Z podróży wątkiem zlewa się przypisek. Studia nad romantyzmem, Grecją i podróżą ofiarowane Profesor Marii Kalinowskiej
A Footnote Merges with the Journey: Studies in Romanticism, Greece, and Travel Dedicated to Professor Maria Kalinowska
Contributor(s): Przemysław Kaniecki (Editor), Marcin Leszczyński (Editor)
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Romanticism; travel; Greece; Antiquity; manuscripts
Summary/Abstract: The presented studies have been dedicated to Professor Maria Kalinowska, whose publications concern such historical and literary issues as Romantic existence, the Antiquity of the Romantics, philhellenism, travel. In a way, the articles reflect the interpretative interests of the Professor, and the layout of the book reflects the three areas that can be considered crucial to her research path. Firstly, many of the sketches are about Romanticism, secondly, many of them are of Greece – both the ancient and that of the 19th and 20th century (and the ideas of it), thirdly, they explore travel itself and its existential dimension.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-6792-9
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-6784-4
- Page Count: 400
- Publication Year: 2025
- Language: Polish
Tabula gratulatoria
Tabula gratulatoria
(A congratulatory message)
- Author(s):Przemysław Kaniecki, Marcin Leszczyński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:7-9
- No. of Pages:3
Wykaz prac Profesor Marii Kalinowskiej
Wykaz prac Profesor Marii Kalinowskiej
(List of works by Professor Maria Kalinowska)
- Author(s):Przemysław Kaniecki, Marcin Leszczyński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:11-21
- No. of Pages:11
Przypisek od redaktorów
Przypisek od redaktorów
(Note from the editors)
- Author(s):Przemysław Kaniecki, Marcin Leszczyński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:23-24
- No. of Pages:2
Mickiewicz o eposie słowiańskim
Mickiewicz o eposie słowiańskim
(Mickiewicz on the Slavic epic)
- Author(s):Michał Kuziak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:27-36
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Mickiewicz; Parisian lectures; Slavic epic; Slavism; epic strangeness
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents Mickiewicz’s reflections on the Slavic epic offered in the Parisian lectures. It shows how, above the order of literary history and poetics, the orders of ideology and identity construct, related to the image of the Slavs and the Slavism, are shaped in the Romanticist’s discourse. The ambiguity related to the ontological status of the old Slavic epic (Mickiewicz treats epic forgeries as authentic, and writes once about the impossibility of the existence of such an epic and once about the possibility of its composition) is reflected in Mickiewicz’s discourse on the ambiguity of the status of the old Slavs, marked – in accordance with an appropriately interpreted concept of Herder – by a mission and at the same time deprived of a civilising impulse.
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„Umysł nastrojony do strasznych wrażeń”. Tragedia romantyczna w działaniu emocjonalnym – na przykładzie "Beatryks Cenci" Słowackiego
„Umysł nastrojony do strasznych wrażeń”. Tragedia romantyczna w działaniu emocjonalnym – na przykładzie "Beatryks Cenci" Słowackiego
(‘A mind tuned to terrible sensations’. Romantic tragedy in emotional action (based on the example of Słowacki’s 'Beatrix Cenci'))
- Author(s):Janusz Skuczyński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:37-54
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:Słowacki; Beatrix Cenci; Poetics; Aristotle; Romantic tragedy
- Summary/Abstract:This article is devoted to the drama 'Beatrix Cenci' by Juliusz Słowacki and the procedures of emotional impact on the audience evident in the work. The expressive theatrical means appeal to myth and the subconscious of the audience. In the article, tragedy procedures are directly confronted with Aristotle’s theory (from the 'Poetics'), including additions and modifications of this theory from the Classical period. After a detailed analysis of the drama (the construction of the work is clearly not subordinated to the requirements of probability and necessity, but to their opposite laws: the miraculous and the expressive), the author of the article formulates a definition of Romantic tragedy as interpreted by Słowacki (this definition refers directly to the definition of the genre given by Aristotle): it is not an imitative but an expressive representation of a serious action, expressed in decorative, lyrical language and in a spectacular form. The tragedy creates a monstrous effect on the theatrical audience (which is an alternative to fear, as the author of the 'Poetics' pointed out).
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Poemat Słowackiego. Stwarzanie romantycznej formy poiesis
Poemat Słowackiego. Stwarzanie romantycznej formy poiesis
(Słowacki’s poem. The creation of the Romantic poiesis form)
- Author(s):Leszek Zwierzyński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:55-72
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:Słowacki; poem; poetic tale; digressive poem; genesis epic
- Summary/Abstract:This article describes Juliusz Słowacki’s creation of new poem forms of his own. It shows how the classical epic shapes – the narrator, the plot, the world, and the linguistic fabric of the text – are dismantled, first in poetic tales and then, more radically, in digressive poems. In the latter, there is also a stratification of the subject and the world, a thickening and weaving of the genre forms made with transverse bonds into a new, integral form of forms. These poetic genological transformations culminate in the late Genesis poems, in which all pre-Romantic and Romantic external forms and frameworks (genre, language, subject) become fluid and are replaced by the principle of internal links, derived from the depths of the Genesis metaphysical image, language and world. The genesis epic thus sculpted is the ultimate completion of the phenomenon of the Romantic desubstantiation of the genre.
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Liryczne powtórzenia Słowackiego
Liryczne powtórzenia Słowackiego
(Lyrical repetitions of Juliusz Słowacki)
- Author(s):Zbigniew Przychodniak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:73-86
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:Słowacki; repetition; multitextuality; writing process; constellations of poems
- Summary/Abstract:The article investigates the evolution of the literary practice of Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), and in particular his poetic works. The analysis of the poet’s manuscripts and selected poems (the hymn 'Smutno mi, Boże', 'Do pastereczki siedzącej na druidów kamieniu w Pornic', 'Nad Oceanem', 'Zachwycenie') shows changes in the construction of the texts. A rule of a single text and a certain finality of a poem meant to be published is superseded by multitextuality, a kind of draft-oriented writing process with no eventual publication in mind. The repetition mechanism and doubled themes and motifs lead to the creation of cycles or constellations of poems. Słowacki’s late poetic works inspire the reader to ponder the issues of the psychological and philosophical meaning (Freud, Kierkegaard) that could be given to the poet’s lyrical repetitions.
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Hermeneutyka siebie w spowiedziach romantycznych bohaterów (Mnicha, Wacława, Popiela)
Hermeneutyka siebie w spowiedziach romantycznych bohaterów (Mnicha, Wacława, Popiela)
(Hermeneutics of the self in the confessions of Romantic heroes (Monk’s, Wacław’s, Popiel’s))
- Author(s):Lucyna Nawarecka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:87-94
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:Romantic heroes; confession; Słowacki; subjectivity; truth
- Summary/Abstract:The author examines the confessions of Romantic heroes using M. Foucault’s concept of telling the truth about the evil committed by oneself. Confession, i.e. the act of verbalization performed in front of someone, is important. It enables one to experience self-presence and gain insight into the depths of one’s self. This builds a strong subject, aware of what he experiences. The author examines to what extent J. Słowacki’s characters are open to the truth about themselves and what their attitude to themselves is. She tries to answer the question of their conscious subjectivity, which turns out to be very different. The monk lives an illusion, Waclaw is dominated by trauma, Popiel reaches his own spirituality.
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Upiory Starego Respekta
Upiory Starego Respekta
(The Ghosts of the Old Respect)
- Author(s):Marek Dybizbański
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:95-107
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:Słowacki; Fantazy; manuscript; plot structure; character function
- Summary/Abstract:In 'Fantazy', a drama by Juliusz Słowacki unpublished during the author’s lifetime, the character of the Grandfather – the Old Count of Respect – is assigned an important role in the development of the plot. This is because the death of the Old Count precedes the happy resolution of the conflict, although it does not itself lead to it or resolve it – at least not in a way typical of the model construction of dramatic action. Despite being given such an important role, this character was removed from the scene by the publishers, who, in accordance with the accepted method of reading the manuscript, moved the only scene with the direct participation of the Old Count to the 'Abandoned Paragraphs' – a scene that was indeed not fully developed by the author, but also not rejected, because it was not deleted. Meanwhile, in this scene, which brings the foreshadowing of the protagonist’s imminent death, there are signals of connections and relationships linking him to the other participants in the dramatic events, as well as outlining – thanks to the activity of the ghosts haunting the old man – the secret romantic mechanisms of the plot.
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Intendent Sforka
Intendent Sforka
(Intendant Sforka)
- Author(s):Aleksander Nawarecki
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:108-119
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Słowacki; Horsztyński; Sforka; esteemology; reinterpretation
- Summary/Abstract:The article is an attempt at a provocative reinterpretation of 'Horsztyński'. Słowacki’s drama is dominated by three characters – Szczęsny (the author’s porte-parole), his father, Hetman Kossakowski (a historical figure) and Horsztyński (the title figure), but the new reading of the work makes the main protagonist a supporting character – the intendant Sforka. The court servant constantly, obtrusively and finally frantically repeats the key question of the work – ‘What am I?’ The linguistic analysis of Sforka’s name plays an important role in the analysis of this personage of the drama, as comic as it is tragic. Another of the poet’s linguistic jokes – the concept of ‘esteemology’, deconstructing etymology as a science, and at the same time suggesting an understanding of 'Horsztyński' as a drama about the desire for ‘esteem’ (glory and fame) – has also been treated with seriousness.
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Nieznany cykl grafik Janusza Tłomakowskiego do "Anhellego"
Nieznany cykl grafik Janusza Tłomakowskiego do "Anhellego"
(Janusz Tłomakowski’s unknown series of prints for Juliusz Słowacki’s 'Anhelli')
- Author(s):Milena Chilińska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:120-129
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Tłomakowski; Słowacki; Anhelli; illustration; Art Déco
- Summary/Abstract:This article discusses the graphic work of Janusz Tłomakowski, who created illustrations for the French translation of Juliusz Słowacki’s 'Anhelli' in the interwar period. These woodcuts, made in Paris, are in the Art Déco style. The discussion focuses particularly on the artistic vision of the space of Siberia, which in Tłomakowski’s interpretation was freed from the typical mood of sadness and melancholy. Poland’s regaining of independence provided a stimulus to update well-known motifs, referring to the Romantic tradition, recycled and consolidated in the collective consciousness by artists of Modernism. The originality of the art of the interwar period allowed Polish printmakers in Paris to create a style that combined national distinctiveness with the elements characteristic of European Art Déco.
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Milczenie ciał. O wierszu "W prosektorium" Jerzego Żuławskiego w kontekście "Córki Cerery" Juliusza Słowackiego
Milczenie ciał. O wierszu "W prosektorium" Jerzego Żuławskiego w kontekście "Córki Cerery" Juliusza Słowackiego
(The silence of bodies. On the poem 'In the Morgue' by Jerzy Żuławski in the context of Juliusz Słowacki’s 'Daughter of Cerera')
- Author(s):Marcin Bajko
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:130-140
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Słowacki; Żuławski; body; death; silence
- Summary/Abstract:The author focused on a little-known poem by the writer and philosopher, author of the famous 'Moonlight Trilogy', Jerzy Żuławski (1874–1915), entitled 'In the Morgue' (written around 1894). In his work, the author expressed a philosophically motivated pessimism; he also questioned existence beyond mortality. The fundamental problem in the analysed work becomes the opposition of body and spirit. In this context, there is also the problem of death, the decay of the body – also its absolute ‘silence’ – as evidence of human decay. A natural context for Żuławski’s way of thinking expressed through poetic images seems to be the late work of Juliusz Słowacki. In Genesisian philosophy the spirit becomes everything, while the body is reduced to a mere prison and shell of the soul. In order to ‘illuminate’ and compare the motifs of silence and the disintegration of the human being in Żuławski’s poem, the author of this article chose one of Słowacki’s intriguing and still secretive poems, the diptych 'Daughter of Cerera' from 1847.
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Źródło "Lawy" Tadeusza Konwickiego
Źródło "Lawy" Tadeusza Konwickiego
(The source of Konwicki’s 'Lava')
- Author(s):Przemysław Kaniecki
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:141-153
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:Konwicki; Lava; Mickiewicz; Dziady; Polishness
- Summary/Abstract:In the article, the author asks the question of the genesis of the film adaptation of Adam Mickiewicz’s drama 'Dziady', which Tadeusz Konwicki, writer and film director, made at the turn of 1988 and 1989. He points out the links between the film 'Lava' and another work by Konwicki, the novel 'The Polish Complex' (1977), earlier by more than ten years. They are very strong, even though they do not impose themselves on the perception of both works. Their multiplicity distinguishes the relationship between the two works in Konwicki’s oeuvre. Among other things, the author of this article points out three issues. Firstly, like 'Complex', 'Lava' is a work primarily about Polishness, it is the central problem of the work. Secondly, the author discusses Konwicki’s particular attitude as a film director, manifested in the gesture of making the adaptation a faith in its own strength. The motif of such faith appears for the first time precisely in 'Complex'. Thirdly, the motif of a beggar was to appear in the film (we know this from the script), which the director eventually abandoned. This character would have carried exactly the same meanings as the beggar character from 'Complex'. Kaniecki hypothesises that Konwicki started thinking about an adaptation of 'Dziady' precisely when he was writing 'The Polish Complex'.
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Balladyna (pop)
Balladyna (pop)
(Balladina (pop))
- Author(s):Arkadiusz Bagłajewski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:154-167
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:Słowacki; Balladina; reception; cultural recycling; detective stories
- Summary/Abstract:The subject of the interpretation are detective stories by eight authors, collected in the anthology 'Balladyna' (Poznań 2019), which were inspired by Juliusz Słowacki’s drama. Using the concept of cultural recycling as a strategy for the use (exploitation) of a Romantic work, a classification of references in the area of the pop culture genre (especially the motif of sisterhood, and guilt and punishment) was made. It was pointed out that the most interesting references take place in the situation of a departure from the criminal scheme (crime fiction).
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Grecja we "Wstępie" księcia Edwarda Lubomirskiego do przekładu "Fausta" A.E.F. Klingemanna
Grecja we "Wstępie" księcia Edwarda Lubomirskiego do przekładu "Fausta" A.E.F. Klingemanna
(Greece in Prince Edward Lubomirski’s 'Introduction' to the translation of 'Faust' by A.E.F. Klingemann)
- Author(s):Jarosław Mariusz Ławski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:171-188
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:Faust; Edward Lubomirski; A.E.F. Klingemann; Greece; Hellenism
- Summary/Abstract:The author of this article traces the image of Greece and Greek culture in the extensive 'Introduction' to the Polish translation of the five-act tragedy 'Faust' by A.E. Klingemann. The translation was made and prefaced by Prince Edward Lubomirski (1796–1823). Lubomirski’s 'Introduction' contains the first programme of Polish national literature formulated in the spirit of Romanticism. Lubomirski rejects the principle of three unities in theatre, demands a return to the sources of reading Greek tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles in the first place), rejects the Renaissance and classicist interpretation of Aristotle’s 'Poetics', which introduced the principle of three unities (action, place and time) into modern theatre. At the same time, an analysis of his translation of 'Faust' reveals that it is a cultural paraphrase, attempting to eliminate themes from the text that would undermine the seriousness of the tragedy (blasphemies, operaticism, marionette-like). Lubomirski hellenises his paraphrase by introducing references to Greek mythology, which he considers fresher than the Roman mythology used in Polish culture.
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„Grecyia”. Jak kształtowało się wyobrażenie europejskiej opinii publicznej o Grecji podczas powstania Greków przeciwko Osmanom – na podstawie doniesień „Gazety Krakowskiej” (roczniki 1821–1828). Rekonesans
„Grecyia”. Jak kształtowało się wyobrażenie europejskiej opinii publicznej o Grecji podczas powstania Greków przeciwko Osmanom – na podstawie doniesień „Gazety Krakowskiej” (roczniki 1821–1828). Rekonesans
(‘Grecyia’. How the European public’s perception of Greece was formed during the uprising of the Greeks against the Ottomans, based on the reports of the ‘Gazeta Krakowska’ (1821–1828). Reconnaissance)
- Author(s):Małgorzata Borowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:189-199
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Greek uprising; Greeks; Greece; Hellenism; Ottoman Empire; Philhellenism; press
- Summary/Abstract:The article discusses publications on the Greek uprising that appeared on an ongoing basis in the ‘‘Gazeta Krakowska’. It reprinted news from the foreign press in Polish translation, without any editorial commentary; depending on which press the news came from, the text was either Philhellenic or even condemning the uprising of the sultan’s subjects. In this article, the author focuses on reconstructing the image of Greece that emerged from such an alloy of reports on the uprising. Greece remained virtually an abstract construct with undefined and fluid boundaries. It seemed to have more in common with the ideas of classical gymnasium graduates about ancient Hellas than with the vision of a future modern state.
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Dwie młode Greczynki. Wokół recepcji postaci Markosa Botsarisa w dziełach romantyków
Dwie młode Greczynki. Wokół recepcji postaci Markosa Botsarisa w dziełach romantyków
(Two young Greek women. On the reception of the figure of Markos Botsaris in the works of the Romantics)
- Author(s):Magdalena Kowalska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:200-210
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Botsaris; Słowacki; David d’Angers; Philhellenism; Greek woman
- Summary/Abstract:The article focuses on the motif of the death of Markos Botsaris primarily in two Romantic works: in a fragment of the novel in French by the Polish Romantic, Juliusz Słowacki, 'Le Roi de Ladawa' and in the sculpture by David d’Angers 'La jeune Grecque au tombeau de Marco Botzaris'. Other works devoted to this topic are also evoked, which proves a very lively reception of the Greek warrior in the Romantic imagination. The two works were not influenced by each other, but a few common points may be identified. First of all, both works are the expressions of quite an early reaction to the death of Markos Botsaris in the art of Romanticism. For both artists, in the course of their lives and works, the interest in this particular Philhellenic motif is long-term. In both the juxtaposition of the vision of death of a national Greek hero with the memory of him by a young female representative of the same nation constitutes the crucial point. Słowacki’s protagonist, Ida, mentions the tears that she poured in the place of Botsaris’ death, whereas the girl from Botsaris’ represents the sadness to the same point as hope and intellectual work. The line of Botsaris’ reception in the Polish Romantic literature, as outlined by Maria Kalinowska, leads from the model of heroic death to reflection on the consequences of captivity and the possibilities of the nation’s survival. Słowacki in 'Le Roi de Ladawa' does not present this late reception yet, but this work makes it possible to reveal a different vision of the hero’s death than in his narrative poem 'Voyage to the Holy Land from Naples'. The carrier of this modification is the figure of a Greek woman with lunar energy and Ossianic melancholy.
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Kilka uwag nad Norwidowskim przekładaniem fragmentu VI pieśni "Odysei"
Kilka uwag nad Norwidowskim przekładaniem fragmentu VI pieśni "Odysei"
(Some remarks on Norwid’s translation of a passage from Book VI of the 'Odyssey')
- Author(s):Robert A. Sucharski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:211-218
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:Norwid; Odyssey; translation; sources; Jérémi Bitaubé
- Summary/Abstract:The paper briefly presents the history of the reception of Norwid’s translations of fragments of the 'Odyssey' and the discussion on the French sources that could have been used by the poet in rendering of the excerpts of the Greek epic in Polish. The lexical aspects of the translation of a fragment of Book VI of the epic are analysed what leads to the conclusion that Paul Jérémi Bitaubé’s translation could have been one of Norwid’s sources.
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„Wstrzymajcie konie Feba”. Kilka pytań na temat "Protesilasa i Laodamii" Wyspiańskiego
„Wstrzymajcie konie Feba”. Kilka pytań na temat "Protesilasa i Laodamii" Wyspiańskiego
(‘Hold Phoebe’s horses’. Some questions about 'Protesilas and Laodamia')
- Author(s):Elżbieta Wesołowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:219-227
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:Wyspiański; Protesilas and Laodamia; drama; ancient tradition; eroticism
- Summary/Abstract:The article analyses selected elements of Stanisław Wyspiański’s drama 'Protesilas and Laodamia' (1899), especially from the point of view of its relation to ancient tradition, including the author’s transformations of the ancient myth (which is known primarily from Letter XIII of Ovid’s 'Heroides'). The author of the essay reflects on such issues as: the forms of the names used by the poet (Protesilas instead of Protesilaos, Protesilaus; Laodamia instead of Laodameja); the silence of one of the two main and title characters of the drama; the operation of the motif of the envious or cruel lord of the hereafter; the man’s desire for fame (the precedence of death) and the question of the lover’s fidelity or unfaithfulness; the motif of trying to embrace the phantom of the beloved dead with his arms; the motif of Sleep (Dream) and Death as brothers (sons of the same goddess of the Night, in Greek: Nyks); the motif of the lengthening of the night of love. The author argues against the opinions according to which there is no eroticism in Wyspiański’s dramas; she emphasises that the drama in question is saturated with eroticism. Wyspiański’s monumental mythological figures have the tenderness and potency of the deepest and most human feelings.
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Co się czyta w raju – lektury obowiązkowe
Co się czyta w raju – lektury obowiązkowe
(What to read in paradise: must-reads)
- Author(s):Elżbieta Kiślak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:228-240
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:Corfu; Odyssey; Lawrence Durrell; Gerald Durrell; Emma Tennant
- Summary/Abstract:The text describes the reading fascinations of writers residing in Corfu or visiting the island, focusing particularly on a group of twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon writers: the brothers Lawrence and Gerald Durrell, Mary Stewart, Emma Tennant and the Australian Robert Dessaix. The focus of attention becomes the intertextual chain of connections in a number of their books and the important classical tradition in which Homer’s 'Odyssey', due to the episode of Odysseus’ encounter with Nausicaa, set in Corfu, and Shakespeare’s 'The Tempest', the location of which is also linked to Corfu, are of particular interest, although eccentric and surprising readings such as Chekhov, among others, are also included.
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Ruiny, pamięć i alternatywne wspólnoty. "W miesiącu Athyr" Konstandinosa Kawafisa i "Curatia Dionisia" Zbigniewa Herberta
Ruiny, pamięć i alternatywne wspólnoty. "W miesiącu Athyr" Konstandinosa Kawafisa i "Curatia Dionisia" Zbigniewa Herberta
(Ruins, memory, and alternative communities: 'In the Month of Athyr' by C.P. Cavafy and 'Curatia Dionisia' by Zbigniew Herbert)
- Author(s):Ewa Róża Janion
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:241-248
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:Cavafy; Herbert; ruins; memory; intimacy
- Summary/Abstract:I propose to compare the poems 'In the Month of Athyr' by C.P. Cavafy (1917) and 'Curatia Dionisia' by Zbigniew Herbert (1969). My reading takes as its starting point the observation that both poems deal with the themes of ancient ruins, damaged remnants, and memory. It also suggests that they lead to a reflection on solidarity and community. These values, however, are presented in a fundamentally different way and invite the reader to a different kind of identifications. I indicate that this contrast may result from radically different thinking about ethics and intimacy. Herbert’s poetry is on the side of ethical universalism and restraint, and it links aesthetic values to morality. Cavafy’s poetry, on the other hand, stands in opposition to traditional ethics, seeks alternatives and celebrates socially condemned forms of intimacy. Thus, this contribution is a voice in the discussion on the visions of antiquity by Herbert and Cavafy, taking into account the subject of sexuality and desire.
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Spartański miraż i inne złudzenia. O komiksie "Three" Kierona Gillena i Ryana Kelly’ego
Spartański miraż i inne złudzenia. O komiksie "Three" Kierona Gillena i Ryana Kelly’ego
(Spartan mirage and other illusions. On Kieron Gillen and Ryan Kelly’s comic book 'Three')
- Author(s):Damian Kaja
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:249-258
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Sparta; Kieron Gillen; Ryan Kelly; Three; comic book
- Summary/Abstract:Although K. Gillen and R. Kelly’s comic book 'Three' (2013–2014), never achieved the readership of F. Miller’s famous '300' (1998), it has stood the test of time in the cultural reception of Sparta as a critique of the graphic novel by the author of 'Sin City'. In 'Three', the attempt was made to demystify with artistic means the “Spartan mirage” on two levels: paratextual and metatextual (covering the work with the writer’s commentary, emphasizing the role of an academic historical consultant), and intratextual (breaking the diegesis of the story, allusiveness, revealing the mechanisms of storytelling in the mode of subjective retrospections). However, the plot and motifs repetition of Thermopylae in the heroic scenario requires the reader to see in 'Three' the illusion of historicity, in fact strengthening the formula of the Spartan myth.
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Szacki, Jakub, Geralt i inni. Współczesna polska literatura po nowogrecku – rekonesans
Szacki, Jakub, Geralt i inni. Współczesna polska literatura po nowogrecku – rekonesans
(Szacki, Jakub, Geralt et al. Contemporary Polish literature in Modern Greek – a reconnaissance)
- Author(s):Przemysław Kordos
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:259-268
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Polish literature; Greece; translation; fantasy; poetry
- Summary/Abstract:Polish literature still has little presence in Greece: just over a hundred items have been translated in the last hundred years, but only a handful of them persist in the collective memory. In school, Greek children read single poems by Wislawa Szymborska. The works of other Nobel Prize winners are also translated, but – like those of a few novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz – are not reissued. On the other hand, fantasy writers such as Stanisław Lem and Andrzej Sapkowski have a strong position on the publishing market. It also seems that Polish poetry is more popular than prose, and drama is almost absent. The situation has changed radically in the last dozen years or so: the Polish programme supporting translations into foreign languages has caused a kind of boom on the publishing market. Thanks to it, more than 20% of translations have been produced recently, with funding. So one can probably look optimistically to the future.
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Wieszczowie i grabarze. Camões jako bohater transnarodowy
Wieszczowie i grabarze. Camões jako bohater transnarodowy
(The bards and the gravediggers. Camões as a transnational Romantic hero)
- Author(s):Ewa Łukaszyk
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:271-278
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:Camões; historical funeral; national identity; Norwid; Almeida Garrett
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents a transnational pattern of imagination created in European Romanticism: that of a poet’s “historical funeral”. Both the repatriation of Mickiewicz’s remains to Poland and the efforts to find Camões’ first grave culminating in the burial in the Hieronymites monastery in Belém became complex rituals of national identity; they also served to exorcise collective defeat. The legend of Camões was situated on the border between Classicism and Romanticism. Its emphasis shifted from the perfect realization of the ancient epic model to a restless, wandering life of the bard. The Romantic imagination that produced both Norwid’s poem mentioning the figure of Camões and Almeida Garrett’s groundbreaking Camões further emphasized the bard’s misery, developing the myth of his alleged starvation. The figure of the Portuguese poet became a pan-European literary and artistic motif, present in France and Poland. Garrett’s 'Camões' also contributed to the construction and popularization of the concept of saudade, considered one of the keywords of Portuguese culture. Finally, the “historical funeral” in 1880 was inscribed in the process of constituting the imagined foundations of Portuguese colonial ideology.
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Mickiewiczowski „płaz w skorupie”. Między poezją a paleontologią
Mickiewiczowski „płaz w skorupie”. Między poezją a paleontologią
(Mickiewicz’s ‘amphibian in the shell’. Between poetry and palaeontology)
- Author(s):Jerzy Axer
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:279-286
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:Mickiewicz; Ode to Youth; Nautilus pompilius; Ludwik Henryk Bojanus; palaeontology
- Summary/Abstract:The article concerns the genesis of the motif of an ‘amphibian in a shell’, i.e. the marine cephalopod 'Nautilus pompilius or Argonauta argo', capable of using the wind to move above the surface of the water, in Adam Mickiewicz’s poem 'Ode to Youth', which was an artistic manifesto for Polish Romanticism. The sources of the motif have already been indicated in the literature: ancient (Musaios, Ovid) and Enlightenment (Jacques Delille, translated by Alojzy Feliński). In the poem, Mickiewicz departed from the traditional perception of 'Nautilus', who since antiquity had been regarded not only as beautiful but also as a model of mathematical perfection. He stripped him of all his cherished attributes, exposed his stubborn persistence in the same shape from antediluvian times to the present day, his unresponsiveness to the dramatic transformations of the surrounding world, his predatory nature and complete self-sufficiency. He showed him as a selfish amphibian who does not cooperate with anyone, does not belong to any community, is separate. He has constructed a symbol of extreme conservatism. The author of the article reflects on the role of the lectures Mickiewicz listened to at Vilnius University: the classical philologist Godfryd Ernest Groddeck and – definitely of less interest to researchers so far – the naturalist Ludwik Henryk Bojanus, thanks to whom the poet learned about the latest discussions related to the birth of new scientific disciplines: palaeontology with elements of geology and comparative anatomy. The author puts forward the thesis that the ‘amphibian in the shell’ was born in Mickiewicz’s imagination ‘at the meeting point’ of the influences of the two charismatic teachers.
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Słowacki, statek parowy i nowoczesność
Słowacki, statek parowy i nowoczesność
(Słowacki, the steamboat, and modernity)
- Author(s):Marcin Leszczyński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:287-300
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:Słowacki; Voyage to the Holy Land from Naples; Mr Alphons; steamboat; modernity
- Summary/Abstract:In his letters, Juliusz Słowacki often depicts the steamboat prosaically, as an element of ordinary everyday life associated with travel, while in his literary works, both poetic and prose, he draws attention to the uniqueness of this modern vehicle and the exceptional situation of the artist elaborating on the theme of the steamship in a literary manner ('Voyage to the Holy Land from Naples', 'Mr Alphonse'). Słowacki integrates the invention of the steamboat into the framework of modernity, reflecting on its multidimensional meaning through his imagination and artistic language. By treating the steamboat as a metapoetic metaphor, he seeks a new artistic language to describe this new reality. For Słowacki, the steamship also becomes a pretext for reflecting on the various dimensions of modernity – from the technological and scientific to the civilisational, social, political, economic, and gender-related aspects. The abbreviated references to other European Romantics (Byron, Shelley) further highlight the shared experience of modernity.
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Przyczynek do poetyki spojrzenia. "Listy znad brzegów Renu" Stefana Witwickiego
Przyczynek do poetyki spojrzenia. "Listy znad brzegów Renu" Stefana Witwickiego
(A contribution to the poetics of the gaze. 'Letters from the banks of the Rhine' by Stefan Witwicki)
- Author(s):Elżbieta Nowicka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:301-309
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:Rhine; Witwicki; travel; Middle Ages; vision
- Summary/Abstract:The text is devoted to 'Letters from the banks of the Rhine' by Stefan Witwicki, a Polish poet and publicist, an emigrant after the 1830 uprising. The author draws attention to the perception of the Rhine, important in that era, in mythical, historical and economic terms, which the voyage by steamboat perfectly highlights. The description of the voyage and the objects seen during it are subordinated to the gaze. Its specificity makes 'Letters from the banks of the Rhine' a remarkable document compared to the rich travel literature of the time.
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Po śladach romantyków. O "Listach z podróży po Grecyi i Sycylii" Henryka Bartscha
Po śladach romantyków. O "Listach z podróży po Grecyi i Sycylii" Henryka Bartscha
(In the footsteps of the Romantics. On 'Letters from a Journey to Greece and Sicily' by Henryk Bartsch)
- Author(s):Krzysztof Korotkich
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:310-327
- No. of Pages:28
- Keywords:Henryk Bartsch; journey; Greece; Sicily; epistolary novel
- Summary/Abstract:This sketch is devoted to Henryk Bartsch, currently a little-known writer who went down in literary history primarily as the author of 'Memoirs of a Journey to Jerusalem and Cairo and Letters from a Journey to Greece and Sicily'. Both works are an interesting document of a pastor, theologian and journalist searching for traces of antiquity in places that have inspired the greatest poets. 'Letters from a Journey to Greece and Sicily' is an epistolary novel depicting Greece at the end of the 19th century, in which the author pays particular attention to the poor condition of the monuments and the low standard of living of the inhabitants. The writer is particularly critical of the intellectual deficiencies of Plato’s descendants, unaware that they live among the treasures of world culture. Bearing in mind the humanist perspective, understood here as a deep experiencing of culture, which the author was guided by, the essay proposes a comparative approach by referring to J. Słowacki’s famous journey, as well as the one made by Z. Herbert a century later.
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„Chciałbym zdjąć filologię jak przepoconą koszulę”. Greckie podróże Jerzego Kowalskiego w latach 1928–1936
„Chciałbym zdjąć filologię jak przepoconą koszulę”. Greckie podróże Jerzego Kowalskiego w latach 1928–1936
(‘I would like to take off philology like a sweaty shirt’. Jerzy Kowalski’s Greek Travels 1928–1936)
- Author(s):Katarzyna Sadkowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:328-338
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Jerzy Kowalski; Greek travels; archaic Greece; Nietzsche; idealisation
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents the forgotten Greek journeys from 1928–1936 of the Polish classical philologist Jerzy Kowalski from the University of Lviv. Kowalski is looking for archaic Greece (he is inspired by the work of Friedrich Nietzsche), rejecting classical Greece as an artificial construct. According to Kowalski, only a scientist can restore the truth about Greece. In the description of the journey, he deconstructs the view of a philologist, presenting the perspective of an archaeologist. Ultimately, however, he chooses the idealizing view of the philologist as a condition for modelling contemporary humanism. For Kowalski, Greece represents the idea of freedom and human rights.
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Domysły na temat wyroczni. Jorgos Seferis i Zbigniew Herbert w drodze do Delf
Domysły na temat wyroczni. Jorgos Seferis i Zbigniew Herbert w drodze do Delf
(Conjectures on the oracle. Jorgos Seferis and Zbigniew Herbert on their way to Delphi)
- Author(s):Jerzy Borowczyk
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:339-349
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Herbert; Jorgos Seferis; Delphi; pilgrimage; role at poetry
- Summary/Abstract:This paper concerns Jorgos Seferis’s essay 'Delphi' (1961) and two of Zbigniew Herbert’s accounts of his stay at the site of the famous oracle – an excerpt from the essay 'An Attempt to Describe the Greek Landscape and The Greek Diary' (both written in the 1960s). Both artists’ expeditions to Delphi are treated as pilgrimages to one of the key places for understanding the history and spirituality of ancient Greece. The texts analysed emphasise the role of the contrast between the artistry of the descriptive parts and their authors’ mental struggle with the phenomenon of the Delphic oracle, with its meaning for ancient and modern audiences. Both Seferis and Herbert emphasise the uniqueness of the topography of the visited place, which interacts with the mystery of the soothsayers of the successive Pythias. The essays of the Greek and Polish poets were read in a research context (the works of M. Kalinowska on Herbert’s Greek travels and the monographic portrayals of Seferis’ creative and life path in the works of R. Beaton and M. Bzinkowski). Still another point of view was provided by Hellenistic themes from the essays and notes of the Italian writer and thinker Nicola Chiaromonte. These made it possible to look at selected sketches and poems by Herbert and Seferis as a profound meditation on the role of the poet and poetry in a world dominated by the cruel laws of history.
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Dokąd zmierza podróżny? O "Podróży" Idy Fink
Dokąd zmierza podróżny? O "Podróży" Idy Fink
(Where does the traveller go? On Ida Fink’s 'Journey')
- Author(s):Krystyna Jakowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:350-359
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Ida Fink; Jews; Holocaust; identity; literary journey
- Summary/Abstract:An analysis of the motif of assuming ever new identities by the heroine of the 'Journey' allows to reveal a dominating theme of the novel, namely, the peril of losing one’s own original identity: its fragility/durability, its transmutation and its nature, as well as a sort of “doubleness” of its new true face. All of this seems to illustrate sociological research on the identity of the Jews living “on Aryan papers” at the time of the Holocaust. Besides, to some extent at least, it allows the novel to be placed in the genre perspective of a literary journey.
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Abstracts. ‘A Footnote Merges with the Journey’: Studies in Romanticism, Greece, and Travel Dedicated to Professor Maria Kalinowska
Abstracts. ‘A Footnote Merges with the Journey’: Studies in Romanticism, Greece, and Travel Dedicated to Professor Maria Kalinowska
(Abstracts. ‘A Footnote Merges with the Journey’: Studies in Romanticism, Greece, and Travel Dedicated to Professor Maria Kalinowska)
- Author(s):Przemysław Kaniecki, Marcin Leszczyński
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:360-382
- No. of Pages:23
Indeks osobowy
Indeks osobowy
(Person index)
- Author(s):Przemysław Kaniecki, Marcin Leszczyński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:383-394
- No. of Pages:12
Indeks geograficzny (wymieniane w głównych tekstach artykułów – w tym cytatach – góry, wyspy, półwyspy, akweny, rzeki, regiony/krainy, państwa, miejscowości)
Indeks geograficzny (wymieniane w głównych tekstach artykułów – w tym cytatach – góry, wyspy, półwyspy, akweny, rzeki, regiony/krainy, państwa, miejscowości)
(Geographic index (mentioned in the main texts of articles – including quotes – mountains, islands, peninsulas, water bodies, rivers, regions/countries, countries, localities))
- Author(s):Przemysław Kaniecki, Marcin Leszczyński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:395-398
- No. of Pages:4
