“Place” (and “Image”) in the Poetics of Late Classicism Cover Image

„Miejsce” (i „obraz”) w poetyce późnego klasycyzmu
“Place” (and “Image”) in the Poetics of Late Classicism

Author(s): Helena Markowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: place; image; classicism; classical unities; poetics; Lessing

Summary/Abstract: This paper demonstrates how space and spatial relations where conceptualized in the Polish poetics of the early nineteenth century. The author concentrates mainly on different uses of the term “place” in theoretical treaties of the period. Comparing how this term is used in reference to drama and to other genres which represent the epoch leads to the following conclusion. Namely, in literary criticism of the times the concept of literature understood as the practice of “painting with words” was in fact a substitute for the concept of literature as spatiotemporal structure.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 181-190
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish