24 articles in this issue
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Anna Krajewska
Editorial dedicated to the memory of Stanislaw Baranczak.
Joanna Gradziel-Wójcik
The article presents and interpretation of a Stanislaw Baranczak’s poem Lono przyrody [The Bosom of Nature], seldom discussed by specialists. This seemingly simple poem from the volume Ja wiem, ze to niesluszne [I Know It’s Not Right] (1977) elaborates on... see more
Piotr Bogalecki
The article provides an interpretation of Middle Ages, a poem from Stanislaw Baranczak’s debut publication Facial Corrections (1968). Focussing on the way that numerous examples of zeugma and syllepsis are used, the author argues that this poem, which was... see more
Dariusz Pawelec
This sketch shows the evolution in the way Stanislaw Baranczak’s poem has been interpreted. Initially, these interpretations focused on the lyrical hero and role of the poetic word, revealing their roots in the Romantic tradition, and on the classic probl... see more
Alina Swiesciak
The poetry of Stanislaw Baranczak, who himself was against historical avant-garde as a movement that abandoned ethical commitments, has quite a lot in common with avant-garde. Like other New Wave artists, his poetry can be read in the context of the neo-a... see more
Ewa Rajewska
The article discusses the immanent poetics of Elizabeth Bishop reconstructed the poet and critic Stanislaw Baranczak, the translator of the Polish selection of her 33 wiersze [33 Poems] (1995). The reconstruction produced by Baranczak highlights the resem... see more
Andrzej Skrendo
The article comprises sketches by Stanislaw Baranczak and Konstanty Jelenski on Czeslaw Milosz’s The Land of Ulro. By comparing these three texts, important features of the thought of each author are described. The main figure is, however, Stanislaw Baran... see more
Zbigniew Kopec
The analysis in this article focusses on two of Stanislaw Baranczak’s poems in the context of the writer’s biography, i.e. the fact that he was an intellectual, poet, translator and essayist, as well as an opposition activist and one of the co-founders of... see more
Piotr Sliwinski
The interpretation of Stanislaw Baranczak’s poem And it’s only that world of pain focuses on the depiction of pain and suffering, the relationship between the writer and reader’s experience, as well as the connection between the human being and nature und... see more
The article is an interpretation of the poem “Plakala w nocy, ale nie jej placz go zbudzil” (“She cried at night, but not her cries woke him”) written by Stanislaw Baranczak. The author focuses on description in this poem – dramatic in shape, philosophica... see more
Krzysztof Hoffmann
The text is an interpretation of Stanislaw Baranczak’s poem From the introduction to a phrasebook. The reading of the lyric reveals a basic organizing opposition, i.e. the dichotomy of “liquidity” (“shallowness”) and “depth”. The final parts of the interp... see more
Ryszard Przybylski
The poem Small talk conjures up a communicative situation in which the main character, a newcomer from Poland, answers conventional questions related to their country. Bearing in mind the fact that this poem is set during a military dictatorship, superfic... see more
Adam Poprawa
The last volume of poetry by Stanislaw Baranczak, titled Chirurgiczna precyzja (Surgical precision) features the poem Za szklem (Behind glass). It is an extremely ironic and ambiguous work. The interpretation provided in this paper points to the exception... see more
Agnieszka Czyzak
The main aim of the article is an interpretation of Stanislaw Baranczak’s poem Przywracanie porzadku (Restoration of order), written in Cambridge, USA, between December 1981 and July 1982. This composition may be analysed as a specific closure of one stag... see more
Marek Hendrykowski
Marek Hendrykowski’s article provides an analysis and interpretation of Baranczak’s well-known poem “Pierwsza piatka” [The First Five], whose main characters are the basketball legends of Boston Celtics, NBA champions on many occasions.
Lech Raczak
This text deals with the 1971 play Jednym tchem (In one breath), performed at the Theatre of the Eighth Day (Teatr Ósmego Dnia) and based on Stanislaw Baranczak’s poem. Lech Raczak outlines the methods used in the play, the characters, way of presenting a... see more
Dobrochna Dabert
The author presents the work of Stanislaw Baranczak published underground.
Roberto Galaverni
This article is of a comparative nature and attempts to contrast the poetic output of two Nobel prize-winners, i.e. Eugenio Montale and Wislawa Szymborska. The author uncovers numerous similarities especially between Montale’s late works and Szymborska’s ... see more
Giovanna Tomassucci
This article covers a particular form of Wislawa Szymborska conceptism, her Thought fugues, which turns the world’s elements upside down and deconstructs them, uncovering their antinomies. The described reality takes the form of a concatenation, it is ell... see more
Emiliano Ranocchi
A collection of articles published to mark the 20th anniversary of the Nobel Prize being awarded to the poetess. This post-conference collection of essays on Wislawa Szymborska is the outcome of an academic session and the first separate critical overview... see more
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