Most Holy: On the Sacralisation of the National Community in Twenty-First-Century
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Przenajświętsza. Szkic o sakralizacji wspólnoty narodowej w literaturze polskiej XXI wieku
Most Holy: On the Sacralisation of the National Community in Twenty-First-Century Polish Literature

Author(s): Marcin Czardybon
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: nation; the sacred; literature; sacralisation; Polishness

Summary/Abstract: Czardybon explores the remarkable increase, in twenty-first-century Polish literature,of texts on the national community, its traditions and its history. Following PrzemysławDakowicz, the author of one of these texts, the entirety of these works is described hereas “contemporary national literature”. Besides Dakowicz, Czardybon refers to works byJarosław Marek Rymkiewicz and Wojciech Wencel. Inspired by the Romantic tradition,these writers attempt to create a new national sacred. Czardybon supports his argumentby drawing on narratology, anthropology and history; he also identifies the strategies ofthis sacralisation and formulates proposes a rational for their emergence.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 94-113
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish