WACLAW BOROWY'S REVALUATIONS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

• Authors: Markiewicz H
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In his assessments of literary merit Waclaw Borowy (1890-1950), one of the great figures of Polish history of literature, employed - with some qualifications - a set of three criteria, ie. Thematic universality, representativeness vis-a-vis contemporary reality, and vividness of expression. His judgements have and made a lasting impact on subsequent literary historiography and, by and large, continue to hold sway in the field of 18th-century poetry, especially in the critical reception of Konstancja Benislawska, Elzbieta Druzbacka and Franciszek Dionizy Kniaznin, and to lesser extent in the criticism of Adam Naruszewicz and Ignacy Krasicki. Elsewhere, his damning judgment on Adolf Dygasinski has proved final, and his summing-up of Stanisław Wyspianski as 'a great poet who was not a great writer' has worked as an effective inspiration to a number of later critics. While Borowy's account of the 'strengths and weaknesses' of Stefan Zeromski (especialły his early work) has become part of the general consensus, his disparaging view of Krasicki's 'Monachomachia' or Franciszek Zablocki's comedies, 'Fantazy' and 'Pharaoh', has found hardly any support.

Keywords

EN

BOROWY WACLAW; LITERARY EVALUATION'S CRITERIA; POLISH LITERATURE'S HISTORY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: The Kraków Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 6(291)
• Pages: 573-590
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Markiewicz H

• H. Markiewicz, c/o Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydzial Polonistyki, ul. Golebia 16, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA059910