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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Ten Contemporary Polish Polish Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Ordon
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book 10 Contemporary Polish Stories written by Edmund Ordon and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1974 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander M. Schenker
Publisher : New Haven, Yale U. P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fifteen Modern Polish Short Stories written by Alexander M. Schenker and published by New Haven, Yale U. P. This book was released on 1970 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Schenker now supplements his "Beginning Polish" with a selection of fifteen unabridged, annotated short stories, each by a different author, to be used in beginning and intermediate college courses in Polish. All of the stories are set in contemporary Poland, and are by authors generally considered to be among the most significant and interesting in post-World War II Poland. Each selection is preceded by an English-language biography and literary appreciation of the author. Problems that might be encountered by the reader-whether of a linguistic or cultural nature-are explained in footnotes, and a glossary at the end of the book contains all of the words occuring in the stories. There is no other reader dealing exclusively with twentieth-century Polish prose."This collection of modern (post-war) Polish short stories representing fifteen authors, may be used, as the author suggests in the introduction, as a companion volume to his "Beginning Polish," and is intended for the use of first and second year students of the Polish language."-Slavonic and East European Review
Author : Piotr Florczyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501387111
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Polish Literature as World Literature written by Piotr Florczyk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully curated collection consists of 16 chapters by leading Polish and world literature scholars from the United States, Canada, Italy, and, of course, Poland. An historical approach gives readers a panoramic view of Polish authors and their explicit or implicit contributions to world literature. Indeed, the volume shows how Polish authors, from Jan Kochanowski in the 16th century to the 2018 Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, have engaged with their foreign counterparts and other traditions, active participants in the global literary network and the conversations of their day. The volume features views of Polish literature and culture within theories of world literature and literary systems, with a particular attention paid to the resurgence of the idea of the physical book as a cultural artifact. This perspective is especially important since so much of today's global literary output stems from Anglophone perceptions of what constitutes literary quality and tastes. The collection also sheds light on specific issues pertaining to Poland, such as the idea of Polishness, and global phenomena, including social and economic advancement as well as ecological degradation. Some of the authors discussed, like the Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz or the 1980 Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, were renowned far beyond the borders of their country, while others, like the contemporary travel writer and novelist Andrzej Stasiuk, embrace regionalism, seeing as they do in their immediate surroundings a synecdoche of the world at large. Nevertheless, the picture of Polish literature and Polish authors that emerges from these articles is that of a diverse, cosmopolitan cohort engaged in a mutually rewarding relationship with what the late French critic Pascale Casanova has called “the world republic of letters.”
Author : Joseph S. Czestochowski
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486237800
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (378 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Polish Posters in Full Color written by Joseph S. Czestochowski and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditions of Polish graphic art and the influences of folk culture, nationalism, and European art movements are evidenced in a collection of posters created by Polish artists from 1961 to 1977
Author : Czeslaw Milosz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520044777
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The History of Polish Literature, Updated Edition written by Czeslaw Milosz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-10-24 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Czeslaw Milosz updated this edition in 1983 and added an epilogue to bring the discussion up to date.
Author : Hans-Joachim Schauss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Polish Folk Artists written by Hans-Joachim Schauss and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an unusual book - a book written by a connoisseur and collector of Polish folk art. For many years Hans-Joachim Schauss has been a frequent visitor to Poland, making the acquaintanceship - off the beaten track of tourists attractions - of Polish folk artists who enjoy a standing far beyond the borders of their homeland. He is on very friendly terms with many of them and presents the harvest of these numerous meetings in the shape of this extremely personal book, introducing us to his friends, the dedicated wood-carvers, potters, ceramists and painters describing in brief impressions where and how they live. After out-lining their approach to their art he lets them speak for themselves with tape recordings of what they revealed in the course of their talks with him. They speak about the key to their art, their creative ideas and their craft techniques. The book introduces twenty-four Polish folk artists. Most of them are of peasant stock and all of them are amateur artists. Each embodies an individual with his own idiom. The portraits and reproductions of their work in conjunction with the texts furnish an insight into the manifold aspects and significance of this branch of Polish culture whose equal hardly exists anywhere else.
Author : Michael Kandel
Publisher : Piasa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940962705
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (627 download)
Download or read book A Polish Book of Monsters written by Michael Kandel and published by Piasa Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Polish Book of Monsters contains five stories of speculative fiction edited and translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel, award-winning translator of the fiction of Stanislaw Lem. From dystopian science fiction to fabled fantasy, these dark tales grip us through the authors' ability to create utterly convincing alien worlds that nonetheless reflect our own.
Author : Oscar E. Swan
Publisher : Slavica Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Contemporary Polish written by Oscar E. Swan and published by Slavica Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tamara Trojanowska
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442650184
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Being Poland written by Tamara Trojanowska and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland's cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland's modern and contemporary cultural practices, and challenges the narrative typically prescribed to Polish literature and film. Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century.
Author : Harvard University. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Widener Library Shelflist: Slavic history and literatures written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander M. Schenker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300013269
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Fifteen Modern Polish Short Stories written by Alexander M. Schenker and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Schenker now supplements his Beginning Polish with a selection of fifteen unabridged, annotated short stories, each by a different author, to be used in beginning and intermediate college courses in Polish. All of the stories, which were written within the last twenty-five years, are set in contemporary Poland, and are by authors generally considered to be among the most significant and interesting in post-World War II Poland. Each selection is preceded by an English-language biography and literary appreciation of the author. Problems that might be encountered by the reader – whether of a linguistic or cultural nature – are explained in footnotes, and a glossary at the end of the book contains all of the words occurring in the stories. There is no other reader dealing exclusively with twentieth-century Polish prose. Mr. Schenker is chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at Yale University.
Author : Anna Czekanowska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521300902
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Polish Folk Music written by Anna Czekanowska and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-07-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Polish folk music is especially enlightening as it reveals both the history and practice of a musical tradition and offers an illuminating view of a culture and its social activities. Within her study, Anna Czekanowska analyses the vocal and instrumental traditions of Polish folk music, tracing the background history, the influences of geography and politics, and the practice, often within contemporary society, of such social events as the harvest, the solstice and weddings. The function of folk culture within contemporary life, for both Polish and non-Polish inhabitants of the country, is also examined. Professor Czekanowska also discusses the birth of Polish ethno- musicology as a discipline and details some methodological aspects for research. This study contributes to a greater understanding and appreciation of Polish music and, in a wider aspect, of Slavonic culture. The book contains numerous illustrations of instruments and cultural events, music examples, maps, a discography and bibliography.
Author : Witold Gombrowicz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300145667
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Polish Memories written by Witold Gombrowicz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Witold Gombrowicz’s unique, idiosyncratic writings include a three-volume Diary, this voluminous document offers few facts about his early life in Poland before his books were banned there and he went into voluntary exile. Polish Memories—a series of autobiographical sketches Gombrowicz composed for Radio Free Europe during his years in Argentina in the late 1950s—fills the gap in our knowledge. Written in a straightforward way without his famous linguistic inventions, the book presents an engaging account of Gombrowicz’s childhood, youth, literary beginnings, and fellow writers in interwar Poland and reveals how these experiences and individuals shaped his seemingly outlandish concepts about the self, culture, art, and society. In addition, the book helps readers understand the numerous autobiographical allusions in his fiction and brings a new level of understanding and appreciation to his life and work.
Author : Sophie Hodorowicz Knab
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780781814515
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Polish Customs, Traditions & Folklore written by Sophie Hodorowicz Knab and published by . This book was released on 2024-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A richly detailed and well-informed month-by-month accounting of all the major Polish customs and traditions practiced over the centuries. Ms. Knab stirs and reawakens our ancestral memory." ―The Kosciuszko Foundation Newsletter Now in a paperback edition with illustrations, historical black and white photographs, and color photographs throughout the book! This unique, well-researched reference is arranged by month, showing the various occasions, feasts and holidays prominent in Polish culture―beginning with December it continues through Holy Week Customs, superstitions, beliefs and rituals associated with farming, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, midsummer, harvest festival, wedding rites, Name Days, birth and death. There is also a chapter on Polish pastimes and games for children. Many of the customs and traditions described in the book have been lost even in today's modern Poland. World wars, massive immigration, the loss of the oral tradition, urbanization and politics have changed the face of a once agrarian people and their way of life throughout the calendar year. The changes, however, have not been able to erase the memory of that way of life completely. Many communities of the Polish diaspora throughout the world still feel connected to Poland and choose to reenact harvest celebrations, reminding themselves of their ancestors' reverence for the grains and gifts of bread. The sharing of oplatek, the Christmas Eve wafer, and the words of love while doing so, continue to bind family and friends together. Although the purpose and meaning may have been lost and forgotten, the oczepiny ceremony (the unveiling) is still the mainstay of almost every wedding where the bride declares Polish heritage. This invaluable resource is perfect for anyone who claims Polish ancestry, diligently practicing that which they learned at their parents' and grandparents' knees. It is for families who wish to teach Polish heritage and customs to their children, and for anyone seeking to learn more about their Slavic roots.
Author : Brian Porter-Szücs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444332198
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Poland in the Modern World written by Brian Porter-Szücs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland in the Modern World presents a history of the country from the late nineteenth century to the present, incorporating new perspectives from social and cultural history and positioning it in a broad global context Challenges traditional accounts Poland that tend to focus on national, political history, emphasizing the country's 'exceptionalism'. Presents a lively, multi-dimensional story, balancing coverage of high politics with discussion of social, cultural and economic changes, and their effects on individuals’ daily lives. Explores both the regional diversity within Poland and the country’s place within Europe and the wider world. Provides a new interpretive framework for understanding key historical events in Poland’s modern history, including the experiences of World War II and the postwar communist era.
Author : Dorota Masłowska
Publisher : Black Cat
ISBN 13 : 0802170013
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Snow White and Russian Red written by Dorota Masłowska and published by Black Cat. This book was released on 2005 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorota Maslowska's audacious debut novel establishes her as a new young literary voice of international importance.
