Traktaty pedagogiczne Honoraty z Wiśniowskich Zapovej i Klementyny z Tańskich Hoffmanowej – inspiracja czy przeróbka?

• Authors: Fournier Kiss Corinne

Title variants

EN

The Pedagogical Treatises of Honorata Zapová Born Wiśniowska and Klementyna Hoffmanowa Born Tańska

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

As is well known, the long-lasting influence in Poland of Hoffmanowa’s conservative pedagogical treatise "Keepsake of a Good Mother" (1819) was criticized by more progressive Polish women writers of the 19th century, such as Narcyza Żmichowska and Eliza Orzeszkowa. But the unexpected success of that book in other Slav countries later in the 19th century, especially in Bohemia, is less well known. Honorata Zapová born Wiśniowska (1825-1856), a member of the Galician Polish szlachta who moved to Prague after her marriage in 1841 to the Czech writer Karel Vladislav Zap, has been recently exhumed as a Czech writer by Czech and Polish literary criticism: apart from her essays in Czech journals on her native country, much emphasis has been laid on the value of her most important work, "Nezabudky, dar našim pannám" (published in 1859), which was the first book of pedagogy dedicated to the instruction of young women in Bohemia. In her preface to this book, Zapová mentions Hoffmanowa as being one of her many sources of inspiration. Wishing to know more about what exactly Zapová owes to Hoffmanowa, in this article I compare Hoffmanowa’s book of pedagogy with Zapová’s. I am astonished to discover that Zapová’s book is in fact an almost literal translation from Polish to Czech of "Keepsake of a Good Mother" – in other words, that it is a plagiarism of Hoffmanowa’s book. The main question I ask here is: why did no one until now, either in 19th-century criticism or in our contemporary criticism, mention this literary fraud before?

Keywords

PL

Klementyna z Tańskich Hoffmanowa; Honorata z Wiśniowskich Zapova; traktat pedagogiczny; plagiat

EN

Klementyna Hoffmanowa born Tańska; Honorata Zapová born Wiśniowska; pedagogical treatise; plagiarism

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski / Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Napis. Pismo poświęcone literaturze okolicznościowej i użytkowej
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 19
• Pages: 385-397

Contributors

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Fournier Kiss Corinne

• Instytut Języka i Literatury Francuskiej, Uniwersytet w Bernie