Wislawa Szymborska
A Stockholm Conference, May 23-34, 2003
Konferenser No. 60

Edited by Leonard Neuger & Rikard Wennerholm
October 2006
Kungl. Vitterhets Historie, Stockholm
Distributed by
ISBN: 917402356X
217 pages, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2"
$72.50 Paper Original


The articles in this collection are dedicated to the poetry of Wislawa Szyborska. The contributors are outstanding scholars and translators from Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Norway, and the USA, and all provide analyses of her poetry from many perspectives, including theoretical and philosophical standpoints.

Some papers include:
Remarks on the Translations.
Modernism in Poland.
The Poetic Universe.
Subject & Personality.
Gendered Sensibilities.
Our Need for Certainty.
Negative Anthropology.
Dialogue with the Modern Reader.
Compositional Paradoxes.
Ontological Barriers.

List of Authors.


Poetry
Literary Criticism

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