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The Remnants of Modernity: Two Essays on Sarmatism and Utopia in Polish Contemporary Literature

The Remnants of Modernity: Two Essays on Sarmatism and Utopia in Polish Contemporary Literature

Hardcover

Series: Modernity in Question, Book 6

PolishLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631629249
ISBN13: 9783631629246
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Dec 15 2014
Pages: 193
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Post-communist Polish culture faced a problem: how to reconcile a growing demand for individual autonomy with a growing need for interpersonal and interspecies solidarity. The author argues that writers sought a solution in the processing of remnants - in the productive destruction of two leftovers of modernity: Sarmatian and utopia.

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