Wanderers across language : exile in Irish and Polish literature of the twentieth century /
Exile has become a potent symbol of Polish and Irish cultures. Historical, political and cultural predicaments of both countries have branded them as diasporic nations: but, in Adorno's dictum, for an exile writing becomes home. Olszewska offers a multifaceted picture of the figure of exile in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Legenda,
2007
London : 2007 |
| Series: | Studies in comparative literature (Oxford, England) ;
12 Studies in comparative literature (Oxford, England) 12 |
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Table of Contents:
- List of Quotations used as Epigraphs xi
- 1 Definitions and Representations of Exile 7
- Part I The Origins 7
- Part II History Alienates, Politics Banishes 17
- Part III The Experience 40
- 2 Exile as Punishment and Liberation: The Works of Kazimierz Brandys and Brian Moore 56
- 3 Moral, Cultural and Communal Estrangement in the Fiction of Marek Hlasko and Desmond Hogan 83
- 4 Intellectual Dissidence in the Poetry of Stanislaw Baranczak, Adam Zagajewski and Paul Muldoon 109