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Join us for a Special Roundtable Discussion around the recently published Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature (September 2021). We are joined by one of the book’s editors, Dr Stanley Bill (Cambridge), as well as by Professor Tamara Trojanowska (Toronto), the editor of Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 (2018), and Dr Karolina Wątroba (Oxford). The discussion will be moderated by Ola Sidorkiewicz (Oxford).
The Companion is the result of a collaborative effort of thirty-three scholars working with Polish literature across seventeen countries. It considers Polish literature in a comparative light, focusing its inquiry on the dialogic relationship of Polish literary works with other national literatures, including through the perspectives of influence, reception, borrowing, and transmission.
As the Companion’s editors state in the introduction, “there is no longer any justification for treating the concepts of 'national literature' and 'world literature' as opposing categories” (4). From the earliest texts written in Polish to the recent works by the 2018 Polish Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, Olga Tokarczuk, The Routledge World Companion places Polish literary texts on the world map of literature, emphasising its intercultural and multilingual paths of transmission.
During the event, we will discuss the different modes of writing Polish literary history, both for Polish and international audiences, the place and role of semi-peripheral literatures in the canon of world literature, and the importance of a shift in writing Polish literary history for the understanding of Poland’s past, present, and future.
The discussion will be followed by a Q&A.
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