Wanderers across language
Subtitle: exile in Irish and Polish literature of the twentieth century
By: Kinga Olszewska
Series: Studies in comparative literature -- 12; Studies in comparative literature (Oxford, England) -- 12
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781905981083
Subjects: Exile (Punishment) in literature; Exiles in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Irish literature -- 20th century -- Themes, motives; Polish literature -- 20th century -- Themes, motives
Description: "Exile has become a potent symbol of Polish and Irish cultures. Historical, political and cultural predicaments of both countries have branded them as diasporic nations: but, in Adorno's dictum, for an exile writing becomes home. Olszewska offers a multifaceted picture of the figure of exile in postwar Poland and Ireland, juxtaposing politics and culture: whereas Irish exile appears more in an economic and cultural context, the essence of Polish exile is political. This comparative study of works by Polish and Irish authors - Stanislaw Baranczak, Adam Zagajewski, Marek Hlasko, Kazimierz Brandys, Brian Moore, Desmond Hogan and Paul Muldoon - shows a literature which not only depicts the experience of exile, but which uses exile as a literary device."--Jacket.
Notes: Revised doctoral thesis, National University of Ireland

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-182) and index