{"id":13934,"date":"2022-02-08T11:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T11:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl\/?p=13934"},"modified":"2025-05-21T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T09:42:09","slug":"recenzja-ksiazki-striking-the-chords-of-spirit-and-flesh-in-polish-poetry-w-czasopismie-moderne-sprachen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl\/en\/recenzja-ksiazki-striking-the-chords-of-spirit-and-flesh-in-polish-poetry-w-czasopismie-moderne-sprachen\/","title":{"rendered":"Recenzja ksi\u0105\u017cki \u201eStriking the Chords of Spirit and Flesh in Polish Poetry…\u201d w czasopi\u015bmie \u201eModerne Sprachen\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

W czasopi\u015bmie \u201eModerne Sprachen\u201d nr 64.2 (2020) ukaza\u0142a si\u0119 recenzja ksi\u0105\u017cki Jean Ward, Marii Fengler i Marii Grzegorzewskiej Striking the Chords of Spirit and Flesh in Polish Poetry. A Serendipity<\/em><\/a> wydanej w serii Boto.Between. Poni\u017cej prezentujemy fragment tekstu. Ca\u0142\u0105 recenzj\u0119 mo\u017cna znale\u017a\u0107 na stronach 231-232.<\/p>\n

\u201eReviewing a collection of essays like Striking the Chords of Spirit and Flesh in Polish Poetry. A Serendipity<\/em> five years after its publication date might seem like being late to the party, especially when the conference which inspired the volume (itself titled Poetry: Flesh Made Word. Word Made Flesh<\/em>) took place in Gda\u0144sk in 2013. In this case, however, the subject matter is timeless indeed: Polish poetry and religion.<\/p>\n

The volume contains seventeen essays, which together offer an overview of Polish poetry from the Baroque up to the present day \u2013 all with a focus on the theological connection between spirit (\u201cduch\u201d) and flesh (\u201ccia\u0142o\u201d). This overview is by no means meant to be exhaustive, as Jean Ward, who together with Maria Fengler and Ma\u0142gorzata Grzegorzewska is one of the editors of the collection, writes in her introduction. The individual essays, while focusing on works from four centuries of Polish literary history, are case studies.<\/p>\n

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The broad range of authors presented in the volume (…) includes more prominent poets, like Nobel Laureate Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz or the romantics Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz S\u0142owacki, Zygmunt Krasi\u0144ski, and Cyprian Kamil Norwid, but also those who are not well-known even in Poland, like Baroque poet Stanis\u0142aw Herakliusz Lubomirski. Especially interesting is Wac\u0142aw Grzybowski\u2019s essay about Karol Wojty\u0142a\u2019s poetry, since Wojty\u0142a is generally more widely known as Pope John Paul II and not as the poet he was, too, for his entire life.<\/p>\n

While this broad scope tends to give the volume a rather eclectic character \u2013 for example, it also contains an essay by Fr. J\u00f3zef Tischner, which offers philosophical context, and an excellent contribution by Bill Johnston about the process of translating contemporary poet Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki \u2013 it also allows it to contain something of interest for readers of different backgrounds. To ensure that these readers are indeed reached, the volume also remedies the problem that a lot of the works of the poets discussed are not available in English (or, for that matter, German or French) translation. All quoted poems are translated into English, while a small anthology of such translations concludes the volume. This is particularly helpful for readers who approach the book without a background in Slavic or Polish Studies, but with a theological outlook, and might spark more interest in the interplay between Polish poetry and religion.<\/p>\n

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Striking the Chords of Spirit and Flesh in Polish Poetry<\/em> offers refreshing perspectives both for literary scholars and theologians. At the same time, it completes a successful balancing act \u2013 between serving as an introduction to Polish (religious) literary history that looks for and finds parallels among others in English and French literature, and as a work of both in-depth and interdisciplinary research\u201d.<\/p>\n

Autorem recenzji jest Bob Muilwijk (Paris-Lodron-Universit\u00e4t Salzburg).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

W czasopi\u015bmie \u201eModerne Sprachen\u201d nr 64.2 (2020) ukaza\u0142a si\u0119 recenzja ksi\u0105\u017cki Jean Ward, Marii Fengler i Marii Grzegorzewskiej Striking the Chords of Spirit and Flesh in Polish Poetry. A Serendipity wydanej w serii Boto.Between. Poni\u017cej prezentujemy fragment tekstu. Ca\u0142\u0105 recenzj\u0119 mo\u017cna znale\u017a\u0107 na stronach 231-232. \u201eReviewing a collection of essays like Striking the Chords of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1718,"featured_media":11321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6779],"tags":[2556],"class_list":["post-13934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-w-prawie-i-mediach","tag-recenzja"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}