Search results for "Adam Mickiewicz"
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Mickiewiczowska głębia "miejsca". Wertykalny charakter Soplicowa
2020
The shape of a circle, with its midpoint or centre, is one of the spatial images lying at the basis of many of the lyrical poems written by Adam Mickiewicz, including The Vision, Defend Me from Myself..., The Akkerman Steppes, Spin Love…, To Flee with My Love onto a Leaf [Leaves]... The motif of a circular shape with a clearly defined centre also appears in Master Thaddeus, and in Forefathers’ Eve. Mickiewicz the poet structures his works around the imagery of a circle and its centre to convey metaphorically what is of value to Mickiewicz the man. His ‘centric’ thinking puts the poet in the centre of an ontological, metaphysical vision of the cosmos, right in the centre, at the very core of…
Problematyczne potomstwo "Pana Tadeusza" : wokół pewnego tekstu rocznicowego
2018
Progeny of “Sir Thaddeus” (1897), a less known essay by literary critic Cezary Jellenta [Napoleon Hirszband], presents an interesting attempt to discern and estimate novels of the 19th century Polish realists as originated from the great Mickiewicz’s poem. According to Jellenta, there are several social, national or aesthetic parallels existing between this famous epic work – a kind of architext and paradigm of Polish culture in general – and the well-known texts by Prus, Orzeszkowa, Sienkiewicz, Konopnicka or Witkiewicz, as well the unknown novel of Galician writer Alfred Nossig. Jellenta’s discourse and his often vague argumentation are involved both in traditional apology for Mickiewicz’…