Possible, impossible. Difficult Norwid in difficult Norwid studies Cover Image

Możliwe, niemożliwe. Trudny Norwid trudnej norwidologii
Possible, impossible. Difficult Norwid in difficult Norwid studies

Author(s): Karol Samsel
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Book-Review
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Cyprian Norwid; Norwid Studies; Czesław Miłosz; author research methodology; idiom; Roman Ingarden; postsecularism; neo-patristics; reception antagonism; William Shakespeare; series hypothesis; katena

Summary/Abstract: The volume Trudny Norwid [Difficult Norwid] marks not only an attempt to create an “impossible monograph” but also an important, large-scale record of the evolution of Norwid Studies in Poland (perhaps it is exactly this and not the other issues addressed in the book that made this interesting perspective particularly accessible). As a result, the collection of texts examined here requires at least two ways of reading and is subject to the same two parallel interpretive paths. One of these was defined by the subject of the entire volume, while the other one is performed involuntarily, in particular in the course of discussing issues that are disputable in the discipline. The author of this review found the second interpretive path as exciting as the first, hence this attempt to synthesise the two interests of the book, if only under the heading of this study – the headword “difficult Norwid in difficult Norwid Studies”.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 207-236
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Polish