W kręgu mitologii ojczystych
On Native Mythologies

Author(s): Jan Kieniewicz
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: mythology; myths; homeland; native land; Poland; national heritage
Summary/Abstract: This book of (scholarly) essays reflects on the natives mythologies of Poles – on traces left in the collective memory of mythologies of the nobility, the intelligentsia, and plebeian mythologies. The author addresses the issue of mythology’s perseverance, trying to see if old mythologies – like those of the nobility and the intelligentsia, Sarmatian or Romantic, nationalist or revolutionary ones – are still present in our lives. He also ponders the role played by mythologies in the shaping of society’s relationship with the natural environment.

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