Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I. Transitions. Sarmatism. Sarmatism, or the Secrets of Polish essentialism / Ewa Thompson, Rice University,, Houston ; Spectres of Sarmatism / Jan Sowa, Independent Scholar, Poland -- Romanticism. The splintering of a myth: Polish romantic ideology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Stanley Bill, University of Cambridge ; (Polish) Romanticism: from Canon to Agon / Dariusz Skórczewski, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin -- Modernism. A concise companion to Polish Modernism / Włodzimierz Bolecki, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw ; The Modernist formation of Polish literature / Ryszard Nycz, Jagiellonion University, Kraków --

Part II. Strategies. Canonical strategies. Requiem for a Canon? The peculiar case of the Transatlantic Canon / Bożơena Shallcross, University of Chicago ; Emancipatory strategies. Polish Modernist literature: emancipative strategies in prose / Grażyna Borkowska, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw ; Transgressive strategies. Delectatio furiosa, or, the Modes of cultural transgression / Tamara Trojanowska, University of Toronto ; Compensatory strategies. Delectation morosa, or, the Modes of affective compensation in Polish memory culture / Joanna Niżyńska, Indiana University, Bloomington --

Part III. Transmissions. Immigrant/émigré, migrant, and transnational literature and culture. Emigration and its cultural legacy in twentieth-century Poland intellectual history / Rafal Moczkodan, Nicolas Copernicus University, Toruń ; The Polish-language cabaret song: its multi-ethnic pedigree and transnational adventures, 1919-1968 / Beth Holmgren, Duke University, Durham -- Literature in languages other than Polish. Polish literatures and its languages / Marta Skwara, University of Szczecin -- Translation. Translation as comparison / Tomasz Bilczewski, Jagiellonian University, Kraków ; Translated from the Polish: the fates, feats, and foibles of Polish literature in English / Bill Johnston, Indiana University, Bloomington --

Part IV. Genres and their discontents. Interwar prose / Jerzy Jarzębski, Jagiellonian University, Kraków ; Modern Midrash: a poetics of exegesis, empathy, and encounter (Bruno Schulz) / Karen Underhill, University of Illinois at Chicago ; ; Iconoclasm and nation building (Witold Gombrowicz) / George Gasyna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Politics and ethics of human relations (Zofia Nałkowska) / Ursula Phillips, University College London ; Troubled Modernism (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz) / German Ritz, University of Zurich -- War, postwar, and post-1989 prose. Shifting sands: history of Polish prose, 1945-2015 / Przemyslaw Czapliński, Adam Mickieqicz University, Poznań ; Post-traumatic outsider (Leopold Buczkowski) / Slawomir Buryla, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn ; Futurological philosophy (Stanisław Lem) / Elżbieta Foeller-Pituch, Northwestern University, Evanston ; Mythical subversions (Olga Tokarczuk) / Bożena Karwowska, University of British Columbia, Vancouver ; Alternative cartographies (Andrzej Stasiuk) / Magdalena Marszalek, University of Potsdam -- Interwar, war, postwar, and post-1989 poetry. Polish twentieth-century poetry / Piort Śliwiński, Adam Mickiewicz, University Poznań. Matter, spirit, and linguistic metamorphoses (Bolesław Leśmian) / Benjamin Paloff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ; Metaphor, vision, and poetic construction (Julian Przyboś) / Bogdana Carpenter, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ; Depth of doubt (Tadeusz Różewicz) / Andrzej Skrendo, University of Szczecin ; Against dualities with life-writing (Miron Białoszewski) / Artur Placzkiewicz, Independent Scholar, Canada ; Euphoria of the ordinary (Anna Świrszcyńska) / Andrea Lanoux, Connecticut College, New London -- Interwar drama. Drama of the Interwar Period (1918-1939) / Ewa Guiderian-Czapliń ; Apocalyptic fears: aesthetic daring (Stanlisław Ignacy Witkiewicz) / Daniel Gerould, City University of New York ; Revolution as the psychic conditiono of the Twentieth Century (Stanisława Przybyszewska) / Daniel Gerould, City University of New York ; The power of spectacle (Leon Schiller) / Ewa Guiderian-Czaplińska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań ; The theatre of truth (Juliusz Osterwa) -- Postwar and post-1989 drama. Drama as a manifold portrait: Polish drama after the Second World War / Jacek Kopciński, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw ; Border states and boundary crossings (Tadeusz Różewicz) / Halina Filipowicz, University of Wisconsin, Madison ; Poland- local universe (Sławomir Mrożek) / Artur Grabowski, Jagiellonian Universtiy, Kraków; Revolt of memory (Tadeusz Kantor) / Milija Gluhovic, University of Warwick ; The dramaturgy of Jerzy Grotowski) / Allen J. Kuharski, Swarthmore College -- The essay. The Polish essay: between Realism and Nominalism / Michael Pawel Markowski, University of Illinois at Chicago / Jagiellonian University, Kraków ; Trial and error: between criticism and essayism (Karol Irzykowski) / Kris van Heuckelom, Catholic University of Leuven ; Metaphysics of experiences (Czesław Miłosz) / Marek Zaleski, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences / University of Warsaw ; History of ideas (Leszek Kołakowski) / Maciej Michalski, University of Gdańsk ; Hermeneutics of the marginal (Jolanta Brach-Czaina) / Eliza Szybowicz, Independent Scholar, Poland -- Diaries. Poland's autobiographical Twentieth Century / Pawel Rodak, Sorbonne Université / University of Warsaw -- Reportage. Transofrmations of Polish reportage / Zygmunt Ziątek, The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw ; The four elements of reportage (Melchoir Wańkowicz) / Beata Nowacka, University of Silesia, Katowice ; New Polish idiom (Mariusz Szczygiel) / Aleksander Kaczorowski, Journalist, Poland, and Przemyslaw Czapliński, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań -- Literary theory. From soul to science and back again: a short stroll through Polish twentieth-century literary theory / Katarzyna Kasztenna, Independent Scholar, Canada -- Film. Negotiating the aesthetic: the politics of Polish postwar cinema / Elżbieta Ostrowska, University of Alberta ; History and grand narratives (Andrzej Wajda) / Janina Falkowska, Univeristy of Western Ontario ; Neither east, nor west (Jerzy Skolimowski) / Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire ; Poetics of chance (Krzysztof Kieślowski) / Tadeusz Sobolewski, Cultural Critic, Poland ; Not quite Alla Polacca (Wojciech Jerzy Has) / Katarzyna Taras, Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw ; Poetry of the discarded (Dorota Kędzierzawska) / Krystyna Illakowicz, Yale University -- Popular culture. Popular culture in Poland / Marek Krajewski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań ; Between personal and collective memory: history and politics in Polish comics / Ewa Stańczyk, University of Ameristam / Trinity College, Dublin -- Mass media. Media and culture / Edwin Bendyk, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw.