Mickiewicz o eposie słowiańskim
Mickiewicz on the Slavic epic

Author(s): Michał Kuziak
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
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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