Indiana Slavic Studies, vol. 9, 1998, 228 p., July 1999 (ISSN 0073-6929), paper, $24.00.

A collection of articles devoted to analysis and appreciation of the work of the late poet Zbigniew Herbert. Contributors include a number of leading specialists on Polish literature and culture, as well as Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, whose poem "A Hyporborean" reflecting on Herbert is reprinted in the volume.

The volume also includes a bibliography of translations of Polish belles-lettres housed in the Indiana University Library, which houses one of the leading collections of East European holdings in the U.S.

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Part I: Bozena Shallcross, ed: The Other Herbert.

Table of Contents

Seamus Heaney
A Hyperborean

Preface

Acknowledgments

Plays

Halina Filipowicz
Hera's Glass Eyes: A Counterreading of Zbigniew Herbert's Plays

Essays

Giorgio DiMauro
Setting Maps into Motion: The Aesthetics of Wandering in Zbigniew Herbert's Essays
Bozena Shallcross
Zbigniew Herbert's Passage to Rapture
Sven Spieker
Still Life as Fetish: Zbigniew Herbert between Torrentius and Malevich
David A. Goldfarb
Zbigniew Herbert's Provincial Intuition

Legacy

Clare Cavanagh
The Unacknowledged Legislator's Dream: Zbigniew Herbert and Anglo-American Poetry
Marian Stala
Contemporaneity and Reality: Toward a Reading of Herbert by the Creators of "Generation 68"
Wlodzimierz Bolecki and Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
A Conversation on Painting

A Note on the Contributors

Part II: Murlin Croucher, Gregory Keller, and Carlton Stokes: Polish Literature in English Translation 1976-1996: A Guide To Monographic Works Housed In Indiana University's Main Library. pp. 147-219.


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