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PIASA Books is the publishing division of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA), an organization dedicated to promoting Polish culture and heritage. Specializing in works that explore Polish history, literature, and cultural studies, PIASA Books offers a diverse range of publications. The works published so far exemplify the PIASA Books commitment to providing valuable resources for those interested in Polish studies.
Current Releases
Languages And Silence In The German-Polish Borderland
Elizabeth R. Vann
My Years In and Out of the “Ivory Tower”
Dr. Thaddeus V. Gromada
New Perspectives on Polish Culture
Tamara Trojanowska, Artur Placzkiewicz, Agnieszka Polakowska, and Olga Ponichtera
A Polish Book Of Monsters
Michael Kandel
Publishing Young Voices
PIASA is accepting book proposals in all fields of the social sciences, history, and the humanities on topics related to Poland and the Polish diaspora. The proposal should contain no more than 10 single-spaced pages and be accompanied by a table of contents and the author’s C.V. or resume. The proposal should include not only a description of the project, but also information about the prospective length of the manuscript, plan for illustrations, and the intended audience. Upon initial review of proposal by a board of advisors, complete manuscripts will be invited for further consideration.
New Release:
The Short Story in a Polish Context: Classic Short Fiction from the Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries
Edited and with Commentary by Oscar E. Swan
An anthology that shows how the short-fiction genre evolved in Poland, The Short Story in a Polish Context contains selections belonging to the Polish short-story canon throughout the ages. A variety of Poland’s greatest and best-known authors and interesting themes have been chosen. Several of the stories appear here in English for the first time in Oscar Swan’s masterful translations; others have been translated by other well-known literary translators of Polish. Prof. Swan’s commentaries on the stories give the reader historical context as well as providing insight into linguistic and cultural aspects that might otherwise elude the non-Polish-speaking reader. Appropriate for use as a text in a Polish literature-in-translation course, the book can also serve as a supplementary text for courses on Central European culture or simply as an introduction to Polish culture for the general reader.
Advance Praise for The Short Story in a Polish Context
“The selection of the short stories is wide-ranging historically and thematically. In this way, The Short Story in a Polish Context presents a personal, yet fairly exhaustive, account of the Polish short-story tradition through the centuries.”
“The editor has my congratulations for making an important element of Polish cultural production—the short tale and its various sub-genres—accessible to students of Polish literature and language and to general readers.”
About the Editor
Oscar E. Swan is professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has been teaching since 1974. He specializes in Polish language, literature, and culture as well as Polish cinema. He is the author of many textbooks and reference books for Polish-language learners, several translations from Polish, and scholarly monographs and articles about Slavic languages and literatures.
The Short Story in a Polish Context, edited and with Commentary by Oscar E. Swan
Published by PIASA Books, an imprint of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences
of America.
List price $29.95
New Release:
The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America (PIASA) (1942-2022) on the 80th Anniversary of Its Founding
AUTHORS & CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Blobaum, Magdalena Madey, Janusz Bonczkowski, Renata C. Vickrey
Anniversary album published on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of PIASA. The book describes the history and successes of the Institute, includes photos and documents from the collection of the PIASA Archives.
Co-financed by The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.
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