Join us for a Special Roundtable Discussion around the recently published Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature (September 2021). We will be joined by one of the book’s editors, Dr Stanley Bill (Cambridge), as well as Professor Tamara Trojanowska (Toronto), the editor of Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 (2018), and Dr Karolina Wątroba (Oxford). The discussion will be moderated by Ola Sidorkiewicz (Oxford).

The Companion is the result of a collaborative effort of thirty-three scholars working with Polish literature across seventeen countries. It considers Polish literature in a comparative light, focusing its inquiry on the dialogic relationship of Polish literary works with other national literatures, including through the perspectives of influence, reception, borrowing, and transmission. During the event, we will discuss the different modes of writing Polish literary history, both for Polish and international audiences, the place and role of semi-peripheral literatures in the canon of world literature, and the importance of a shift in writing Polish literary history for the understanding of Poland’s past, present, and future. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A.

This session requires registration. For more information, please see the events page (www.occt.ox.ac.uk/special-event-polish-world-literature) or email Ola Sidorkiewicz (ola.sidorkiewicz@st-hughes.ox.ac.uk).