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W szklanej kuli tradycji
Inside the crystal ball of tradition

Author(s): Magdalena Woźniewska-Działak
Subject(s): Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Book-Review
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: baroque; mannerism; enlightenment; romanticism; romantic irony; 19th century; literary tradition; grotesque; infinity

Summary/Abstract: The article is a review of Agata Seweryn’s book Between the Worlds. Studies in the Literature of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The review’s author presents the composition of the book and examines the research problems raised in it in greater detail. She comments on the studies included in the publication as interesting suggestions for interpretive supplements of selected romantic poems and works. She draws attention to those aspects that reveal the richness inherent in the works, and not yet described enough. They are introduced by references to the Baroque tradition or reflection on normative poetics and rhetorics.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 38
  • Page Range: 252-264
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish