• INTRODUCTION *Genre, Discourse, History *Criticism and the Genus Universum*Criteria in Focus: Forms and Transformations*Looking Ahead PART I. GERMAN CRITICISM *Coming-of-Age *Overcoming Dogma: Periodicals and Review Criticism *Toward a Critical 'Play Drive': Generic Vicissitudes *Textual Analyses* J. Ch. Gottsched* J. G. Hamann* G. E. Lessing* J. G. von Herder* G. A. B rger* J. W. von Goethe* F. Schlegel PART II. CRITICISM IN POLAND *A Discursive Inheritance *Profiling Polish Criticism *Textual Analyses* J. A. Jablonowski * A. K. Czartoryski * J. Szymanowski * F. N. Golanski * F. K. Dmochowski *Excursus PART III. CRITICISM IN RUSSIA *The Emperor's Tongue: Russian Literary Language*Criticism's "Generic Unconscious" *Parody and Polemics*Textual Analyses* M. V. Lomonosov* A. P. Sumarokov* V. K. Trediakovskii* N. M. Karamzin CONCLUSION Generic Migrants Time Travelers Looking Back NOTES WORKS CITED INDEX.
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Literature on Trial traces the rise of modern literary criticism in Central and Eastern Europe during the eighteenth century. S.D. Chrostowska juxtaposes the discourse's written forms in three linguistic-cultural regions - Germany, Poland, and Russia - to show how fluid the relationship once was between the genres of criticism and those of literature. An alternative history of literary criticism, Literature on Trial marks a shift from earlier studies' focus on aesthetic principles to an emphasis on the development of literary-critical forms. Chrostowska relates cultural and institutional changes in these areas to the formation of literary-critical knowledge. She accounts for the ways in which critical discourse organized itself formally and deemed some genres 'proper' while eliminating others. Analysing works by Lessing, Goethe, and Karamzin, among others, Literature on Trial brings a fresh theoretical perspective to the links between genre as a discursive strategy and socio-political life.
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• INTRODUCTION *Genre, Discourse, History *Criticism and the Genus Universum*Criteria in Focus: Forms and Transformations*Looking Ahead PART I. GERMAN CRITICISM *Coming-of-Age *Overcoming Dogma: Periodicals and Review Criticism *Toward a Critical 'Play Drive': Generic Vicissitudes *Textual Analyses* J. Ch. Gottsched* J. G. Hamann* G. E. Lessing* J. G. von Herder* G. A. B rger* J. W. von Goethe* F. Schlegel PART II. CRITICISM IN POLAND *A Discursive Inheritance *Profiling Polish Criticism *Textual Analyses* J. A. Jablonowski * A. K. Czartoryski * J. Szymanowski * F. N. Golanski * F. K. Dmochowski *Excursus PART III. CRITICISM IN RUSSIA *The Emperor's Tongue: Russian Literary Language*Criticism's "Generic Unconscious" *Parody and Polemics*Textual Analyses* M. V. Lomonosov* A. P. Sumarokov* V. K. Trediakovskii* N. M. Karamzin CONCLUSION Generic Migrants Time Travelers Looking Back NOTES WORKS CITED INDEX.
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Literature on Trial traces the rise of modern literary criticism in Central and Eastern Europe during the eighteenth century. S.D. Chrostowska juxtaposes the discourse's written forms in three linguistic-cultural regions - Germany, Poland, and Russia - to show how fluid the relationship once was between the genres of criticism and those of literature. An alternative history of literary criticism, Literature on Trial marks a shift from earlier studies' focus on aesthetic principles to an emphasis on the development of literary-critical forms. Chrostowska relates cultural and institutional changes in these areas to the formation of literary-critical knowledge. She accounts for the ways in which critical discourse organized itself formally and deemed some genres 'proper' while eliminating others. Analysing works by Lessing, Goethe, and Karamzin, among others, Literature on Trial brings a fresh theoretical perspective to the links between genre as a discursive strategy and socio-political life.
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• The Totalized Object: An Introduction On Jouissance
• 1. A Dandy and Jewish Detritus
• 2. The Material Letter J On Waste and Matter
• 3. Holocaust Soap and the Story of Its Production
• 4. The Guilty Afterlife of the Soma On Contact
• 5. The Manuscript Lost in Warsaw
• 6. Things, Touch, and Detachment in Auschwitz Coda: The Post-Holocaust Object Acknowledgments and Permissions Notes Bibliography Index.
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In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Boena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects-pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils-tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts. Shallcross delineates the ways in which Holocaust objects are represented in Polish and Polish-Jewish texts written during or shortly after World War II. These representational strategies are distilled from the writings of Zuzanna Ginczanka, Wadysaw Szlengel, Zofia Nakowska, Czesaw Miosz, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Tadeusz Borowski. Combining close readings of selected texts with critical interrogations of a wide range of philosophical and theoretical approaches to the nature of matter, Shallcross's study broadens the current discourse on the Holocaust by embracing humble and overlooked material objects as they were perceived by writers of that time.
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• The Totalized Object: An Introduction On Jouissance
• 1. A Dandy and Jewish Detritus
• 2. The Material Letter J On Waste and Matter
• 3. Holocaust Soap and the Story of Its Production
• 4. The Guilty Afterlife of the Soma On Contact
• 5. The Manuscript Lost in Warsaw
• 6. Things, Touch, and Detachment in Auschwitz Coda: The Post-Holocaust Object Acknowledgments and Permissions Notes Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Boena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects-pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils-tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts. Shallcross delineates the ways in which Holocaust objects are represented in Polish and Polish-Jewish texts written during or shortly after World War II. These representational strategies are distilled from the writings of Zuzanna Ginczanka, Wadysaw Szlengel, Zofia Nakowska, Czesaw Miosz, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Tadeusz Borowski. Combining close readings of selected texts with critical interrogations of a wide range of philosophical and theoretical approaches to the nature of matter, Shallcross's study broadens the current discourse on the Holocaust by embracing humble and overlooked material objects as they were perceived by writers of that time.
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As the subject of ideological, aesthetic, and existential manipulations, the Polish home and its representation is an ever-changing phenomenon that absorbs new tendencies and, at the same time, retains its centrality to Polish literature, whether written in Poland or abroad. Framing the Polish Home is a pioneering work that explores the idea of home as fundamental to the question of cultural and national identity within Poland's recent history and its tradition. In this inaugural volume of the Polish and Polish-American Studies Series, the Polish home emerges in its rich verbal and visual representations and multiple material embodiments, as the discussion moves from the loss of the home during wartime to the Sovietized politics of housing and from the exilic strategies of having a home to the the idyllic evocation of the abodes of the past. Although, as Bozena Shallcross notes in her introduction, "few concepts seem to have such universal appeal as the notion of the home, " this area of study is still seriously underdeveloped. In essays from sixteen scholars, Framing the Polish Home takes a significant step to correct that oversight, covering a broad range of issues pertinent to the discourse on the home and demonstrating the complexity of the home in Polish literature and culture.
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• "Poem about Jews" / Jan Dantyszek (Ioannes Dantiscus)
• Principles of Law of the Polish Land / Jan Tarnowski
• Catechism of the Secrets of the Polish Government as Written about the Year 1735 by the Esteemed Mr. Sterne in the English Language, Later Translated into French, and Now Finally into Polish / Franciszek Salezy Jezierski
• "Jews" / Stanislaw Staszic
• Levi and Sarah / Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
• The Year 3333, or an Incredible Dream / Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
• Pan Tadeusz / Adam Mickiewicz
• "Israel in Poland" / Andrzej Towianski
• Collocation / Jozef Korzeniowski
• "Polish Jews" / Cyprian Kamil Norwid
• The Jew: Contemporary Images / Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski
• Letters from America / Henryk Sienkiewicz
• "Mighty Samson" / Eliza Orzeszkowa
• Meir Ezofowicz / Eliza Orzeszkowa
• "Chava Ruby" / Aleksander Swietochowski
• "El mole rachmim ..." / Wiktor Gomulicki
• "The Tailor" / Klemens Junosza (Szaniawski).

A vibrant Jewish community flourished in Poland from late in the tenth century until it was virtually annihilated in World War II. In this remarkable anthology, the first of its kind, Harold B. Segel offers translations of poems and prose works - mainly fiction - by non-Jewish Polish writers. Taken together, the selections represent the complex perceptions about Jews in the Polish community in the period 1530-1990.
As Segel explains in his thorough and enlightening introduction, Polish literary responses to the huge community of Jewish "strangers" in their midst illuminate both the important Jewish dimension of Polish history and a major current in the history of Polish literature.