The Ghost of Shakespeare : Collected Essays

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One —On Poetry -- 1. Czesław Miłosz: The Ambivalent Landscape of Return -- 2. He Also Knew How to Be Gracious (Czesław Miłosz) -- 3. From Common Servant to Lot’s Wife (Wisława Szymborska) -- 4. Intellect Imbued with Clarity, Grace, and Humor Notes on Wisław...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One —On Poetry -- 1. Czesław Miłosz: The Ambivalent Landscape of Return -- 2. He Also Knew How to Be Gracious (Czesław Miłosz) -- 3. From Common Servant to Lot’s Wife (Wisława Szymborska) -- 4. Intellect Imbued with Clarity, Grace, and Humor Notes on Wisława Szymborska -- 5. The Ghost of Shakespeare in the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska -- 6. The Last Time We Saw Her . . . (Wisława Szymborska) -- 7. Apollo and Marsyas: A Tribute to Zbigniew Herbert -- 8. Poet of the Seventh Climate: Recurrent Images in the Poetry of Bronisław Przyłuski -- 9. A Canon of His Own (Vasyl Makhno) -- 10. Must Poetry Be Absolutely Modern? -- Part Two—On Polish Prose -- 11. Two Unknown Soldiers (Józef Wittlin) -- 12. Bruno Schulz: Mythmaker and Legend -- 13. The Lifelong Passion of Jerzy Ficowski -- 14. Jealousy, Sex, and Character: Michał Choromański and Otto Weininger -- 15. Narrative Strategies: The Case of Andrzej Bobkowski -- 16. Henryk Grynberg: His Quest for Artistic and Non-Artistic Truth -- 17. Finding the Way between Globalization and Decentralization: Polish Literature after 1989 -- Part Three—On Russian Symbolism -- 18. Three Great Romans in the Poetry of Valery Bryusov -- 19. The Contradictions of the Northern Pilgrim: Dmitry Merezhkovsky -- 20. The Quest for Pax Romana as a Quest for Peace of Mind: Vasily Komarovsky -- 21. The Scepter of the Far East and the Crown of the Third Rome: The Russo-Japanese War in the Mirror of Russian Poetry -- Part Four—On Writing and Exile -- 22. My Native Realm -- 23. My “Unprocessed” Holocaust -- 24. March Began in June: My “Processed” Trauma -- 25. The Price of Integrity -- 26. Cultural Diversity in the Workplace -- 27. Writing Polish in America -- 28. Identity and Difference: The Power of Language -- Afterword. Departures, Returns and Memory in the Collected Essays of Anna Frajlich -- Bibliography -- Selected Honors and Publications -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung