Ironia romantyczna a początki ironii typu modernistycznego – Kierkegaard i Norwid

Abstract

The article describes the relations between the romantic and the modernist irony. The crucial differences between these two types can be demonstrated by taking as examples the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and Cyprian Kamil Norwid. And with one proviso: namely, that we agree that the irony of Norwid is closer to the modernist type than to the romantic one. The whole argument is embedded, first, in the context of German romanticism (e.g. F. Schlegel), which recognized the paramount importance of irony; and, second, in the most recent, postmodernist frame of reference. Treating the common perception of Norwid’s irony as ‘romantic’ with a pinch of salt, the author argues for the positivistic undertones of thereof.