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Informationen zum Autor Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was born in Lithuania and was Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Klappentext A survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Zusammenfassung A survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to Second Edition Introduction I. The Middle Ages BACKGROUND INFORMATION LITERATURE IN LATIN LITERATURE IN POLISH II. The Fifteenth Century: The Late Middle Ages BACKGROUND INFORMATION LITERATURE IN LATIN-PROSE LITERATURE IN POLISH Poetry Prose III. Humanism and Reformation: The Sixteenth Century and the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century BACKGROUND INFORMATION LITERATURE IN LATIN Prose Poetry LITERATURE IN POLISH The New Book Market Encyclopedias and Picturesque Reports The History of Polish .(iterature Lukasz Gornicki Mikolaj Rej Jan Kochanowski Other Lyric Poets Descriptive and Satirical Poetry Polemical Prose The Theater WRITINGS IN OTHER LANGUAGES IV. The Seventeenth Century: Counter Reformation and the Baroque BACKGROUND INFORMATION LITERATURE IN LATIN LITERATURE IN POLISH Lyric Poetry of the First Half of the Seventeenth Century Poets of Baroque Conceits Moralistic and Satiric Poetry Sarmatian Epic Poetry Prose The Theater V. The First Half of the Eighteenth Century- The "Saxon Night" BACKGROUND INFORMATION POETRY THE PRECURSORS OF CHANGE VI. The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century- The Enlightenment BACKGROUND INFORMATION THE THEATER MEN OF LETTERS SENTIMENTAL POETS THE REFORMERS THE INCREDIBLE POTOCKI VII. Romanticism BACKGROUND INFORMATION CLASSICISM AND PRE-ROMANTICISM ADAM MICKIEWICZ JULIUSZ SLOWACKI ZYGMUNT KRASINSKI THE UKRAINIAN SCHOOL ALEKSANDER FREDRO PROSE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD HISTORIANS AND PHILOSOPHERS STORY OF A FAMILY CYPRIAN NORWID VIII. Positivism BACKGROUND INFORMATION THE POSITIVISTS THE KRAKOW SCHOOL NATURALISM BOLESLAW PRUS ELIZA ORZESZKOW HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ OTHER PROSE WRITERS POETRY IX. Young Poland BACKGROUND INFORMATION THE INITIATORS POETRY Leopold Staff Boleslaw Le§mian THE THEATER Stanislaw Wyspiaiiski Naturalistic and Psychological Drama A NEW OPPOSITION TO THE "MODERNA" IN THE SATIRICAL VEIN NOVELISTS Stefan Zeromski Wladyslaw Reymont Wadaw Berent CRITICISM AND PHILOSOPHY Stanislaw Brzozowski X. Independent Poland: 1918-1939 BACKGROUND INFORMATION POETRY "Skamander" Revolutionary Poets The First Vanguard Toward the Second Vanguard THE THEATER Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz THE NOVEL AND THE SHORT STORY Witold Gombrowicz THE ESSAY AND INTERMEDIARY GENRES XI. World War II and the First Twenty Years of People's Poland BACKGROUND INFORMATION POSTWAR LITERATURE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS Poetry Prose The Theater The Essay and Intermediary Genres Emigre Literature Epilogue On Polish Versification Selected Bibliography Index...
