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Open Sky

Summary/Abstract: This article reflects upon how the Catholic religion functions in Marian Pankowski’s dramas. The author present the writer’s complicated relationship to religion and the dogmas of faith, juxtaposing Pankowski’s debut drama, A Bivouac under the Open Sky, with T. S. Eliot’s first work from the Ariel Poems series. Both works paraphrase the story of the birth of Jesus, clearly foregrounding the story of the Three Kings and, paradoxically, linking the moments of birth and death. The most important theme joining the works, according to the author, is doubt, which she sees as expressing the writers’ approach to the dogma of faith.

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