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This article focuses on Polish science fiction of the 70's and 80's in the 20th century. It seeks to present the way the writers used artistic strategies for creating the parable of the Polish political reality. The analyses of the vision of the presented world refer to the works by Janusz A. Zajdel, Wiktor Żwikiewicz, Marek Oramus and Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński.
Michael Borch was an author of some important works describing Polish Inflanty (Latgale). In his books, he presented the history and legends of the region, according to the didactic rules required during this period. Borch was a regular correspondent with Zawadzki‘s publishing house. He ordered a lot of historical books from there, on the ground of the topic. This correspondence is a source of knowledge...
This article presents the disputed history of the authorship of Sarmatiae Europae De-scriptio, with scholars‘ debates lasting from the 18th century to contemporary times. Some concede to Maciej Stryjkowski‘s claim towards Aleksander Gwagnin, who was accused of plagiarism. Others deem Gwagnin‘s work as being original. Constructing his text, Gwag-nin drew from printed books and manuscripts by Stryjkowski...
This article presents the images of saint women, female martyrs of Christianity, which featured in Kontemplacja Męki of an anonymous manuscript entitled Kontemplacja Męki i śmierci Chrystusa Pana. The manuscript dates back to the 17th century and is stored in the archives of the Sisters of St. Norbert‘s Order in Cracow. A thesis can be put forward that the author of this manuscript belonged to this...
Many researchers on the 20th century literature and art locate Roman Jaworski‘s ar-tistic work on the border of grotesque achievements. The author of Historia maniaków, as the only writer of the Young Poland, with full awareness created and materialised his own theory of this category. In the work of writers preceding his artistic work one can see fea-tures of the grotesque, which was expressed in...
The aim of this article is to analyse the process of Witkacy‘s moulding his ethical view. During his childhood and youth, he remained under his father‘s (Stanisław Wit-kiewicz‘s) intellectual influence. Witkiewicz, who was a Polish moral authority, had a very rigid pedagogical view, but it was not devoid of inaccuracies and inconsistency. It was the main reason for the conflict between the father...
This article presents and analyses the motif of women in Stanisław Przybyszewski‘s novels. The author focused on the woman‘s nature and presented the way it influenced the man‘s character and life. Przbyszewski‘s work is an attempt at answering questions about the point of love and desire; it also includes problems connected with metaphysical side of love and impossibility to achieve any unity between...
The article illustrates ways of perceiving irony in Old Polish literature, especially in the Owlglass literature created between 16th and 17th century in Poland. The main goal of this work is to analyse fragments of texts classified into three groups connected with three genres of literature: drama, epic and lyrics. It is crucial not only to analyze them, but also to indicate various ways of creating...
This article centres around the problems connected with wonders, miracles and fairy tale themes in Branki w Jasyrze, a nineteenth century novel written by Jadwiga Łusz-czewska (pen name. Deotyma). This paper begins with biographical information about Deotyma‘s family life, upbringing and its influence on her future career; reception of her charismatic personality and writing; and finally about her...
The aim of this paper is to present the 1951 dicussion on Czesław Miłosz's escape from Poland. Wirpsza's poem, published in January 1951, was dedicated to Czesław Miłosz. It was was commented on in a literary cultural newspaper over the next few months. Miłosz is shown as a deserter and a traitor, who has lost his poetic talent. The analysis of censorship documents shows that instructions for Miłosz's...
The article presents four erotic poems by Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin: Spocznienie, Z Anakreonta, Ognie młodości and Pasterka, together with an editorial compilation. All po-ems come from the first book of Erotics published in 1779 and the goal underlying their selection was to present the variety of motifs intertwining in this anthology. The book has its direct addressee, namely the mythological...
This article presents several examples of illustrations inspired by Słowacki's poetry which were issued in 1909. They are based on four different methods and styles in the art of illustration. The present author discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these paintings, their artistic value and the public’s reception. The focus is also on the mutual connection be-tween the literary work and its...
Anna Mostowska‘s literary works was unjustly depreciated. In Mostowska`s texts, we can find all genuine problems of the Enlightment, philosophical and existential consid-erations. Mostowska‘s ambition was to be membered. That`s why she improved her style, published with the most prominent editor, Joseph Zawadzki, and demanded careful proof-reading from the publisher. She was an advocate of women‘s...
The metaphor of a journey arranges and explains the literary work by Ryszard Kry-nicki, its evolution, the presented world, and idea. The journey is one of the most impor-tant key words and motifs of Krynicki‘s poetry, and a metaphor of human destiny. The term ―artistic journey‖, related to this work, is more than a trite metaphor. Krynicki‘s road leads from nothingness, the world without norms, values,...
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