http://hdl.handle.net/11320/11663 2026-06-01T18:16:30Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/11705 Tytuł: O niezasadności pojęcia „polski romantyzm krajowy” Autorzy: Dworak, Anna Marta Abstrakt: The article opens with an observation that the notion of “Polish national Romanticism” seems invalid and of little use. Any attempt to classify a given author as either home‑based or emigrant is problematic due to the difficulties with finding a suitable criterion for making such a distinction. It appears that neither the author’s place of residence nor the place of publication of a particular work offers a solution to the problem. Furthermore, it is highly debatable to talk about one national literature, as it was not universal but divided into different schools and region dependent. The article focuses upon two theses: firstly, national literature was not always written in the country; and secondly, Poland failed to function as a country (in political and administrative terms) in the first half of the nineteenth century. In the second part of the article, the author postulates to introduce additional terms. i.e. “national circulation of literature” and “emigrant circulation of literature”, being, however, aware that these circuits were not closed but open and interwoven with each other. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/11704 Tytuł: Dylematy romantycznego regionalizmu. Wokół recepcji Pana Tadeusza Adama Mickiewicza Autorzy: Dąbrowska, Danuta Abstrakt: The subject of my discussion is the Romantic regional discourse, exemplified by the reception of Pan Tadeusz (Sir Thaddeus) by Adam Mickiewicz. Polish Romantic poets, both in their manifestos and literary works, address the issues related to the discovery and valorization of particular geographic regions of former Poland. However, other voices, perceiving regionalism as a threat to the unity of Poland given its political situation, are also expressed. A solution is often found in emphasizing the idea of unity of the country while observing that individual regions are parts of Poland as a whole. Pan Tadeusz is prevailingly interpreted as an expression of a quintessentially Polish, rather than Lithuanian, reality. National, social and religious differences between individual regions are blurred, as Romantic and Post‑Romantic literature situates Poland in the centre. The perspective of the Romantics who see the regions as autonomous and yet belonging to Poland is possible to discuss in terms of contemporary postcolonial discourse. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/11703 Tytuł: Przebudzenie regionów: nieromantyczny regionalizm dum Tomasza Zana i Jana Czeczota Autorzy: Stankiewicz‑Kopeć, Monika Abstrakt: In 1817 there emerged an important sociological phenomenon, justified by the political situation in the former Republic of Poland. In several different cities (Vilnius, Lviv, Krzemieniec and Warsaw) young people formed informal groups of literary and social character. The fact that these groups, centered around universities, schools or editorial boards, were established in a few cities at the same time is an evidence of significant social and ideological transformations. One of the most important of these groups were the Philomaths of Vilnius, who can be seen as the first Polish modern organization of young people aware of their own generational and regional differences. Their generation contributed significantly to the ideological and cultural ferment, which not only gave rise to Polish Romanticism, but also refreshed other “non‑romantic” cultural movements (Classicism and Sentimentalism) and established their regional varieties. This paper examines the Romantic breakthrough and literature written before the November Uprising of 1830 from the perspective of minor writers, Tomasz Zan and Jan Czeczot. Focusing on their Neo‑Sentimental dumas allows us to emphasize the heterogeneity and pluralism of this transition period, thus moving away from perceiving the pre‑1830 literature, especially written in Mickiewicz’s circle (Vilnius–Kaunas), as a steady progression of the dominant Romantic trend while ignoring and devaluing other literary phenomena. This paper argues that an integrating factor for the Philomaths of Vilnius was not so much a quest for Romanticism, but a kind of regionalism, at the time more frequently expressed in its “non‑romantic”, mainly Sentimentalist and Neo‑Sentimentalist, form. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/11702 Tytuł: Tumult wileński A. D. 1639. Wokół powieści Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego Kościół Świętomichalski w Wilnie Autorzy: Lul, Marcin Abstrakt: Street riots of the year 1639 between Calvinists and Catholics in a multi‑religious Vilnius, known in historiography as the tumult of Vilnius, and its epilogue at the Sejm of Warsaw in 1640, have been widely commented and discussed by historians. Kraszewski’s novel also refers to this issue and presents nineteenth-century readers the heroes of this incident, both individual figures and urban crowd. The writer refers to source documents and traces the urban narrative immersed in a particular space, in the lives of the former residents of Vilnius, and in the history of their home. Passages from the source documents included in the book do not only play a historical role, they can also be used to analyze the mentality of the previous generations presented in an informal way. Mental structures, which have been set as a motto of this article, rely on constant interference of supernatural reality into the earthy matters. However, this happens differently than in Dziady by Mickiewicz. It is not the influence of angles on “human thoughts and actions” that determines human ability to create, or moral assessment of human deeds. In the book by Kraszewski, those are worldly systems of power and human passions, metaphorically represented by an arrow in the leg St. Michael that shape religious ideas and refer human of “flesh” to the transcendent realm of angels and demons slipping out of their feet. In addition, they influence on the course of earthly things (the war of words, populist religious indoctrination). Sacred architectural design of the church of St. Michael becomes a symbolic and physical background of the plot. Thus this sets our imagination in the space that is perceived and utilized here and now. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z