Humanizm między Wschodem a Zachodem
Humanism between East and West
Contributor(s): Magdalena Baraniak (Editor), Aneta Świder-Pióro (Editor)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: humanism; European literature; culture; cultural dialogue; literary studies
Summary/Abstract: The publication encompasses European literature accentuating Polish literary activity. The articles pertain to the cultural dialogue between Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) cultures, the dialogue in Southern Slavdom via the Habsburg Serb centre in Karłowice, the cultural and literary activity of Jan Zamoyski and Fabian Sebastian Klonowic, thematic inclinations of Baroque poets (Andrzeja Morsztyn, Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, Samuel Twardowski) as well as Juliusz Słowacki’s mystical works and literary activity in the interwar period.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-4152-3
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-4144-8
- Page Count: 294
- Publication Year: 2019
- Language: Polish
Kreteńskie adaptacje wzorców włoskich w dramacie XVII wieku
Kreteńskie adaptacje wzorców włoskich w dramacie XVII wieku
(Cretan adaptations of Italian models in 17th-century drama)
- Author(s):Małgorzata Borowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Philology
- Page Range:17-45
- No. of Pages:29
- Keywords:Crete; Renaissance; drama; Troilos; Foskolos; originality; adaptation
- Summary/Abstract:The article discusses the permeation of cultures – Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) – on Crete during the last two centuries of the Venetian rule (i.e. the 16th and 17th century). The author analyses the emergence of drama written in the colloquial Cretan dialect but based on Classical – Renaissance models, which is an original contribution of Veneto-Cretan cultureinto Modern Greek Literature. The readers are given an opportunity to familiarize themselves with this relatively unknown literary and cultural phenomenon. Passages of dramas that have not been previously translatedas well as their thorough descriptions are provided, including Ioannis Andreas Troilos’s tragedy King Rhodolinos (1647), one of the most interesting examples of creative and original adaptations of Western tradition, and a comedy Fortunatos (1666-1669) by Marc Antoine Foskolos.
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Słowiańszczyzna między humanizmem zachodnim a ideami Wschodu. Humaniści ze Wschodu i Zachodu w Karłowicach
Słowiańszczyzna między humanizmem zachodnim a ideami Wschodu. Humaniści ze Wschodu i Zachodu w Karłowicach
(Slavdom between Western humanism and Eastern (European) ideas: Humanists from the East and West in Sremski Karlovci)
- Author(s):Jolanta Sujecka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Philology
- Page Range:47-58
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Slavia Orthodoxa Realm in the Balkans; Polish thirteen-syllable meter; Jovan Rajić; Habsburg Serbs; transmission of Poland’s Baroque
- Summary/Abstract:The article deals with the cultural transmission of Western humanist ideasand writings via the Ruthenian redaction of Church Slavonic to writers of Slavia Orthodoxa Realm in the Balkans. One of the most interesting facts (especially for researchers from Poland) is the peculiar transmission of the Polish Baroque that the Habsburg Serbs owed to the educational mediationof teachers from Russia and from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. A completely unique example of this phenomenon is the Polish thirteen-syllable metre,or poljski trinaesterac, which was the binding form of syllabic verse in Serbian Baroque poetry throughout the 18th century. It was excellently – and rathercuriously – realized in Jovan Rajić’s 1791 anti-poem Boj zmaja sa orlovi (The Battle of the Dragon with the Eagles). The main question arises as to the role played today by the works of European humanists from over a hundred years ago which reached the Habsburg Serbs through Western and Eastern mediators. The consolidation of the influence of works seen as culturally outdated in regions considered civilizationally backward, and this is the case with Sremski Karlovci, puts into question the sense of applying the category of modernity as a key to explaining hybrid phenomena that dominate on what we call the cultural periphery. The work of Orbini, the Annals of Baronius, and, finally, poljski trinaesterac, make us aware of the multifaceted character of the cultural and civilizational affiliation of Habsburg Serbs and the centre in Sremski Karlovci, which fulfils the role of a cultural mediator among Balkan Slavs on anincredible scale – a fact that is not sufficiently noted by scholars dealing with Slavia Orthodoxa Realm in the Balkans.
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Karoliny Lanckorońskiej i Stanisława Vincenza podróże do Grecji – „ojczyzny humanizmu”
Karoliny Lanckorońskiej i Stanisława Vincenza podróże do Grecji – „ojczyzny humanizmu”
(The journeys of Karolina Lanckorońska and Stanisław Vincenz to Greece, the “homeland of humanism”)
- Author(s):Maria Kalinowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Philology
- Page Range:59-77
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:Karolina Lanckorońska; Stanisław Vincenz; Greek journey; humanism; 20th-century essay
- Summary/Abstract:This article compares the Greek journeys of two outstanding Polish humanists, deeply involved in the ancient heritage of Europe. The author compares notes from a trip to Greece by Karolina Lanckorońska with an essay by Stanisław Vincenz devoted to Pausanias (both texts written in the 1960s) in the context of the European tradition of travelogue on Greece. This comparison presents two different visions of Greek culture as the basis for European humanism.
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Paralele i antynomie. Emma Bovary i Anna Karenina
Paralele i antynomie. Emma Bovary i Anna Karenina
(Parallels and antinomies: Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina)
- Author(s):Krzysztof Korwin-Piotrowski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Philology
- Page Range:79-108
- No. of Pages:30
- Keywords:bovarism; Karenina; love; morality; fate; ostracism; psychological novel; study of woman
- Summary/Abstract:The author reaches for two classic novels of late 19th-century psychological realism: Gustav Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. The article, a result of the author’s fascination with the psychological portraits of the two unhappy women, presents the circumstances of creation of both novels, masterpieces of European literature. It offers a thorough comparative analysis of the two title characters. Several situations from both novels are analyzed to explain the behavior of Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina towards Love and Fate. The article indicates the sources of longing for a great feeling and suffering related to misunderstanding and social ostracism. It exposes various mechanisms that lead to suicide. Emma’s tragicomism is analyzed in reference to the phenomenon of “bovarism”; more-over, it is proven that Anna Karenina has become a cultural myth.
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Jan Zamoyski – vir bonus et vere humanus
Jan Zamoyski – vir bonus et vere humanus
(Jan Zamoyski: vir bonus et vere humanus)
- Author(s):Alina Nowicka-Jeżowa
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Philology
- Page Range:111-138
- No. of Pages:28
- Keywords:humanism; Polish Renaissance; European Renaissance; patronage; Jan Zamoyski; Zamoyski Academy;16th-century drama; occasional writing; politics in 16th-century Polish Commonwealth; 16th-century educati
- Summary/Abstract:The article is dedicated to Jan Zamoyski (1542–1605), a Grand Chancellor ofthe Crown and a Great Hetman of the Crown in the Polish Commonwealth, as well as the Founder of Zamość – a town which realized a Renaissance urban ideal of modernity and beauty, providing favorable environment forspiritual, intellectual, social, and financial development. The portrait of Zamoyski – a statesman, military leader, scholar, and patron of the arts – allows to interpret his political, military, scholarly, and cultural achievements as an example of the mature humanitas ideal. The author of the article pointsout that his biography, created by Zamoyski himself and by other writers in his environment, reflected the highest aspirations of European Renaissance humanism. In the Polish Commonwealth, it became a model of success, both in civic and private life; it also influenced the formation of collective identity in the next centuries.
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Sebastian Fabian Klonowic – reprezentant ostatniej generacji humanizmu renesansowego
Sebastian Fabian Klonowic – reprezentant ostatniej generacji humanizmu renesansowego
(Sebastian Fabian Klonowic: A representative of the last generation of Renaissance humanism)
- Author(s):Grażyna Łabęcka-Jóźwiakowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Philology
- Page Range:139-176
- No. of Pages:38
- Keywords:Renaissance humanism; Sebastian Fabian Klonowic; Mannerism; literary generation; Polish Latin literature
- Summary/Abstract:Poland’s humanism was a multi-generational project. Sebastian Fabian Klonowic (1545–1602) belonged to the generation born in the 1540s. His upbringing included reading early humanist writers and Mikołaj Rej, the father of Polish literature, as well as witnessing the development of Jan Kochanowski’s literary talent. The time of Klonowic’s literary output fell on the last decades of the 16th century, the decline of the Polish Renaissance. His writings, influenced by tendencies of both the Renaissance and the upcoming Baroque, cannot be reduced to a “typical” Renaissance literary practice. This, in turn, results in the fact that Klonowic’s literary skills are unappreciated and his writings rarely discussed in the academia. It isvery difficult to univocally assign his works to particular literary genres –the paradigms of Renaissance poetry, church song, secular song, Medieval speculum vitae, and didactic writing can be noticed in them. Klonowic’s writings in Latin, abundant in references to the classics, are oriented towards imitatio antiquorum, but they have the undertones of aemulatio antiquorum; they are both Erasmian and focused on the concurrent world. His writings in Polish seem Mannerist due to his usage of figures of words and thoughts; the poetics of humanism is less visible. Knowledge and experience (present also in his writings in Latin) remain the main sources of inspiration, while the achievement of one’s practical aims is the main theme.
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Poezja od serca. O wpływie rozwoju anatomii na polską literaturę barokową
Poezja od serca. O wpływie rozwoju anatomii na polską literaturę barokową
(Poetry from the heart: An influence of anatomy on the Polish Baroque literature)
- Author(s):Marta Zyśko
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Philology
- Page Range:177-199
- No. of Pages:23
- Keywords:Marinism; anatomy; anatomical theatre; Protestantism; Poland’s Baroque
- Summary/Abstract:This article investigates the impact of the science of anatomy on the literatureof Poland’s Baroque. Divided into three chapters, it discusses, in turn, the development of anatomy, the cultural exchange between Poland and Italy, and the aspects of the Polish Baroque poetry that are related to anatomy, including an analysis of Poland’s Marinism. The authors examined in the article include Hieronim Morsztyn, Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, and Samuel Twardowski.
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Rozważania o poetyckim obrazie pustyni w Anhellim Juliusza Słowackiego
Rozważania o poetyckim obrazie pustyni w Anhellim Juliusza Słowackiego
(On the poetic vision of the desert in Juliusz Słowacki’s Anhelli)
- Author(s):Milena Chilińska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Philology
- Page Range:201-224
- No. of Pages:24
- Keywords:Juliusz Słowacki; Anhelli; Siberia; Christology; desert
- Summary/Abstract:The article discusses the representations of Siberian landscape in Juliusz Słowacki’s Anhelli (1838). In Słowacki’s poetic imaginary, Siberia transformsin to the desert. This poetic vision invites a consideration of several themes that are crucial for Słowacki’s mystical philosophy: the poet’s religious breakthrough, his multiple artistic creations, and the experience of the body. In the article, Anhelli is analyzed in the context of Christology andthe experiences of Christian mystics. In this approach, the poem becomes an announcement of the religious turn in Słowacki’s spiritual and creative biography.
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Judyta z Baru, Judyta z Betulii. Bohaterka Księdza Marka w kontekście tradycji biblijnej, staropolskiej i romantycznej
Judyta z Baru, Judyta z Betulii. Bohaterka Księdza Marka w kontekście tradycji biblijnej, staropolskiej i romantycznej
(Judith of Bar, Judith of Bethulia: The character from
Juliusz Słowacki’s Ksiądz Marek in the contexts of biblical, Old Polish, and romantic tradition)
- Author(s):Agata Starownik
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Philology
- Page Range:225-258
- No. of Pages:34
- Keywords:Judith; Juliusz Słowacki; Bible; historiosophy
- Summary/Abstract:The paper discusses Judith, a character in Juliusz Słowacki’s drama Ksiądz Marek (1843), in the context of biblical tradition. First, the biblical Book of Judith, including its Old Polish and Romantic renderings, is discussed. Then, Słowacki’s interpretation of Judith’s story is presented. Słowacki combines the traditional and the romantic visions of the character, who has been interesting for the artists for ages because of her contradictions: she is a female warrior, pious and noble, although she fights in a controversial way that includes ruse. Słowacki’s Judith lives in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and – similarly to other romantic renderings – is a complicated, individualized character with her internal conflicts more important than political battles. Although the heroine fails and her city falls, she eventually wins in the spiritual dimension and reconciles the contradictions – in accordance with the Medieval and Early Modern interpretations. For Słowacki, similarly to the traditional reading, the story of Judith is a historiosophic parable about human contribution to the God’s plan.
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Przeciwstawne światy Schulza i Gombrowicza. Schulzowska antyhumanistyczna koncepcja świata
Przeciwstawne światy Schulza i Gombrowicza.
Schulzowska antyhumanistyczna koncepcja świata
(The opposite worlds of Schulz and Gombrowicz: Schulz’s anti-humanist vision of the world)
- Author(s):Sotirios Karageorgos
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Philology
- Page Range:259-271
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:anti-humanism; „I”; crowd; individual existence
- Summary/Abstract:Bruno Schulz and Witold Gombrowicz, two representatives of the Polish avant-garde prose of the 1930s, had not only different but even opposing worldviews and personal philosophies. This opposition has been revealedin the public conversation between them, which started with Gombrowicz’s open letter. In his response, Schulz calls Gombrowicz a „great humanist”. An analysis of Schulz’s correspondence and artistic works shows his antihumanist approach to the world.
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Biogramy autorów
Biogramy autorów
(Authors biographies)
- Author(s):Magdalena Baraniak, Aneta Świder-Pióro
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature, Philology
- Page Range:273-281
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:humanism; European literature; culture; cultural dialogue; literary studies
- Summary/Abstract:The publication encompasses European literature accentuating Polish literary activity. The articles pertain to the cultural dialogue between Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) cultures, the dialogue in Southern Slavdom via the Habsburg Serb centre in Karłowice, the cultural and literary activity of Jan Zamoyski and Fabian Sebastian Klonowic, thematic inclinations of Baroque poets (Andrzeja Morsztyn, Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, Samuel Twardowski) as well as Juliusz Słowacki’s mystical works and literary activity in the interwar period.
- Price: 4.50 €