Leśmian internationally: Contextual Relation. A Comparative Studies
Żaneta Nalewajk
Peter Lang
Berlin 2020
General information
This study written by Żaneta Nalewajk 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 volume showcases Leśmian’s work as an example of inter-literary and inter-cultural transfer of aesthetics, styles, genres, motifs. A crucial outcome of this research is the codifying a contextual analysis as a method of comparative studies.
Żaneta Nalewajk, Leśmian internationally: Contextual Relation. A Comparative Studies, trans. Klara Naszkowska, Alan Lockwood, ed. Tomasz Wiśniewski, Peter Lang, Berlin 2020.
