowski and His Followers    237  "actually speaking, this man



converted me": Jerzy Liebert, Brzozowski, and the Question of a Modern Religous Poetry    249  Stanisaw Brzozowski as Harbinger and Enabler of Modern Literary Theory in Poland and the West    273  The Stalinist Reception of Stanisaw Brzozowski's Philosophy: The Case of Pawe Hoffman    303  Brzozowski and the Question of Engagement: On a Different Concept of the Autonomy of Art    321  Brzozowski or Plots of the Future    339  Epilogue    351  Contributors    359

Sommario/riassunto

As a writer, critic, and philosopher, Stanislaw Brzozowski (1878-1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. He absorbed virtually all topical intellectual trends of his time, adapting them for the needs of what he saw as his primary mission: the modernization of Polish culture. The essays of the volume reassess and contextualize Brzozowski's writings from a distinctly transnational vantage point. They shed light on often surprising and hitherto underrated affinities between Brzozowski and intellectual figures and movements in Eastern and Western Europe. Furthermore, they explore the presence of his ideas in twentieth-century century literary criticism and theory.