Joanna Nizynska
Biographic Data
| ID | 971887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Nizynska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Nizynska |
| SIGNATURE | NIZYNSKA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Being Poland
Globalization and Its Discontents
The article focuses on the challenges facing “East European Studies” in the globalizing Western academia. Niżyńska discusses major globalizing tendencies in the academic discourse, particularly in Comparative Literature, and the opportunities they present for the scholarship on cultures previously academically underprivileged. She suggests that scholarship on East European literatures and cultures has made insufficient use of such opportunities t…
Germany, Poland, and Postmemorial Relations
Covering the period following the collapse of communism, the unification of Germany, and Poland's accession to the EU, this collection focuses on the interdependencies of German, Polish, and Jewish co
The Politics of Mourning and the Crisis of Poland’s Symbolic Language after April 10
This article analyzes the deep political and cultural impact of the plane crash on April 10, 2010. The tragedy that cost the life of a president, Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and a group of leading parliamentarians across political divides took place near the traumatically laden site of the Katyń forest and has led to a crisis of communal symbolic language. The crisis has been apparent in the radical polarization of Polish society over the rhetoric …
East-Central European Literatures Twenty Years After
The goal of this collective effort is to provide an overview of the course of Central European literatures in the twenty years following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The authors have highlighted works they consider representative of their countries’ literary production and placed them in the context of the political and social changes they reflect. Where English translations of the works in question are available, they are listed in a bibliograph…
The Impossibility of Shrugging One's Shoulders
In this article, Joanna Niżyńska explores the modes used by poets of the bruLion generation (whose debuts coincided with the end of communism) to import Frank O'Hara's poetics into Polish literature and the significance of their doing so. By employing Harold Bloom's concepts of the "anxiety of influence," "kenosis," and "daemonization," Niżyńska analyzes the intergenerational impulses manifested in O'Harism in relation to the Romantic paradigm in…
The Politics of Mourning and the Crisis of Poland’s Symbolic Language after April 10
This article analyzes the deep political and cultural impact of the plane crash on April 10, 2010. The tragedy that cost the life of a president, Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and a group of leading parliamentarians across political divides took place near the traumatically laden site of the Katyń forest and has led to a crisis of communal symbolic language. The crisis has been apparent in the radical polarization of Polish society over the rhetoric …
Globalization and Its Discontents
The article focuses on the challenges facing “East European Studies” in the globalizing Western academia. Niżyńska discusses major globalizing tendencies in the academic discourse, particularly in Comparative Literature, and the opportunities they present for the scholarship on cultures previously academically underprivileged. She suggests that scholarship on East European literatures and cultures has made insufficient use of such opportunities t…
East-Central European Literatures Twenty Years After
The goal of this collective effort is to provide an overview of the course of Central European literatures in the twenty years following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The authors have highlighted works they consider representative of their countries’ literary production and placed them in the context of the political and social changes they reflect. Where English translations of the works in question are available, they are listed in a bibliograph…
The Impossibility of Shrugging One's Shoulders
In this article, Joanna Niżyńska explores the modes used by poets of the bruLion generation (whose debuts coincided with the end of communism) to import Frank O'Hara's poetics into Polish literature and the significance of their doing so. By employing Harold Bloom's concepts of the "anxiety of influence," "kenosis," and "daemonization," Niżyńska analyzes the intergenerational impulses manifested in O'Harism in relation to the Romantic paradigm in…
East-Central European Literatures Twenty Years After
The goal of this collective effort is to provide an overview of the course of Central European literatures in the twenty years following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The authors have highlighted works they consider representative of their countries’ literary production and placed them in the context of the political and social changes they reflect. Where English translations of the works in question are available, they are listed in a bibliograph…
The Politics of Mourning and the Crisis of Poland’s Symbolic Language after April 10
This article analyzes the deep political and cultural impact of the plane crash on April 10, 2010. The tragedy that cost the life of a president, Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and a group of leading parliamentarians across political divides took place near the traumatically laden site of the Katyń forest and has led to a crisis of communal symbolic language. The crisis has been apparent in the radical polarization of Polish society over the rhetoric …
Germany, Poland, and Postmemorial Relations
Covering the period following the collapse of communism, the unification of Germany, and Poland's accession to the EU, this collection focuses on the interdependencies of German, Polish, and Jewish co
Globalization and Its Discontents
The article focuses on the challenges facing “East European Studies” in the globalizing Western academia. Niżyńska discusses major globalizing tendencies in the academic discourse, particularly in Comparative Literature, and the opportunities they present for the scholarship on cultures previously academically underprivileged. She suggests that scholarship on East European literatures and cultures has made insufficient use of such opportunities t…
Being Poland
Eastern European Communism and Reforms (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)