Requiem for a canon? The peculiar case of the transatlantic canon Cover Image

Requiem dla kanonu? Szczególny przypadek kanonu transatlantyckiego
Requiem for a canon? The peculiar case of the transatlantic canon

Author(s): Bożena Shallcross
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Summary/Abstract: Shallcross surveys how the Polish literary canon is taught as a foreign literature at universities in North America. She outlines and explains the fundamental difference of that canon as compared to the understanding and functioning of local national canons, and proposes to conceptualize teaching Polish literature abroad in terms of a transatlantic canon.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 278-294
  • Page Count: 17
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