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
• Tomasz Garbol's book reconstructs Czeslaw Milosz's poetic vision of the world after the Fall. The entry point to this approach is the conviction about... 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

Transcultural Haiku

Beata Śniecikowska

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

Photo-Graphemicality

Barbara Englender

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 30
• The turn of the twentieth and twenty-first century brought about sweeping technological changes which impacted our way of functioning in society. One ... Lees meer

The Persona of Czeslaw Milosz

Mikolaj Golubiewski

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 11
• The Persona of Czeslaw Milosz considers the poetry of Milosz in the innovative light of world literature and comparative literary studies. The author ... Lees meer

Romantic Memory

Krzysztof Trybuś

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 15
• The book depicts the phenomenon of cultural memory preserved in the Polish Romantic literature, predominantly in the works of Mickiewicz, Slowacki, an... 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

Polish Translation Studies in Action

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 16
• Translation Studies has been in action in the Polish humanities since 1930s. The book gathers the most important contributions from Polish translation... 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

Literature and Media

Maryla Hopfinger

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

The Autobiographical Triangle

Malgorzata Czermińska

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 14
• Critical revised edition and translation by Jean Ward This book presents a universal theory of autobiography, defined as a "triangular" form of uttera... Lees meer

Understanding Misunderstanding. Vol. 2: Artistic Practices

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 18
• The objective of this book is to continue the reflection on the innovative potential of misunderstanding in cross-cultural encounters which we started... Lees meer

The Prose Poem as a (Non)Genre

Agnieszka Kluba

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 27
• Is the prose poem revolutionary and subversive, or marginal and lyrical? What makes a piece of prose a prose poem? Is its identity vague or precisely ... 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

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

Myths in Disguise

Michal Glowiński

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

Somatic Criticism Project

Adam Dziadek

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 12
• This book illustrates the problems connected with the body and the sign: the real body and the body of the text, somaticism and semiology (both as a g... Lees meer

A New History of Latvian Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Cross-Roads | nr. 29
• This volume is the outcome of a co-ordinated effort of a group of scholars who set themselves the task of reconsidering nineteenth-century Latvian lit... 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. Lees meer