http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/polish-literature The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/sonnet-day <p>Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) is a towering figure in Central and East European literary history.  You'll find monuments to him in three national capitals--<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz_Monument,_Warsaw" title="Mickiewicz in Warszawa" target="_blank">Warsaw</a>, <a href="http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/mickiewicz/m.html" title="Mickiewicz in Minsk" target="_blank">Minsk</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz_Monument,_Vilnius" title="Mickiewicz in Vilnius" target="_blank">Vilnius</a>--as well as the Ukrainian city of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickiewicz_Square" title="Mickiewicz in Lviv" target="_blank">Lviv</a>.  In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz_Monument,_Krak%C3%B3w" title="Mickiewicz Monument in Krakow" target="_blank">Krakow</a>, he's <a href="http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypta_Wieszcz%C3%B3w_Narodowych_na_Wawelu" title="Mickiewicz tomb" target="_blank">buried </a>in the <a href="http://www.wawel.krakow.pl/en/" title="Wawel Castle" target="_blank">Wawel</a>, alongside Polish kings.  Haven't heard of him?  Me neither, not till long after I finished my Ph.D.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/sonnet-day">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/sonnet-day#comments Adam Mickiewicz Crimea Petrarchan sonnet Polish literature Polish poetry translation http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1520 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:12:03 -0700 Brian Reed 1520 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/neo-latin-ftw <p>I've recently returned from an American studies <a href="http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/transnationalpoetics/index.html" title="Bochum conference" target="_blank">conference on &quot;transnational poetics&quot; at Ruhr-University Bochum</a>.  Many of the papers were first-rate, but there was a recurrent problem, namely, a lack of certainty regarding the meaning or value of the word &quot;transnational.&quot; What differentiates a &quot;transnational&quot; approach to a literary topic from an &quot;international&quot; or &quot;comparative&quot; one?</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/neo-latin-ftw">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/neo-latin-ftw#comments British poetry Henry Vaughan Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski Polish literature translation Transnational Poetics transnationalism http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1515 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:46:11 -0700 Brian Reed 1515 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/corpse <p>Okay, I've turned forty.  On my birthday I celebrated my obsolescence by translating a sonnet titled &quot;To a Corpse.&quot; </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/corpse">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/corpse#comments Baroque jan andrzej morsztyn lyric poetry Polish literature sonnets http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1231 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:46:59 -0700 Brian Reed 1231 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/beware-she-strikes <p>It's been a while since I posted to Arcade.  So many deadlines!  Several times a day I find myself mumbling, &quot;But at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near.&quot;  </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/beware-she-strikes">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/beware-she-strikes#comments Andrew Marvell Baroque Death Mikolaj Sep-Szarzynski Polish literature turning forty http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1214 Mon, 16 May 2011 12:45:57 -0700 Brian Reed 1214 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/vladivostok-calling <p>Last year I wrote a &quot;best of 2009&quot; post for Arcade.  This year I want to do something different.  I want to share someone else's list.  Part of it, anyway.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/vladivostok-calling">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/vladivostok-calling#comments 2010 American literature Jonathan Franzen Polish literature Russian literature Tom McCarthy year in review http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1107 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:47:39 -0800 Brian Reed 1107 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/dance-fever <p>I've long been fascinated by Isadora Duncan's later career. After the 1917 October Revolution, she moved to the Soviet Union, where she opened a dance school for girls. She married the poet Sergei Esenin, drank to excess, and then, when the state failed to fund her school sufficiently, undertook a deliciously scandalous tour of the USA.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/dance-fever">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/dance-fever#comments dance Isadora Duncan lyric poetry photography Polish literature Wislawa Symborska woman artist http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/599 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:56:02 -0800 Brian Reed 599 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/hot-stuff-cold-comfort <p>Today I heard that my parents might be coming for a visit. That sent me into a cleaning tizzy. While I scrub and scour, I've been thinking about poems that capture the intimate ritual relationship between people and the things that populate their domestic spaces.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/hot-stuff-cold-comfort">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/hot-stuff-cold-comfort#comments domestic space lyric poetry Miron Bialoszewski Polish literature http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/556 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:18:48 -0800 Brian Reed 556 at http://arcade.stanford.edu