Grobu uchylić zasłonę. Pejzaż cmentarny i motywy funeralne w twórczości Juliusza Słowackiego
To Move the Curtain of the Grave: Cemetery Landscape and Funeral Motifs in Juliusz Słowacki’s Works

Author(s): Aneta Świder-Pióro
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Juliusz Słowacki; funeral motifs; cemetery; existence; Romanticism; mourning; death motif
Summary/Abstract: The book shows maturation of Juliusz Słowacki's work and thoughts reflected in funeral tropes: death, mourning, grave, cemetery, dead bodies, melancholy and other thanatic motifs existing in an extremely large number in Słowacki’s works. The reflections are related to the area of existence and poetic imagination, thus implying an interdisciplinary context, referring to art. (mainly painting), sepulchral architecture, philosophy, religious thought and anthropology.

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