Contemporary Jewish writing in Poland : an anthology
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Contemporary Jewish writing in Poland : an anthology
（Jewish writing in the contemporary world）
University of Nebraska Press, c2001
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- : pbk.
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: cloth ISBN 9780803237216
Description
Devoted to collecting the finest Jewish writing from around the world, the Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World series consists of anthologies, by country, that are designed to present to the English-speaking world authors and works deserving international consideration. As a series, the books permit a broad examination of the international crosscurrents in Jewish thought and culture. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland brings together the works of a broad range of modern Jewish writers, most of whom remained in Poland after the Second World War. Although the Nazi genocide wiped out nearly all of the Jewish population in the country, the aftermath of the war has not stifled Jewish writing in Poland but has given it a different direction. A complex body of literature describes Jewish life before the war, documents the Holocaust, and wrestles with its legacy-particularly the difficulties of living in a country where it occurred.
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Julian StryjkowskiStanislaw WygodzkiAdolf RudnickiArtur SandauerZofia GrzesiakLeo LipskiIda FinkStanislaw BenskiBogdan WojdowskiHenryk GrynbergHanna KrallContibutors: Antoni Slonimski Contents:PrefaceIntroduction by Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska and Antony PolonskyJulian Stryjkowski (1905-96)excerpts from Voices in the Darknessexcerpt from Judas Maccabeus: AfterwordStanislaw Wygodzki (1907-91)Blessed Be the Hands ...selected poems from A Memoir of Loveselected poems from PartingAdolf Rudnicki (1912-92)excerpt from The Dead Sea and the Living Sea: AscensionArtur Sandauer (1913-89)Death of a LiberalZofia Grzesiak (1914-)MarriageLeo Lipski (1917-)Roe Deer's BrotherThe WadiIda Fink (1921-)A Scrap of Time*****A DogNight of SurrenderThe Tenth ManTracesStanislaw Benski (1922-88)A Strange CountryMissing PiecesBogdan Wojdowski (1930-94)excerpt from Bread for the DepartedA Little Person, a Songless Bird, a Cage, and the WorldHenryk Grynberg (1936-)Fatherlandselected poems from Antinostalgiaselected poems from Verses from Americaselected poems from Among the Absentselected poems from A Monument on the Potomacselected poems from I Draw in MemoryHanna Krall (1937-)Briefly NowThe Dybbuk [Fragments]The ArmchairAntoni Slonimski (1896-1976)excerpt from How It Really HappenedGlossaryAcknowledgments
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: pbk. ISBN 9780803287679
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Self-Same Songs constitutes a major contribution to the growing literary study of autobiography. Using a range of authors, including Homer, Edward Gibbon, Benjamin Franklin, Somerset Maugham, Franz Kafka, and Eugene Delacroix, Roger J. Porter offers a broad-based examination of the autobiography and the varied techniques used by its practitioners over time. In a style that is both graceful and erudite, Porter focuses on the diverse motivations and rhetorical functions that the act of self-writing serves for particular writers. He reflects on the texts not only as an exploration of self-identity but also as the writers' attempts to modify the life in the act of writing about it. Then, stepping out of his critical role, Porter ends each chapter with an autobiographical discussion of his professional and personal engagement with the autobiographer under discussion, creating an intriguing and absorbing literary autobiography within the critical text.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- IntroductionAutobiography and Exile1. The Singer in the Song: Autobiography in The Odyssey2. The Pleasures of Nostos: Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, MemoryAutobiography as Defense3. Filling Up the Silent Vacancy: Edward Gibbon's Autobiography4. Unspeakable Practices, Writable Acts: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography5. The Sorrows of Autobiography: Somerset Maugham's The Summing Up6. Redemptive Evasions: Edwin Muir's The Story and the FableAutobiography as Self-Effacement7. Autobiographical Writing as Death Weapon: Thomas Bernhard's Gathering Evidence and Franz Kafka's Letter to His Father8. Figuration and Disfigurement: Herculine Barbin's Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite9. Annulled Selves: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison's An Accidental Autobiography and Michel Leiris's Biffures Autobiographical Posturing10. Romantic Posing: The Life and Death Writing of Benjamin Robert Haydon11. "A Serpent in the Coils of a Pythoness": Self-Dramatization in Eugene Delacroix's JournalSelf as Other, the Other as Self12. Conflict and Incorporation: Edmund Gosse's Father and Son13. My Mother and Myself: Edward Dahlberg's Because I Was Flesh14. Self and Other Is One Flesh: Double Voicing in Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood, Ronald Fraser's In Search of a Past, and Howard and Arthur Waskow's Becoming BrothersEpilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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