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Modernist trends in twentieth-century Polish fiction

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    Stanisław Eile.
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    Eile, Stanisław Author

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    English
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    Introduction: Modernism, postmodernism and Polish fiction. - The origins of modernist fiction: The evolution of Polish fiction in the XIX century and modernity [ Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Eliza Orzeszkowa]. Bolesław Prus and his "Lalka". The lyrical mood of early modernism (I) [Karol Irzykowski, Maria Komornicka, Stefan Żeromski, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Stanisław Brzozowski]. The lyrical mood early modrnism (II) [Wacław Berent, Tadeusz Miciński, Władysław Stanisław Reymont]. - Between traditionalism and avnt-garde. The interwar period: The author reintroduced: realism, psychologisme, inverted narrative [Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Zofia Nałkowska, Tadeusz Breza, Maria Dąbrowska, Emil Zegadłowicz, Maria Kuncewiczowa, Michał Choromański]. Demiurges perplexed: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and Bruno Schulz. Clown turned bard: Witold Gombrowicz. - Fiction at the crossroads. From world war II to recent times: Modernity versus ideology [m.in.: Jerzy Andrzejewski, Marek Hłasko, Andrzej Kijowski, Witold Gombrowicz, Leopold Buczkowski]. On the borderlines of fiction: Borowski - Białoszewski - Konwicki. From reality under scrutiny to reality under question (I) [Teodor Parnicki, Włodzimierz Odojewski, Andrzej Kuśniewicz, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Stanisław Czycz]. From reality under scrutiny to reality under question (II) [Wilhelm Mach, Teodor Parnicki, Andrzej Kuśniewicz, Stanisław Lem, Tadeusz Konwicki, Paweł Huelle].


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