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Wieslaw Krajka
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 144 x 31. Weight in Grams: 664.
The volume opens with an appreciation of Conrad's Polishness by Jerzy Buzek, The President of the European Parliament. Its first section provides new illuminations of Polishness in Conrad's personality and oeuvre: from the szlachta cultural heritage of his ancestors and Polish contextualizations of "Prince Roman" through some aspects of the writer's identity and references to Polish culture and autobiographical elements in his works to their Polish translations and reception. The Eastern-Western frame for these studies is provided by insights into some relations of his literary works to Russian literature (Dostoevsky, Turgenev) and their reception in Ukraine and Germany. The essays ... Read more
The volume opens with an appreciation of Conrad's Polishness by Jerzy Buzek, The President of the European Parliament. Its first section provides new illuminations of Polishness in Conrad's personality and oeuvre: from the szlachta cultural heritage of his ancestors and Polish contextualizations of "Prince Roman" through some aspects of the writer's identity and references to Polish culture and autobiographical elements in his works to their Polish translations and reception. The Eastern-Western frame for these studies is provided by insights into some relations of his literary works to Russian literature (Dostoevsky, Turgenev) and their reception in Ukraine and Germany. The essays ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
East European Monographs
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Bradenton, United States
ISBN
9780880337038
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V9780880337038
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About Wieslaw Krajka
Wieslaw Krajka is a professor in the English Department at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. His research covers mainly English nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature (especially Joseph Conrad), literary theory, and comparative literature. He is editor the Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives and the the principal organizer of five international Conrad conferences at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin.
Reviews for From From Szlachta Culture to the XXI Century, Between East and West. New Essays on Joseph Conrad's Polishness: Conrad: Eastern and Western ... Perspectives: East European Monographs 796)
Another exciting contribution to Conrad Studies, providing a powerful analysis of Polish and East Central European contexts in Conrad’s biography, together with interpretation of archival sources, studies in literary history, comparative literary criticism, and the reception of Conrad’s works in Poland, Ukraine, and Germany, by scholars from Europe and elsewhere.
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