Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol.1: Cross-Cultural Translation

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 17
• This book explores the covert and overt creative potential of misunderstanding. Viewed from the authors' perspective, misunderstanding proves an eleme... Lees meer

Wislawa Szymborska's poetry

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 5
• This is a reader's book about Wislawa Szymborska's poetry. She holds the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1996. The Contents of the book are the Nobel Lec... Lees meer

«Phaedra» - Ethics of Emotions in the Tragedies of Euripides, Seneca and Racine

Malgorzata Budzowska

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 1
• Emotions as 'the early form of knowledge about the surrounding world' constitute a necessary component of the human psyche. Nevertheless, through the ... Lees meer

Clifford Geertz's Interpretive Anthropology

Katarzyna Majbroda

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 9
• This book refers the voice of Polish anthropology in the Western debate on the Clifford Geertz's interpretive anthropology. This book will show how pr... Lees meer

After the Fall

Tomasz Garbol

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 26
• The book reconstructs a poetic vision of the world after the Fall and describes Czeslaw Milosz's model of modernism, shaped by his intellectual and ex... Lees meer

Under Latin American Eyes Witold Gombrowicz in Argentinian Literature

Ewa Kobylecka-Piwońska

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 34
• This book explores the influence and reception of Witold Gombrowicz's works in Argentina, where he spent over two decades and wrote much of his oeuvre... Lees meer

Romantic Memory

Krzysztof Trybuś

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 15
• The book focuses on cultural memory preserved in the Polish Romantic literature, and still present in Polish public life. It depicts the Romantic proj... Lees meer

The Persona of Czeslaw Milosz

Mikolaj Golubiewski

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 11
• The book considers the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz in the light of world literature and comparative literary studies. It employs critical debates about h... Lees meer

Photo-Graphemicality

Barbara Englender

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 30
• The publication deals with the changes that occurred in photography after the invention of digital techniques of image recording, and most of all, wit... Lees meer

Transcultural Haiku

Beata Śniecikowska

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 28
• The monograph presents the Polish history of haiku and the forms associated with the genre - in literature and visual arts. Polish works are confronte... Lees meer

Somatopoetics - Affects - Imaginations

Anna Lebkowska

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 36
• The book stems from the belief that scholars should actively engage with the areas of humanities significantly captured in the literature of the 20th ... Lees meer

Literature and Media

Maryla Hopfinger

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 23
• This book discusses the changes in contemporary culture at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries in Poland on the example of relationships between l... Lees meer

Polish Translation Studies in Action

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 16
• The book gathers important contributions from Polish Translation Studies since 1930s, including conceptualisations, stylistics, poetics, history and a... Lees meer

Writers, Literature and Censorship in Poland. 1948-1958

Kamila Budrowska

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 21
• The book describes the system of communist censorship in Poland in the years 1948-1958, as well as its effects on the development of literature. It is... Lees meer

The Autobiographical Triangle

Malgorzata Czerminska

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 14
• The book presents a universal theory of autobiography which has a "triangular" model. Three stances: witness, confession and challenge to the reader, ... Lees meer

Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol. 2

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 18
• The book is focused on the concrete literary representations of misunderstanding. Although most case studies refer to Polish culture, the results of t... Lees meer

On an Electric Arc

Maciej Nowak

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 25
• The book is a monograph on Andrzej Bobkowski's writings, a Polish author, diarist, epistolograph, and essayist, most famous for his diary Wartime Note... Lees meer

The Prose Poem As a (Non)Genre

Agnieszka Kluba

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 27
• The book provides a comprehensive summary of the existing approaches to the prose poem and offers an original conception of it, remaining close to the... Lees meer

Myths in Disguise

Michal Glowinski

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 10
• This book presents a collection of essays discussing the history of the five myths of Dionysus, Narcissus, Prometheus, Marcolf, and Labyrinth in twent... Lees meer

Praxis. an Exercise in Engaging Cultural Studies

Agata Skórzyńska

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 33
• The book is designed as a methodological exercise in cultural studies described as "engaging", which refers to a specific research approach requiring ... Lees meer

A World Apart by Gustaw Herling

Wlodzimierz Bolecki

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 7
• Gustaw Herling's A World Apart is one of the most important books about soviet camps and communist ideology in the Stalinist period, but it was relati... Lees meer

Affective Modernism:

Agnieszka Dauksza

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 35
• This work aims to provide an interpretation of certain aspects of Polish Modernist literature that have not been properly recognized until now. The re... Lees meer

Somatic Criticism Project

Adam Dziadek

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 12
• Referring to the modern theory of text, the book treats the exchange taking place in literary texts between the body and the sign. The basic concept o... Lees meer

A New History of Latvian Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 29
• In this volume, scholars from diverse research fields (literature, history, art history, and folklore studies) scan the nineteenth-century Latvian lit... Lees meer