The Broken Twig and blasted Heat. Silesian landscape at the look of polish people in the XIX and XX century Cover Image

Odrabana galazka i piekielny zar. Slaski krajobraz w w oczach polakow na przelomie XIX i XX wieku
The Broken Twig and blasted Heat. Silesian landscape at the look of polish people in the XIX and XX century

Author(s): Jacek Kurek
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Instytut Nauk o Kulturze i Studiów Interdyscyplinarnych - Wydział Filologiczny - Uniwersytet Śląski
Keywords: landscape; bodily; homesickness

Summary/Abstract: Author makes an analyze visions of sceneries, which become typical landscape for polish people, who lived in times of XIX and XX century. Sketch shows, that nationality was identified by homestead land and just 'home' word in a meaning of place and was not made by nature retrace, but a description, which came from perspective of itself and spiritual image. As the final result of this theory, landscape constitute a permanent feeling of missing for home and motherland.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 16-17
  • Page Range: 142-152
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish