Panel. „Nowe idee w badaniach nad romantyzmem i wiekiem XIX” Białystok, 6–7 maja 2016

Abstract

The presented text is a record of the panel which accompanied the National Academic Conference “Król-Duch by Juliusz Słowacki. Text – history of reading – interpretations – comparative contexts”. It was organised on the “170th Anniversary of the Publication of the First Rhapsody (1847–2017)” in Białystok on 6–7 May 2016. It was the first ever session exclusively about this work by Słowacki; it was organised at the initiative of Białystok researchers, but in cooperation with the Warsaw academic community. The subject of discussion during the panel were new methodological tendencies, which in the 21st century accompany the reflection on Słowacki’s King-Spirit, but also the whole literature of Polish and European Romanticism. The inspirations of such methodologies as ecocriticism, biographics, criticism of affect, feminism, and post-humanism were pointed out. Researchers paid particular attention to the issues of modern editing, especially the question of how to publish fragmentary Romantic works, such as Słowacki’s poem. A separate issue that interested the participants in the discussion was the need to revise and re-evaluate the canon of authors and Romantic texts in different national cultures. In the culture of Polish Romanticism, this extension would primarily concern writers from the eastern – Ukrainian, Belarusian and Lithuanian – lands of the former Commonwealth. During the panel, Professor Michał Kuziak from the University of Warsaw also presented the concept of a new series devoted to Romantic literature called “Studia Romantyczne”.