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Romantyczne „kuźnie natury” w perspektywie ekokrytyki
Romantic “Forges of Nature” from the Ecocritical Perspective

Author(s): Wojciech Hamerski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: ecocriticism; romanticism; nature; Janion; Mickiewicz; Kraszewski

Summary/Abstract: The article proposes an ecocritical approach to Polish Romanticism. Both British and American “green studies” are deeply rooted in the literature of the 19th century: Wordsworth, Clare, Shelley, Thoreau, Emerson and Melville serve as a significant point of reference for contemporary critics. The article argues that the “national trauma” of the Partitions considered as an major obstacle for ecocritical reading of Polish Romantic literature creates an opportunity to establish a new idiom in “green studies”.

  • Issue Year: 29/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 41-61
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish