“Or I will tell the wajdelots − of your shag-haired body”. Deconstruction of Mickiewiczian Myths in Słowacki’s [“Wallenrod”] [“Wallenrod”] Cover Image

„Bo wajdelotom powiem − że na ciele jesteś kosmaty”. Dekonstrukcja mitów Mickiewiczowskich w [„Wallenrodzie”] Słowackiego
“Or I will tell the wajdelots − of your shag-haired body”. Deconstruction of Mickiewiczian Myths in Słowacki’s [“Wallenrod”] [“Wallenrod”]

Author(s): Karol Samsel
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: antagonism between the bards;Juliusz Słowacki;Adam Mickiewicz;Konrad Wallenrod;

Summary/Abstract: Author of the article aims to show the sophisticated intertextuality of Juliusz Słowacki’s unfinished drama [“Wallenrod”] [“Wallenrod”]. Firstly, he exposes the anti-Marivauvian line of [“Wallenrod”]’s reading as well as emphasises Słowacki’s game with Boccaccio’s Decameron. Secondly, he changes the supposed date of writing the drama − from 1841 to the later years − because of the genesian symbols present in [“Wallenrod”]. Thirdly, at last, he confronts the previous research locating the text primarily in the context of Słowacki’s juvenile works and Shakespearean intertextuality. Meanwhile − a new type of multi-intertextual rereading of [“Wallenrod”] should illustrate that for Słowacki even the textuality of the drama happened to be an instrument supporting the deconstruction of Mickiewicz’s original.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 10 (13)
  • Page Range: 137-150
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish
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