Full Description
The book contains essays on the heterogeneity of Polish Romantic literature and its links with Europe's cultural heritage. The essays deal with, among other topics, the idea of beauty and truth, correspondences between the arts, the role of tradition and memory in the Romantic era, and the significance of mysticism and irony. The authors of the essays write about such seemingly distant issues as music and revolution in Chopin's times, and travel to places as disparate as Siberia and Italy. Their thematically diverse reflections are linked by questions they pose about the romantic roots of today's Europe. The works of Mickiewicz and other Romantic poets discussed in this book thus clearly do not concern merely the past, but also speak to the present day, describing the experiences of everyday life in its various dimensions.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Elżbieta Nowicka
Music in Romantic Literature and Criticism - Approximations
Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska
Shakespeare of the Polish Romantics
Wojciech Hamerski
Irony as a 'Centrifugal Force of Disincarnations' in Polish Romanticism
Krzysztof TrybuśMemory Instead of History: Mickiewicz, Słwacki, Norwid
Jerzy Fiećo
The Views of Mickiewicz and Krasińki on Russia
Zbigniew Przychodniak
Princess Trubecka in a Siberian Hell. A Dialogue Between Three
European Poets. (With the Participation of Dante)
Elżieta Lijewska
A Duet to Democracy. Cyprian Norwid -Alexis de Tocqueville
Mirella KryśBeauty and Truth in Cyprian Norwid's Italian Novellas
Arkadiusz Krawczyk
Italian Renaissance Art in Teofil Lenartowicz's Literary and Visual
Creative Output: A Case Study
Dagmara Nowakowska
India and the History of Slavdom in Mickiewicz's Paris Lectures
Lidia Banowska
Miłosz's Mickiewicz as a Mystical Poet
Index of names
