This is the first guide to cover over 900 years of literary works by Polish women authors - from the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century...
This is the first guide to cover over 900 years of literary works by Polish women authors - from the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century. The book is intended for everyone who is interested in women's issues, as well as those looking for a synthesised representation of different cultural phenomena.
"Literature that is seen from the perspective of women produces another kind of literary history. It is not at all autobiographical or a search for an independent form of expression, as one might assume, but of the tension between the private and the public, the painful critical look at the female 'I' and the world, the fight for the boundaries of personal freedom, for possibilities of discovery and creation, about the right to happiness. There is something disconcerting in the ease of forgetting. There is something constructive in the discovery of togetherness,"write the authors.
Grazyna Borkowska, literary historian and critic, was one of the first academics to study the literary works of Polish women authors;Malgorzata Czerminska, professor at the University of Gdansk; Ursula Philips, Polish Studies expert, works at London University.
- Grażyna Borkowska, Małgorzata Czermińska, Ursula Philips
Polish Writers from The Middle Ages to The Present. A Handbook / Pisarki polskie od średniowiecza do współczesności. Przewodnik
Wydawnictwo slowo/obraz terytoria, Gdansk 2000
© Grazyna Borkowska, Malgorzata Czerminska, Ursula Philips
© for the Polish edition: wydawnictwo slowo/obraz terytoria
163 x 225, 218 pages, illustrations, paperback
ISBN 83-87316-74-1