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The per­sona of Czes­law Milosz: autho­r­i­al poet­ics, crit­i­cal debates, recep­tion games
The Per­sona of Czes­law Milosz con­sid­ers the poet­ry of Milosz in the inno­v­a­tive light of world lit­er­a­ture and com­par­a­tive lit­er­ary stud­ies. The author employs crit­i­cal debates about Milosz in Amer­i­can and Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture to reshape the image of his recep­tion. The book mas­ter­ful­ly elab­o­rates Milosz’s poet­ics of per­spec­tivism with a new method of analy­sis based on the cat­e­go­ry of autho­r­i­al persona—between recep­tion, poet­ics, and close-reading—separate from the lit­er­ary per­sona. Each chap­ter encap­su­lates intro­duc­to­ry infor­ma­tion about Pol­ish lit­er­a­ture and moves beyond the hori­zon of West­ern expec­ta­tions about Cen­tral Euro­pean writ­ers. Milosz’s most dis­cussed poems reveal new provoca­tive pow­er in the con­text of T. S. Eliot, Walt Whit­man, William Blake, and Friedrich Niet­zsche.
To date, no work com­pre­hen­sive­ly exam­ines Milosz’s self-pro­claimed con­tra­dic­to­ry nature and the nomadic qual­i­ty of his works. As a result, schol­ar­ship remains scat­tered in diverse areas of inter­est, mov­ing Milosz to the mar­gins of world lit­er­a­ture, instead of cher­ish­ing the diver­si­ty of per­spec­tives he cham­pi­oned, among oth­er places, in his Nobel Lec­ture. With­out prop­er­ly appre­ci­at­ing the poet­ics of con­tra­dic­tion pro­posed by Milosz and a crit­i­cal analy­sis of his process of self-sit­u­a­tion, we nar­row his impact on lit­er­a­ture only to Pol­ish poet­ry, effec­tive­ly allow­ing for a pet­ri­fi­ca­tion of his inno­v­a­tive meth­ods. The Per­sona of Czes­law Milosz reme­dies this gap by reveal­ing that, in con­trast to Pol­ish and Amer­i­can lit­er­ary recep­tion, Milosz was an eccen­tric eulo­gist of the con­cept of a mul­ti-per­spec­tivist per­sona. Through close exam­i­na­tions of Milosz’s poet­ry, we learn that he devel­ops a method of oscil­lat­ing between ideas in search of last­ing sym­bols com­mon to all, begin­ning unfail­ing­ly with his cur­rent per­spec­tive. After all, Milosz per­sis­tent­ly placed him­self out­side of the con­sen­sus and maneu­vered the sub­ject mat­ter of his works to such an extent that his works became his phi­los­o­phy of lit­er­a­ture and the way of life.
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Lin­guis­tic, lin­guo-styl­is­tic and nar­ra­to­log­i­cal aspects of ear­ly Mon­tene­grin short sto­ries
The book exam­ines lin­go-styl­is­tic and nar­ra­to­log­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics of Mon­tene­grin short sto­ries in the cru­cial peri­od of 19th and ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry lan­guage reform. The sel­dom analysed works of four­teen authors from this peri­od are approached from the ortho­graph­i­cal, phono­log­i­cal, mor­pho­log­i­cal, syn­taxic, lex­i­cal and phrase­o­log­i­cal angles in order to pro­vide a com­pre­hen­sive overview of the inter­play between the alter­nat­ing lin­guis­tic stan­dards. The prin­ci­pal intent is not only to accen­tu­ate the so-far neglect­ed con­tri­bu­tion of Mon­tene­grin writ­ers to South-Slav­ic lin­guis­tic her­itage in gen­er­al, but also to facil­i­tate the under­stand­ing of the inter­ac­tion between the folk dialec­ti­cal base and the emerg­ing lin­guis­tic and lit­er­ary ten­den­cies of the age.
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