Stanley Bill is Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge. He works on twentieth-century Polish literature and culture, and on contemporary politics in Poland. He has published articles on populism and civil society, postcolonial theory in the Polish context, legacies of Polish Romanticism, and the works of Czesław Miłosz, Bruno Schulz, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. His translation of Miłosz's novel The Mountains of Parnassus was published by Yale University Press in 2017. He is founder and editor-at-large of the news and opinion website Notes from Poland.
Bill's analyses let readers see the human situations that ground
seemingly abstract concepts. His fusion of biographical, historical
and literary foci is so deftly managed that it seems almost beyond
mention: this is the sort of grounded yet conceptually
sophisticated reading strategy that makes sense now that the heyday
of high theory has passed.
*Magdalena Kay, Department of English University of Victoria,
SEER*
Bill brings Miłosz's ideas together in a discussion of his view of
poetic language as both an embodied and immaterial
entity...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through
faculty.
*Choice*
The volume is a welcome contribution to the field of Miłosz studies
and will be an indispensable resource for scholars and students of
Miłosz and religion, as well as those interested in
twentieth-century literature, secularisation and the
post-secular.
*Joanna Rzepa, Modern Believing*
The casus of Miłosz writing about his adventures with the body is
the casus of someone who understands a lot and who feels a lot, but
remains in bondage to his categories, and that is what this
excellent book is about.
*Marek Zaleski, The Polish Review *
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