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„THAT THE ASHES OF MY BONES WILL NOT BE SPURNED...” (ON THE POSTHUMOUS HISTORY OF JAN KOCHANOWSKI)In the paper, the author undertakes an attempt to present the posthumous history of the earthly remains of the author of the Treny (Laments). To our great surprise, we confront here some very concrete questions. To begin with, our doubts arise already in connection with the exact date of the poet’s death;...
„THE RITUAL MURDER OF A GERMAN”. A FEW COMMENTS ON ANDRZEJ STASIUK’S „DOJCZLAND”The subject of the present article is an attempt to interpret Andrzej Stasiuk’s novel entitled Dojczland (Deutschland - Germany) as a book which, on the one hand, seems to be typical of the writer as it continues the poetics of travel style writing, whose best realizations are Stasiuk’s essay Dziennik okrętowy (Ship’s...
Moje zdziwienia /My Marvellings/ is a column run by Henryk Markiewicz, retired Professor of the Jagiellonian University and one of the most outstanding Polish literary historians and theoreticians. In his essays, Professor Markiewicz presents and discusses various literary theory publications, comments on current events at the academia, argues with and questions authors of scholarly and popular articles,...
READERS’ PREFERENCES IN THE LIGHT OF THE RECOVERED LISTS OF SUBSCRIBERSIn her article, the author discusses the problems of readership and book advertising in the 18th century, both of which issues have been relatively little investigated so far. The article constitutes an attempt to present a sociological classification of readership groups, on the basis of the located sources: press announcements,...
THE LITERARY CRITIC IN THE POLISH PEOPLE’S REPUBLICThe essay entitled The Literary Critic in the Polish People’s Republic constitutes an attempt to answer the fundamental question: how one is to present and describe today the Polish literary criticism in the second half of the twentieth century. The essay illustrates that it is worth going beyond the widely accepted view concerning the political and...
MODERNIZOWANIE WYSPIAŃSKIEGORozmawiają prof. dr hab. Ewa Miodońska, prof. dr hab. Magdalena Popiel, Maria Potocka, prof. dr hab. Maria Prussak, prof. dr hab. Teresa Walas, dr hab. Joanna Walaszek
IN THE MAGICAL WORLD OF TADEUSZ NOWAK’S WORKSThe goal of the article is to highlight the links between Tadeusz Nowak’s novel A jak królem, a jak katem będziesz (When You Are a King, When You Are a Hangman), with the trend known as magical realism. Pointing out to the connections with this trend, which is very much alive in the contemporary world literature, allows one to survey the writings of the...
DIALOGISM AND COMPARATIVE LITERATUREThe article concerns the current situation of the discipline of comparative literature, particularly the question of dialogue/dialogism and comparative literary studies. A general discussion on dialogue and dialogism (with special reference to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory discussed by Julia Kristeva and also by others such as Paul de Man, Jola Škulj, Michael Holquist)...
A DIALOGUE CONCERNING TRADITION: NORWID AND WOJACZEKThe article constitutes an attempt to present a new interpretation of the works of Rafał Wojaczek and Cyprian Norwid along the plane which is marked out by the inter-textual relations between the writings of the two, it would seem, so radically different poets. In this context, the individual interpretative concepts of the works of the author of...
BEAUTY AS REFLECTED IN THE MIRROR OF BEAUTY – TORQUATO TASSO IN THE VISIONS BY DELACROIX, BAUDELAIRE AND NORWIDThe article constitutes a refl ection on non-stereotyped attempts to interpret the myth of Torquato Tasso in the ecphrases of Charles Baudelaire and Cyprian Norwid. The direct source of creative inspiration here proves to be not so much the legend which had grown around the fi gure of the...
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