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Leśmian Internationally: Contextual Relations

A Comparative Study

Żaneta Nalewajk author Klara Naszkowska translator Jarosław Fazan editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:29th May '20

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This book shows the literary legacy of Bolesław Leśmian, the great Polish writer, as engaged in a dialogue with the tradition, and forged on the crossroads of literatures, and epochs. Exploring American, French and Russian contexts (Poe’s writing, Baudelaire’s oeuvre, Balmont’s texts, the symbolist style, the bylinna tradition), highlighting the correspondences between Leśmian and the romantics (Pushkin, Gogol) as well as the modernists (Jesienin, Gorodetsky) and connecting his work to Ukrainian culture through the evocation of old Slavic folklore, the book showcases Leśmian’s work as an example of interliterary and inter-cultural transfer of aesthetics, styles, genres and motifs. A crucial outcome of this research is the codifying of a contextual analysis as a method of comparative studies.

ISBN: 9783631820162

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 519g

348 pages

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