Article 2023
Authors / editors: Marta Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The author analyzes the connections between Miłosz's poetry and his translation work based on his translations and interpretations of the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Chinese poets, especially the poem “Another Spring” by Tu Fu. The subject of particular interest is Miłosz's vis…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2023.14-11 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Monograph 2023
Authors / editors: Marek Skwara
Published in: Rozprawy i Studia
Electronic version of the publication available under CC BY-SA 4.0 license after 12 months from the date of release: February 2024
DOI: 10.18276/978-83-7972-634-9 · ISBN: 978-83-7972-633-2 · ISSN: 0860-2751
Article 2022
Authors / editors: Tadeusz Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The presented text consists of two parts. The first is a review of Janina Gesche’s book devoted to the German-speaking winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Gesche not only meticulously reconstructed the activities of the Swedish Aca…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2022.13-16 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2021
Authors / editors: Marek Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The subject of the article is an attempt to describe great popularity of one of the important metaphors of the Enlightenment discourse - the spring. Starting from the treatise by Julien Offray de La Mettrie Man-Machine, the author classifies and analyzes the material collected fr…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2021.12-10 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2019
Authors / editors: Tadeusz Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The article discusses the volume Zbigniew Herbert und Österreich edited by Przemysław Chojnowski and devoted to Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) and his presence in the Austrian culture. The author discusses selected phenomena connected with Herbert’s reception studies in…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2019.10-16 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2017
Authors / editors: Marta Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The poem “Inscription,” which for the first time opened the 1867 Leaves with the dominant image of “ONE’S-SELF,” has become one of the most prominent of Whitman’s poems in the Polish rewritings of Leaves of Grass. Although only the final version of the poem (1871) has been transl…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2017.8-05 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2015
Authors / editors: Marta Anna Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
In this article I should like to explain how I plan to work on a one-volume English-language history of Polish literature that is supposed to address both foreign and Polish readers. While foreign readers should acquire some perspective on one of the relatively unknown European l…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2015.6-19 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2014
Authors / editors: Tadeusz Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The paper is devoted to Josephus Flavius, a Jewish-Roman historian and amediator
between Jewish and Roman culture, as he appears in Lion Feuchtwanger’s “Josephus
Trilogy” (1932–1942). The intercultural role of the ancient writer is discussed on two
planes: with regard to his o…
ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2013
Authors / editors: Marta Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The text examines the Polish reception of Whitman’s “barbaric yawp,” beginning
with pre-translational intertextual references made by the influential Polish poet Julian
Tuwim (“Poezja,” 1921). Subsequently, the version of the “barbaric yawp” line from
the introduction to the s…
ISSN: 2081-8718
Article 2013
Authors / editors: Marta Skwara
Published in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
Miłosz’s recently discovered letters to Paul Engle, the director of The Iowa Writing
Program at the University of Iowa, give an impulse to a more comprehensive discussion
on Miłosz’s literary tastes and literary opinions expressed both in his private and public
writings. Havin…
ISSN: 2081-8718