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The article which treats about the portraits of woman-spinners is devoted to a comparison of verbal-musical works, which are partly united by the common text (fragment of J.W. Goethe's Faustus - and in particular the song sung by Margaret at the spinningwheel), and which in part refer to the common image - namely that of a spinning woman. In contemporary theories, the image of a spinning woman is...
(Polish title: Salony literackie dziewietnastowiecznej Europy w swietle podrozopisarstwa: Weimar i Mediolan Antoniego Edwarda Odynca). A.E. Odyniec's Listy z podrozy (Letters from Travels), set within the context of multinational testimonies from the epoch, become a pretext for a meditation on the phenomenon of the Romantic 'salon' as a form of cultured life which is being enacted in the author's...
The article constitutes a comparative analysis of three Romantic digressive poems: Juliusz Slowacki's Podroz do Ziemi Swietej z Neapolu and Beniowski (Journey From Naples to the Holy Land) and Alfred de Musset's Namuna, at all of the poems are presented as an expression of the crisis of the generation of writers born around the year 1810 and often referred to as école du désenchantement. The experience...
The author of this article attempts to sketch out the development of contemporary comparative literature, in which a Eurocentric orientation is being supplanted by a genuine world perspective. In doing so, the author points out that the present-day widening of the research-field to the global dimensions signifies not so much a crisis of the discipline as a reference to the ideas which appeared at...
In this article, the author takes up the issue of the so-called 'crisis' of comparative literary studies (Comparative Literature), at the same time trying to outline the presentday condition of the discipline and to point to the objectives which it should attempt to attain today. Beside other detailed problems, the author analyses the threats posed by the hegemonic status of English which has become...
The article constitutes an attempt to present in a synthetic way the main assumptions behind the fundamental trends in the comparative studies of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as their evolution. Following the predominance of the influential model which had developed since the middle of the 19th century and focused chiefly on the genetic research of literary affiliations, and which had assumed...
The article presents some changes in the sociology of literature and particularly the inspirational role which was played in this respect by Pierre Bourdieu's reflexive anthropology. The classical sociology of literature used to focus on the issue of many-sided determination of a literary text. A literary work was perceived as a function (image, equivalent) of social relations which contributed to...
The article is devoted to the phenomenon of improvisation which is a characteristic aesthetic feature of the Romantic culture. Many nineteenth century artists regarded it as an embodiment of the issues that were of key importance for their period - among them, one finds the concept of genius or correspondence between the arts. On a few examples taken from the works of Chopin, Mickiewicz and Orlowski,...
This essay recalls the nineteenth-century roots of comparative literary studies, particularly the consequences of the Cartesian modernization of the philosophical discourse, in order to show the search for an independent methodology proper to the beginnings of the discipline. This occurred first under the strong influence of ideas borrowed from the natural sciences, yet this practice later encountered...
The paper focuses on the history and current situation of the discipline of comparative literature, particularly on the condition of comparative studies in literature and comparative cultural studies. A general discussion on comparative literature as 'indiscipline' (David Ferris's concept), based on negative definitions (e.g. Hugo von Meltzl), limitations of comparison and comparability (Paul van...
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