Eureka
Eureka

Essay on Material and the Spiritual Universe

Author(s): Edgar Allan Poe
Subject(s): Philosophy, Studies of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Eureka. A Prose Poem; Edgar Allan Poe; cosmology; literary cosmography; literary translation
Summary/Abstract: The first Polish translation of Edgar Allan Poe’s "Eureka. A Prose Poem" – a cosmological treatise combining references to astronomy, physics and mathematics with concepts coined by the author by means of intuition, metaphysically-inclined deliberations and a literary discourse serving an aesthetic function. The Polish text is equipped with critical apparatus and accompanied by an informative translator’s introduction and chapters by the editors, introducing the readers to the history of "Eureka’s" creation process and its literary, literary studies and translative reception in Poland.

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