Panel: Młoda Polska / modernizm. Zapoznane wymiary estetyki: ironia

Abstract

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.