Studies on Socialist Realism: The Polish View

Contents: Anna Artwińska/Bartłomiej Starnawski/Grzegorz Wołowiec: Introduction: Socialist Realism in Polish Literary Research – Anna Artwińska/Bartłomiej Starnawsk/Grzegorz Wołowiec: «Fluctuat nec mergitur…» On Socialist Realism in Meta-Discursive Perspective – Michał Głowiński: Realism and Demagoguery – Zdzisław Łapiński: How to Co-Exist with Socialist Realism? – Janusz Sławiński: A «New Type» of Literary Criticism in the Stalinist Period – Zbigniew Jarosiński: Literature as Power – Leszek Szaruga: The Literary Canon of Polish Socialist Realism – Michał Głowiński: «Don’t Let the Past Run Wild»: The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course as Mythical Narrative – Jerzy Smulski: The Literature of Socialist Realism: Selected Genological Issues – Wojciech Tomasik: Newspeak: Style as Language – Wojciech Tomasik: Literary Clichés in Polish Tendentious Novel 1949-1955 – Dariusz Śnieżko: The 20th-Century Panegyric Situation – Grzegorz Wołowiec: The Ambiguous Charm of Self-Criticism – Edward Balcerzan: Socialist Realism - Subversions and Deviations – Jerzy Smulski: Variance in the Socialist Realist Literary Text as a Scholarly Issue: Thoughts on Examples from Russian and Polish Literary Studies – Anna Zarzycka: Wisława Szymborska as an Author of Socialist Realist Poems – Tadeusz Kłak: Scenes from the Life of a Poet: Tadeusz Różewicz’s Adventures with Socialist Realist Criticism – Daria Mazur: PAX and Socialist Realism: A Marriage of Convenience? – Anna Artwińska: Two Left Shoes: «The Marxist Breakthrough» in Poland and Its Context – John M. Bates: Censorship in the Stalinist Era – Stefan Zabierowski: Melania Kierczyńska: The Socialist Realist Critic – Wojciech Tomasik: Literature Without Literariness: On Socialist Realist Literature and Research.