http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10790 2026-06-15T01:25:25Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/9992 Tytuł: Ironia modernistów. Studia Redaktor(rzy): Bajko, Marcin; Pilch, Urszula M.; Ławski, Jarosław Abstrakt: The present book initiates a new scholarly series The Young Poland Movement: Revisions and Interpretations. The first volume of the series is dedicated to modernist irony, and we hope that it will start a new critical reflection on this category. The articles explore different aspects of the problem, examine different faces of irony, and consider different texts to identify possible types of irony (and also of sarcasm) both as an aesthetic stance and a worldview. Gabriela Matuszek, Hanna Ratuszna, Dorota Wojda, Paweł Wojciechowski focus on the writings of Maria Komornicka, Jan Lemański, Bolesław Leśmian, and Karol Irzykowski, exposing the possibility of irony hidden in the fabric of the texts, the mechanisms by means of which irony operates in them, ways of generating ironic modes, and ways of interpreting irony in poetic and critical discourse. By listing possible characteristics of modernist irony, Wiesław Rzońca manages to reach back to its beginnings. Wojciech Hamerski traces back its romantic provenances. Anna Janicka demonstrates how irony harmonizes with naturalism in Gabriela Zapolska’s writings. Two articles (by Marek Kurkiewicz and Anna Wydrycka) center on ways of exposing and analyzing irony in Antoni Lange’s writings. Urszula M. Pilch’s text shows how the lyrics of the Young Poland Movement exemplify the ironic stance towards the world understood as absence. Marek Grajek takes into critical consideration Stanisław Przybyszewski’s Topiel. Weronika Szulik and Kamil Krzysztof Pilichiewicz look into the oeuvre of Roman Jaworski with the critical assistance of Karol Irzykowski and Michał Głowiński. Tomáš Horváth and Iryna Shevchenko assume a comparative perspective to see Polish and foreign modernist literature on the same critical plane. While the former analyzes narrative irony in Ján Hrušovski’s novel and Stefan Grabiński’s novellas, the latter compares the poetry of Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer with the poetry of Ivan Franko. Aleksandra Kołodziejczyk considers Russian literature, focusing on Alexander Blok’s poetry. In her article, Jolanta Dragańska points to the historiosophical variant of irony in Amelia Hertzówna’s works. Marcin Bajko draws our attention to Stanisław Ludwik Liciński’s proclivity to irony. The irony of Wacław Berent’s prose comes under scrutiny in the article by Wojciech Gruchała, who critically re-interprets Ozimina. Jarosław Ławski discovers a modality of irony in the workings of Tadeusz Miciński. The articles gathered in the present volume demonstrate the historical, European and Polish contexts and provenances of modernist irony. They discuss the presence of self-irony in the works analyzed, as well as the links between irony and grotesque and tragedy. As a result, modernist irony comes to be perceived both in its significance and uniqueness. Irony of Modernists is the fruit of the First Conference “The Young Poland Movement: Revisions and Re-Interpretations,” which took place on 12 and 13 May 2017 in Białystok, and which was organized by the Chair in Philological Studies ‘East-West,’ the University of Białystok; the Chair in the History of the Literature of Polish Positivism and the Young Poland Movement, the Jagiellonian University; and the Scholarly Section of the Łukasz Górnicki Library in Białystok. The Conference proceedings were coordinated by Urszula M. Pilch, PhD (the Jagiellonian University), Marcin Bajko, PhD (the University of Białystok), and Professor Jarosław Ławski (the University of Białystok). The Conference venue was the Łukasz Górnicki Library in Białystok. The next conference in the same series will take place in Ocober 2018 and will be occasioned by the centenary of the death of Tadeusz Miciński (1876–1918), a notable Polish modernist writer. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/9991 Tytuł: Panel: Młoda Polska / modernizm. Zapoznane wymiary estetyki: ironia Abstrakt: The text is a typescript of the panel discussion on the role of irony in the poetics and ideological stance of the Young Poland Movement and European modernism. Among the participants there were Professor Gabriela Matuszek (The Jagiellonian University), Professor Wiesław Rzońca (The University of Warsaw), Professor Anna Janicka (The University of Białystok), Professor Dorota Wojda (The Jagiellonian University), Professor Hanna Ratuszna (The Nicolaus Copernicus University), and Doctor Aleksandra Kołodziejczak (The University of Białystok). The discussion pointed to the necessity of rereading and reinterpretation of such elements of modernist aesthetics and world view as irony, sarcasm, absurd, grotesque, tragic grotesque, and tragedy. As it was emphasized, the Polish modernist literature needs to be reconsidered in the context Slavic literatures, and, more generally, in the context of Central and East European cultures. Opis: Białystok, Książnica Podlaska, 13 maja 2017 roku – prowadzą: Urszula M. Pilch, Marcin Bajko, Jarosław Ławski 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/9990 Tytuł: Wizerunek ironisty w Topieli Stanisława Przybyszewskiego Autorzy: Grajek, Marek Abstrakt: Text of the article presents irony as one of the most important, yet omitted, keys of interpretation in the study of Stanislaw Przybyszewski's works. First, the paper discusses types of irony present in the writer's drama titled „Topiel”. Then, the figure of the drama's main ironist, Robert Skalski, is presented along with various ways the other characters, victims of his irony, react to him (laughter, self-irony, withdrawal, escapism). The author proves that Skalski, the aforementioned villain, not only negates and destroys the values of the petty-bourgeois world, but also, through the irony he uses, devalues language of those who inhabit the milieu. Such construction of the work enables the character to be treated as a predecessor of postmodern ironic subjectivity. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/9989 Tytuł: W klubie konstrukcjonalistów. Strategie autotematyczne we wczesnej prozie Karola Irzykowskiego i Romana Jaworskiego Autorzy: Szulik, Weronika Abstrakt: The aim of this article is to show how strategies of self-reference in early papers of Karol Irzykowski and Roman Jaworski influence on each other in stories like Silent Amor (Amor milczący), Fanfaron by Jaworski and What is Horla? (Czym jest Horla) and Dreams of Maria Dunin (Sny Marii Dunin) by Irzykowski. Authors lived and worked in Lviv, were debating in the Club of Constructionsts – official assosiation of enthusiasts of continiuity in the art. Through revelation of themselves in their narratives they can build aesthetic programs so they papers became specific manifestos of the new approach to the art and also to a reader. They create positions of the writer as an ironist who expresses himself and impairs his authority, keeping the reader in constatly insecurity so he can produce his own meanings. Irony do not allow the sense to conventionalize. Both ideas had one common source but they evolved to the two different programmes: Irzykowski believed that the construction had its own meaning and was cultural symbol but Jaworski underlined nessesity to break with current aestetic and common readers. 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z