| Mythematics and Extropy II: Selected Literary Criticism of Boleslaw Lesmian Contributor(s): Chciuk-Celt, Alexandra (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820416363 ISBN-13: 9780820416366 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $45.55 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Polish - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 891.851 |
| LCCN: 91-20519 |
| Series: American University Studies 12: Slavic Language and Literatu |
| Physical Information: 158 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ever since Plato, literary criticism has been so stymied by the need to justify literature's right to exist that it has paid virtually no attention to what literature needs: tolerance, freedom, and diversity so as to give creative evolution a wider spectrum from which to select. That explains why sociobiologist Henri Bergson's views have found their way into anthologies of literary criticism by default. It turns out, however, that around World War I, the Polish poet and critic Boleslaw Lesmian successfully addressed this very problem specifically with regard to literature, not as an analogy of something else; his most seminal essays have been translated herein in the hope that they will replace Bergson in future anthologies. |