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Taking Liberties : Gender, Transgressive Patriotism, and Polish Drama, 1786-1989.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Polish and Polish-American Studies SeriesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (482 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821445006
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Taking LibertiesLOC classification:
  • PG7092.P37 -- .F55 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Compass Points: A Prologue -- Introduction -- 1: Controversies over "True" and "False" Patriotism, 1786-91 -- 2:Poland Unmanned?- Zofia Chrzanowska -- 3: Is There Transgression in This Text?- Wanda, Queen of Poland -- 4: No More Separate Spheres?- Emilia Plater -- 5: Apocalypse Now?- Tadeusz Kościuszko -- 6: Controversies over "True" and "False" Patriotism, 1941-89 -- Transformations: An Epilogue -- Plays Cited -- Index.
Summary: Moving beyond a traditional study of Polish dramatic literature, Taking Liberties is a masterful intellectual history of what may be called patriotism without borders: a nonnational form of loyalty compatible with the universal principles and practices of democracy and human rights.
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Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Compass Points: A Prologue -- Introduction -- 1: Controversies over "True" and "False" Patriotism, 1786-91 -- 2:Poland Unmanned?- Zofia Chrzanowska -- 3: Is There Transgression in This Text?- Wanda, Queen of Poland -- 4: No More Separate Spheres?- Emilia Plater -- 5: Apocalypse Now?- Tadeusz Kościuszko -- 6: Controversies over "True" and "False" Patriotism, 1941-89 -- Transformations: An Epilogue -- Plays Cited -- Index.

Moving beyond a traditional study of Polish dramatic literature, Taking Liberties is a masterful intellectual history of what may be called patriotism without borders: a nonnational form of loyalty compatible with the universal principles and practices of democracy and human rights.

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