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Introduction: Polish Literature and Its Worlds -- Part 1: Old Polish Literature: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque -- In Search of Origins: Bogurodzica / Emiliano Ranocchi -- World Order in a Harmonious Hymn: Jan Kochanowski's "What Dost of Us Require, Lord, for Thy Plenteous Graces?" / Andrea Ceccherelli -- A Child's Death, the Poet's Immortality: Jan Kochanowski's Laments / Charles Zaremba -- The Poetry of "Passage": Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński's Sonnets / Luigi Marinelli -- Part 2: Sources of Modernity: The Enlightenment Legacy -- The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom: Reading Ignacy Krasicki with Kant / Bożena Shallcross -- The "Fairytale" Magic of Speech: Franciszek Karpiński's Lukierda's Plaint / Rolf Fieguth -- Is Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa a Polish Work? / François Rosset -- The Letters of Jewish Lovers in Dutch: Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's Levi and Sarah / Kris Van Heuckelom -- Part 3: The Nineteenth Century: Romanticism and Positivism -- The Culture of Memory: Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz / Brigita Speičytė -- Adam Mickiewicz: Two Poems and their Brazilian Readings / Henryk Siewierski -- "Being's Fated Shade": Cyprian Kamil Norwid's "Irony" / Michał Mrugalski -- Bolesław Prus's The Doll: Polish Historical Vistas from a Japanese Perspective / Tokimasa Sekiguchi -- Toward Mass Culture: The Global Renown of Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo / Vadis Monika Woźniak -- Part 4: Polish Modernism: From Young Poland to the Interwar Period -- Stanisław Brzozowski's Flames / Jens Herlth -- "Rebellion Against Boundaries": Bolesław Leśmian's The Meadow / Katia Vandenborre -- The Polish Avant-Garde in Japan: Bruno Jasieński's I Burn Paris / Ariko Kato -- "A Man on the Brink of Disaster": Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz's Insatiability / Michał Paweł Markowski -- History and Myth: Bruno Schulz's Spring / Stanley Bill -- Psychological Realism and Modernist Poetics: Zofia Nałkowska's Boundary / Ursula Phillips -- Part 5: Postwar Literature: Trauma, Exile, Identity -- Witn