Anna Burzyńska
Michał Paweł Markowski

20th Century Literary Theories: A Handbook
Teorie literatury XX wieku. Podręcznik

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Burzyńska and Markowski, within one volume, manage to discuss all the most important literary theories of the last century, from psychoanalysis to post-colonialism. The authors make sure that the richness of content and competent analysis go hand in hand with clarity and transparency of interepretation. Each one of the literary theory movement gets its own chapter supplemented by things such as: explanations of key terms, a chronology, and a generous bibliography. The books chief strength is its image-filled language, which makes the book a great read. The book also contains a fold-out map of literary theory. These great features give the book a wider audience than merely future literature scholars—it is also recommended for all those studying the humanities. This is a truly unique, can't miss, effort. This absolute novelty on the Polish book market is also and event in worldwide publishing.   

 

This book is complemented by a separate volume, a collection of texts, 20^th Century Literary Theories: An Anthology, edited by Anna Burzyńska and Michał Paweł Markowski.

About the author:

Anna Burzyńska is the head of Literary Theory at the Polish-Studies Department at the Jagiellonian University, the literary director of the Juliusz Słowacki theater in Cracow.  She concentrates on the newest trends in literary knowledge, aesthetics and philosophy—especially post-modernism.  She is the author of many  scholarly works, among them the books: Deconstruction and Interpretation (2003), The Anti-Theory of Literature (2006),three novels (Fabulant, Love and Other Bothers, The Bedroom), and fourteen plays, plus movie and radio screenplays.  

Michał Paweł Markowski is an ordinary professor in the Polish-Studies Department at the Jagiellonian University, the head of the International Polish-Studies Department, director of the School for Advanced Studies at the Jagiellonian, the co-editor of the series Horizons of Modernity, and the author of more than ten books on the philosophy of literature.  He has published, among others, the following books: The Effects of Inscription: Jacques Derrida and Literature (2002, 2nd ed.), Nietzsche: A Philosophy of Interpretation (1997), The Desire for a Presence: Philosophies of Representation from Plato to Descartes (2000), Identity and Interpretation (2003), The Black Current: Gombrowicz, the World, Literature (2004, translated into four languages), Modern Polish Literature: Leśmian, Schulz, Witkacy (2006).