The book stems from an interdisciplinary and transdiscursive approach to describe Polish masculinities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, along with the new masculinity that has become increasingly distinct in the early twenty-first century. A collection of texts, the book covers Polish literature from Romanticism to the present day to thoroughly rethink the Polish literary studies in the context of various masculinities shaped in Polish culture over the last two centuries. The individual texts study masculinity with a plethora of methods, ranging from psychoanalysis and deconstruction through feminist literary criticism to queer studies. The scrutinized works of fiction reveal invaluable culture data often constituting the most important source of knowledge about reality that no other field of art could map so precisely.
Adam Dziadek: Polish Masculinities? - Krzystof Kosiski: Pubertas
Immatura: Polish "Valor" from the Kociuszko Uprising to the November
Uprising - Filip Mazurkiewicz: The Heroic Man: A Reversal of Hegemonic
Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Literature - Krystyna Kosiska: Faces of
Masculinity - Tomasz Kaliciak: Unanimous Unions: On Past Forms of Male
Homosocial Bonds - Wojciech mieja: Masculinities of the Interwar Period and
Their Representations in Literature - Dawid Matuszek: Like Father, Like Son:
Images of the Son in Contemporary Polish Culture
Adam Dziadek is a Full Professor of Polish Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, specializing in literary theory, poetics, scholarly editing, comparative analysis, and masculinity. Chief editor of Aleksander Wats oeuvre, he published extensively about poetry and translated key works of literary theory.
