'THE EARTH'S BOUNTY: A FISHERMEN'S LEGEND': LUDWIK MARIA STAFF'S LAST DRAMA AND ITS ARTISTIC AFFINITIES

• Authors: Fazan K.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

'The Earth's Bounty: A Fishermen's Legend' was published by Wilhelm Feldmann in the Cracow periodical Krytyka in 1914, the year of its young author's death. Recently it was republished in an anthology of Ludwik Maria Staff's selected works in the series Library of the Young Poland Poetry. Ludwik Maria Staff, younger brother of the celebrated Leopold Staff, is known primarily for his 'Zgrzebna kantyczka' (Homespun Canticle), a volume of poems published in 1922. Rescued from oblivion, 'The Earth's Bounty' gives the contemporary reader an important insight into the character of its modernist author. This atmospheric one-act drama shows signs of having been inspired by Maeterlinck and the Irish symbolists with their stylized folklore themes. The analysis presented in this article shows that 'The Earth's Bounty' is influenced both by the Romantic ballad tradition and the turn-of-the-century Symbolist dramas.

Keywords

EN

POLISH DRAMA (EARLY 20TH C.); STAFF LUDWIK MARIA.; STYLIZED FOLK LEGEND; YOUNG POLAND MODERNISM

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 4-5
• Pages: 455-470
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Fazan K.

• K. Fazan, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Katedra Teatru, ul. Golebia 14, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA05445