The Persona of Czes aw Mi osz

The book considers the poetry of Czesaw Miosz in the light of world literature and comparative literary studies. It employs critical debates about his reception in American literature, English literature, and Polish literature. It elaborates his poetics of perspectivism in the context of authorial persona and Eliot, Whitman, Blake, and Nietzsche.

The Persona of Czesaw Miosz considers the poetry of Miosz in the innovative light of world literature and comparative literary studies. The author employs critical debates about Miosz in American and English literature to reshape the image of his reception. The book masterfully elaborates Miosz's poetics of perspectivism with a new method of analysis based on the category of authorial personabetween reception, poetics, and close-readingseparate from the literary persona. Each chapter encapsulates introductory information about Polish literature and moves beyond the horizon of Western expectations about Central European writers. Miosz's most discussed poems reveal new provocative power in the context of T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, William Blake, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

To date, no work comprehensively examines Miosz's self-proclaimed contradictory nature and the nomadic quality of his works. As a result, scholarship remains scattered in diverse areas of interest, moving Miosz to the margins of world literature, instead of cherishing the diversity of perspectives he championed, among other places, in his Nobel Lecture. Without properly appreciating the poetics of contradiction proposed by Miosz and a critical analysis of his process of self-situation, we narrow his impact on literature only to Polish poetry, effectively allowing for a petrification of his innovative methods. The Persona of Czesaw Miosz remedies this gap by revealing that, in contrast to Polish and American literary reception, Miosz was an eccentric eulogist of the concept of a multi-perspectivist persona. Through close examinations of Miosz's poetry, we learn that he develops a method of oscillating between ideas in search of lasting symbols common to all, beginning unfailingly with his current perspective. After all, Miosz persistently placed himself outside of the consensus and maneuvered the subject matter of his works to such an extent that his works became his philosophy of literature and the way of life.

Auteur

Miko aj Golubiewski (* 1985 Gdäsk, Poland) studied at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the University of Warsaw, taught at Potsdam University. He published academic collections about modernity in literature, Rainer Maria Rilke, and intercultural dialogue. The latter, A Handbook of Dialogue: Trust and Identity was firstly published in English, then translated into Polish and Russian as part of Golubiewski s work with the Borderland Foundations, which takes care of Czes aw Mi osz manor and heritage in Sejny. Currently Golubiewski teaches at the University of Warsaw about the works of Czes aw Mi osz and the Polish School of Poetry in the USA.

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The Persona of Czes aw Mi osz considers the poetry of Mi osz in the innovative light of world literature and comparative literary studies. The author employs critical debates about Mi osz in American and English literature to reshape the image of his reception. The book masterfully elaborates Mi osz s poetics of perspectivism with a new method of analysis based on the category of authorial personäbetween reception, poetics, and close-reading separate from the literary persona. Each chapter encapsulates introductory information about Polish literature and moves beyond the horizon of Western expectations about Central European writers. Mi osz s most discussed poems reveal new provocative power in the context of T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, William Blake, and Friedrich Nietzsche. To date, no work comprehensively examines Mi osz s self-proclaimed contradictory nature and the nomadic quality of his works. As a result, scholarship remains scattered in diverse areas of interest, moving Mi osz to the margins of world literature, instead of cherishing the diversity of perspectives he championed, among other places, in his Nobel Lecture. Without properly appreciating the poetics of contradiction proposed by Mi osz and a critical analysis of his process of self-situation, we narrow his impact on literature only to Polish poetry, effectively allowing for a petrification of his innovative methods. The Persona of Czes aw Mi osz remedies this gap by revealing that, in contrast to Polish and American literary reception, Mi osz was an eccentric eulogist of the concept of a multi-perspectivist persona. Through close examinations of Mi osz s poetry, we learn that he develops a method of oscillating between ideas in search of lasting symbols common to all, beginning unfailingly with his current perspective. After all, Mi osz persistently placed himself outside of the consensus and maneuvered the subject matter of his works to such an extent that his works became his philosophy of literature and the way of life.

Contenu

Czesaw Miosz World literature Comparative literature Reception studies Reception American literature English literature Polish literature Poetics Perspectivism Authorial persona Literary persona Criticism Translation studies Self-translation Self-fashioning Self-definition Posture litteraire T.S. Eliot Walt Whitman William Blake Friedrich Nietzsche