Demony Pana Kaniowskiego. Heterogeniczność utworu Dominika Magnuszewskiego

Author(s): Katarzyna Szumska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

“Demons of Mr Kaniowski. Heterogeneity of the work by Dominik Magnuszewski” is an attempt to address the question: what is the little known, ambiguous, posing fundamental questions, heterogeneous work from 1841 entitled „Mr Kaniowski” by Dominik Magnuszewski about? A gentlefolk’s tale based around the figure of a starost-cruel, Mikolaj Bazyli Potocki, put through the filter of a horror novel, through the use of the conventional Gothic props room (a dark castle, slaughter at the castle, a bloody feast, the ghost of a mistress, a gothic villain and his demonic accessory) allowed Magnuszewski to make closer observations on human nature, rather than just disclosure the dark sides of the Sarmatian tradition. „Mr Kaniowski” seems to be a tale of madness, whose sources should be sought in the passion and the crime committed by the principal character, a tale of fears and internal struggle with one’s own demons.

Umysł uwięziony w sidłach szaleństwa i nieokreślony status ontologiczny we wczesnej prozie Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego („Wieczerza Cagliostra”, „Kościół Świętomichalski w Wilnie”, „Śmierć szaleńca”)

Author(s): Ewelina Justyna Krzykała / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

What are extremely intriguing problems undertaken by the researchers and creators of the nineteenth century are issues concerning an indeterminate ontological status and Romantic madness. The first of the motifs manifests itself in the pluralistic forms of a character of a Jew, the Eternal Wanderer, a doppelgänger or a mysterious visionary-clairvoyant, combining the features of both a man of ‘flesh and blood’ and a prophet playing with black magic. The second one — in a ‘dead for the world’ insane who out of love, loneliness or social stigma falls into the abyss if idiosyncrasy and madness. The purpose of the author’s deliberations is not only to endeavour to distinguish a tuning fork of the dominants characteristic of this type of characters that are inscribed especially deeply in the rite of Dark Romanticism, but also to present little-known juvenile works by Kraszewski. The object of the research comprises three texts out of the early writings of the writer that are the most representative of this issue: „The evening meal of Cagliostra”, „The Świętomichalski Church in Vilnius”, and „The Death of a Madman”, which are included in two volumes: „Inspirations for my friends: a booklet for lighting pipes” and „Literary journeys: fantastic and historical”.

Demonologia w „Ludzie ukraińskim” Antoniego Marcinkowskiego

Author(s): Małgorzata Więzik / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Dark Romanticism in its Polish variation is associated, above all, with representatives of the so-called Ukrainian school, i.e. Antoni Malczewski and Seweryn Goszczyński. Ukraine with its historical events and the beliefs of the local population was for these artists a source of inspiration. The article deals with some of these stimuli that we can find in the work by Antoni Marcinkowski, another representative of this group, who was at the same time a collector of folklore. Demonology, that is what we are referring to, was one of the themes of Dark Romanticism.

We frenetycznym zwierciadle romantyzmu wschodnioeuropejskiego — rzecz o najczarniejszych tekstach słowiańskich XIX wieku

Author(s): Katarzyna Żurawska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

This text is the introduction to deliberations over an enigmatic frenetic trend in the writings of the nineteenth-century writers, with a special focus on Polish, Ukrainian and Russian authors of the era of Romanticism. What is the basic assumption is to present the trend of frenetic literature, the development of which dates back to the end of the 18th and the first half of the 19th century, and to emphasize within Dark Romanticism the importance of frantic topics that significantly affected the development of later literature of horror, brutality and macabre grotesque. In European countries, the concept of frenezia was ontologically associated with various romantic trends — from the historical to the Gothic and fantastic novel, which depended on cultural conditions. Therefore the analysis of the literary material chosen from the works of Eastern European Romantic artists, and tracing the features (originally developed by Western European artists) of frenetic literature in its Slavic aspect as well as their functioning in the literature of this cultural circle — above all the manner of presenting the frantic landscape, the role of nature, creation of the protagonist, construction of events, absence/presence of God and the conceptualisation of the protagonist’s psyche is the nitty-gritty of this article.

„Opowieści Hoffmanna” — opera czarnoromantyczna

Author(s): Karolina Hołda / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article is an attempt at presenting an unusual history of „The tales of Hoffmann” — the opera by Jacques Offenbach, which — through the person of the protagonist, i.e. Ernest Teodor Amadeusz Hoffmann, whose prose was at the same time the inspiration for the libretto’s content — may fit stylistically into the trend referred to as “Dark Romanticism.” The author, while tracing the process of the creation of this opera, examines the biographies of its authors and follows, what is interesting especially for literary scholars, philological turbulences that resulted in the fact that the last work of Offenbach is referred to as ‘unknown’, although — paradoxically — it is one of the most frequently performed opera works. The article also comprises an analysis of the objects and themes associated with Dark Romanticism that constitute the axes of successive opera acts.

O śmierci niecałkowitej i zemście zza grobu, czyli do czego może doprowadzić budowanie domu na cmentarzu. Grób rodziny Reichstalów Zygmunta Krasińskiego i Noc żywych Żydów Igora Ostachowicza

Author(s): Anna Rzepniewska-Kosińska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article is a comparative analysis of „The Tomb of the Reichstal” family by Zygmunt Krasiński and the novel „The night of living Jews” by the present-day author, Igor Ostachowicz. What is the basis for the comparison is the theme of an underground cemetery, which in the case of the Gothic novel is the family mausoleum founded by the lord of the house, whereas in the modern novel it is Warsaw cellars that are in fact the graves of thousands of those who were killed during the war of Jews and Poles. The buried in the vaults have a decisive influence on the fate of the living protagonists of both of the texts. The article proves that those living characters have been also affected by death. From the analysis of the category of non-fatal death, through the explication of the motives of posthumous revenge, what follows is the description of the consequences of building a house on the cemetery, which boil down to the domination of the world of the dead over the world of the living. Both novels have become exemplifications of early Romantic anthropology of death and its aporia overpowered by the thought of the Romanticism of the forties. The last part of the article has been devoted to late thoughts of Zygmunt Krasiński, who understood death as the proper beginning of human existence. In this context, the writing by Ostachowicz turns out a grotesque, radical development of the vision of the world of early Romanticism — as if no reevaluations of the Romanticism of the forties had taken place.

Ciemne otchłanie młodopolskiego umysłu, czyli czarnoromantyczne inspiracje Stanisława Przybyszewskiego na przykładzie „Nad morzem”

Author(s): Agnieszka Suchy / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

“The dark abysses of the Young Poland mind, or Dark Romantic inspirations of Stanisława Przybyszewski illustrated with the example of Nad morzem (At the Seaside)” is an attempt to interpret the poem by Stanisław Przybyszewski with reference to Dark Romanticism. The first part of the article presents an artistic profile of the Young Poland artist, including his interests and social contacts. After that, the circumstances surrounding the creation of the poem „Nad morzem” have been sketched out. The structure of the writing has been presented basing on the classification according to Gabriela Matuszek. In the next part of the article, the question of Przybyszewski’s inspiration with the writings by Romantic authors has been developed in order to introduce the reader to the issues of Dark Romantic themes. The writer’s fascination with the works by Novalis has been also briefly outlined. In the next part, the author of the article has focused on displaying elements typical of Dark Romanticism that appear in „Nad morzem”, and discussed the manner of their implementation. What was the main reference point is a specific creation of nature. Basing on the biography of Przybyszewski, the author has also introduced other Dark Romantic motifs that appear in the poem. The purpose of the article is to recollect the poet’s literary output, which is too often marginalized, and present him as a continuator of Dark Romanticism.

Powolne wrastanie w przestrzeń w powieści „Opętani” Witolda Gombrowicza

Author(s): Magdalena Dudzińska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The text discusses the issue of space, or more precisely, the question how private, family, social space and the space of a specific place (in this case it is the castle in Mysłocza) influences the development of the central character’s personality, and how he grows into space. I understand ‘growing into’ both as becoming aware of oneself as a physical whole and the ability to recognize one’s emotions through the prism of Romantic horror, and as becoming aware of one’s surroundings. What is surroundings for both Gombrowicz and the protagonist of the novel „Opętani” („Possessed”) are people encountered in the space of the court or the castle; the encounter with them is at the same time a clash with madness, strangeness, anomaly, possession — which also shapes the protagonist and influences his growing into space. Due to becoming aware of this space, watching and entering it is possible to indicate ever newer, clearer Gothic elements in the novel written by Gombrowicz. In the article, I have pointed out, in the first place, how much gradual growing into space exposes the Gothic character of both the place and the principal character of „Opętani” („Posssessed”).

W Wałbrzychu straszy. „Ciemno, prawie noc” Joanny Bator jako powieść gotycka

Author(s): Marcel Warbisch / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The work entitled: „W Wałbrzychu straszy. ‘Ciemno, prawie noc’” („Wałbrzych is haunted. ‘Dark, almost Night’”) by Joanna Bator as a Gothic novel is an attempt to face the myth of Gothic. Is it still relevant? And if so, what purpose does it serve? Through the interpretation of the novel, which was awarded in 2013 with the Nike literary prize, I will make an attempt not only to indicate the elements that testify to the “Gothicness” of the narrative, but also to reason about the capacity and significance of this phenomenon in the culture of the 19th century.

Wskrzeszenie mistrzów — drugie, wampiryczne, wcielenie polskich romantyków

Author(s): Paulina Skrzyp / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

This article attempts to analyse the motif present in culture, that is the character of a vampire who appeared in the comic book „Romanticism” by Janusz Gawronkiewicz. In the first part, an attempt has been made to explain why the phantasm of the vampire became of such great interest to Romanticists, despite the fact that they were fully aware that vampires do not exist in reality. In the second part, I have tried to sketch the main and most important alteration that they made in this character, which makes it possible to locate the vampire in the mainstream of Dark Romanticism. I have also made an attempt to compare Romantic creation with information about bloodsuckers, gathered by folk culture. In the third part, I have been aiming for demonstrating how the vampires brought back to life from the 19th century implement the vampire myth both in relation to the Romantic phantasm as well as to contemporary phantasms, and for drawing conclusions from my analysis.

Lipy czarnoleskie, lipy borzęcińskie. Na podstawie twórczości Jana Kochanowskiego i Józefa Barana

Author(s): Kalina Sikora / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article attempts a comparative study of two poems: a Renaissance and a contemporary one, connected through a species of a tree, i.e. the linden. In both poems, the linden situates itself at the center of the poetic imagery. The article is particularly interested in the portrayals of the tree and the world of the poem created around it. Those two poems, written four hundred years apart, complement each other at the same time as they enter a dialogue concerning the place of nature in the life of man. Moreover, the search for the sources of inspiration allows to investigate the significance of the motif of the linden against the backdrop of the entire oeuvre of both writers.

David Hoppius i jego parafrazy horacjańskie (prolegomena)

Author(s): Piotr Urbański / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents a hitherto unstudied volume of paraphrases of Horace, penned by David Hoppius and entitled „Parodiae in libros odarum et epodon Q. Horatii Flacci rebus sacris maximam partem accomodatae”, published in Szczecin in 1634. The volume was conceived as a spiritual reading for pious Lutherans, who could find there Christian equivalents of all songs, epodes and Carmen saeculare. The volume constitutes one of the largest Protestant collections of paraphrases of Horace, if not the largest one, whose structure and contents closely resembled volumes popular among the Jesuits. Hoppius’s choices and decisions as a translator (since such parody‑paraphrase should be considered intercultural translation) are informed by the idea of varietas, which serves – similarly to Horace’s version – as the organizing principle for the particular chapters.

Lekcja kultury języka prowadzona przez Mistrza

Author(s): Małgorzata Kita / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Powtórzenie jako cień konceptualny (w piosenkach Wojciecha Młynarskiego)

Author(s): Andrzej Kudra / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Stylistyczne walory dawnego słownictwa w tekstach piosenek Wojciecha Młynarskiego

Author(s): Beata Burska-Ratajczyk / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Leksyka nacechowana jako przejaw stylizacji potocznej w tekstach piosenek Wojciecha Młynarskiego

Author(s): Magdalena Nowakowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Świat muzyki słowami solysty — analiza leksykalno-funkcjonalna słownictwa muzycznego wykorzystywanego przez Wojciecha Młynarskiego w jego wierszach i piosenkach

Author(s): Katarzyna Jachimowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In the article the author made lexical and pragmatic analysis of music terminology and music vocabulary, which derive from Wojciech Młynarski poems and songs. The material analysed comes from the book “Wojciech Młynarski. Od oddechu do oddechu” published in 2017. In the article it was demonstrated that music vocabulary has informational, expressive, coaxing function, and creates ironic sense of text, generates metaphors, and becomes an element of style. In the conclusions the author of the article stresses that the use of music vocabulary can result in various effects, including the change of pragmatic determinant of music-verbal statement.

Wojciecha Młynarskiego rozważania o słowach i tekstach (w tekstach)

Author(s): Ewa Szkudlarek-Śmiechowicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Interprzestrzeń komunikacyjna w porównaniach (na przykładzie utworów Wojciecha Młynarskiego)

Author(s): Rafał Siekiera / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

„Ile to trzeba się nagazdować, by Polska była Polską”, czyli o tworzeniu wspólnoty dyskursu w tekstach Wojciecha Młynarskiego

Author(s): Edyta Pałuszyńska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0