In Search of Singularity

Joanna Krenz, PhD (2018, Leiden University), is Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Adam Mickiewicz University and currently on a two-year fellowship at University of Zurich. She widely publishes on and translates Chinese poetry and prose.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Setting the Compairative Stage1 Mismatch? On Com-pair-ison and Directing as Method2 Singularity: A Few Words about the Structuring Principle3 Genesis: Two Stories4 The Making of This Book1 Convergent Trajectories1 Worlds Apart: Polish and Chinese Poetry up to the Early Twentieth Century2 Coming Closer: From the Early Twentieth Century to the Mid-1980s3 June Fourth and the Polemical Decade of Transformation4 From Brotherhood in Socialism to Elective Affinities2 Old Masters and Young Martyrs1 Unfinished Breakthroughs: A Bird’s-Eye View2 One Dawn, Two Evenings: Czesław Miłosz and Ai Qing3 Crossing the Ocean: Rafał Wojaczek and Haizi3 Poets and Poetry on Stage1 Opening Up the Archives: Tadeusz Różewicz and Yu Jian2 Hyperpoetry and Hypermusic: Marcin Świetlicki and Cui Jian4 Invisibility1 The Meaning of Invisibility2 At Home in the World: Wisława Szymborska and Wang Xiaoni3 Submerging: Krystyna Miłobędzka and Zhai Yongming5 Making Names and Saving Names1 Initiations: Krzysztof Siwczyk and Yin Lichuan2 Solastalgia: Tomasz Różycki and Li Hao Saving Singularity of Names3 Singularity vs. Generation4 Toward Poetic Imaginations6 Resetting Poetry1 Difficult Poetry?2 Play and Game3 Rhyme Your Crime: Andrzej Sosnowski Resets and Recites4 In the Magic Circle: Why Che Qianzi Is Not Virgil5 We Don’t Understand Understanding7 Beyond Understanding1 Con-Versing with the World2 Augmented Poetry: Experiments with Technology3 Coming HomeWorks CitedIndex