Czarownica w literaturze polskiego oświecenia. Stereotyp i płeć

• Authors: Kowalewska, Danuta

Title variants

PL

Witch in Polish Enlightenment Literature. Stereotype and Sex

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on the image of witches in the iconography, literature, and imagination of the inhabitants of Early Modern Europe (from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment). It endeavours to explain whether the role and function of magical figures in Early Modern literature is conditioned by gender and by the conviction that magic is related to the biological functions of women. I will also attempt to determine how the stereotype of the witch emerged and whether its function in literaturę was influenced by the changed relations between the sexes in the 18th century. Although the main area of interest are works in Polish, numerous references to foreign literature are also made.

Keywords

EN

witchcraft; witch; magic; Enlightenment; woman; misogyny; czarownictwo; czarownica; magia; oświecenie; kobieta; mizoginizm

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 4

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Kowalewska, Danuta

other

Dr hab. prof. UMK, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Wydział Filologiczny, Zakład Literatury Oświecenia, ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3, 87–100 Toruń

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/20850

DOI

10.18778/1505-9057.34.06