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Two important nineteenth-century books whose subject is a trip to Italy are the subject matter of this article. They are considered to be a model of how travelling was perceived at that time both as a real experience and as its record. But the analysis of various author’s textual strategies enables to observe the difficulty in finding homogeneous travel narrative. “The dilemma of travel” is a metaphor of modern man’s confrontation with cultural past.
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The article aims to present the complexity of Bolesław Prus’s reflection on collective and individual freedom in the context of the 1905 events. In Children the authordepicts the paradox of the situation, political enslavement generates the obligation to fight for freedom on terms and conditions which are independent of those who must take up the struggle. A kind of distance towards the fate of Poland and the possibility of choosing one’s own attitude to life are hard to find in the world of Prus’s protagonists. The writer’s diagnoses correspond to the greatest questions concerning the identity of Central Europe.
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The present article analyses selected critical texts by Walery Gostomski, in which the terms ‘tragedy’/‘pathos’/‘drama’ are used in order to refer to the most significant, according to Gostomski, authors of ethical projects i.e. Friedrich Nietzsche and Leo Tolstoy. The abovementioned terms are employed by the critic according to the rules of the epoch, which means they are used interchangeably and therefore their ambivalence is attested. The abuse of the synonyms of ‘tragedy’, which both emphasizes its value and at the same time downgrades it, led to the aforementioned ambivalence. The contradictions in Nietzsche and Tolstoy’s thoughts shown in Gostomski’s texts prove for the critic the crisis of contemporary culture and destabilization of its components. References to ‘tragedy’/ ‘pathos’/‘drama’ on the one hand help to illustrate conceptual and axiological chaos and on the other, they stand as counterbalance to it, as they recall the criteria of world order as well as of verifying the quality of human experience all vested in the tradition.
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The subject of the article is a volume of poetry Kwiatki polne (1884), written by Maciej Józef Brodowicz, a renowned Krakovian physician, who at the age of ninety-four published autobiographical poems. The main theme in most of them is old age understood as existential experience and a biographical circumstance, justifying the attempts to synthesize the author’s life in the form of verse. Two reviews of the volume by Lucjan Siemieński and Stanisław Tarnowski constitute the context for reading his poems. The reviews also bring up the question of old age as an essential component of the language of the critique itself, allowing to fill the gap originating from the lack of more precise and appropriate criteria for the analysis of conventional poems.
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The article proposes a new reading of Album biograficzne zasłużonych Polaków i Polek wieku XIX (1901–1903) [Biographic album of distinguished nineteenth-century Polish men and women (1901–1903)]. It is proven that this collection of characteristically designed biographies and an unusual collective biography is an important work of Polish humanities of the turn of the twentieth century that can be placed in relation to both Thomas Carlyle’s hero concept and Jacob Burckhardt’s postulates of the ‘anthropologisation of history’. The three selected biograms (Klaudyna Potocka’s by Aleksander Kraushar, August Hiacynt Dziarkowski’s by Józef Peszke and Adolf Pawiński’s by Jan Karol Kochanowski) are case studies allowing for the reconstruction of the dilemmas and text strategies each time specifying the biographer’s unique workshop and the techniques of uncovering it.  
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The article proposes a new reading of Album biograficzne zasłużonych Polaków i Polek wieku XIX (1901–1903) [Biographic album of distinguished nineteenth-century Polish men and women (1901–1903)]. It is proven that this collection of characteristically designed biographies and an unusual collective biography is an important work of Polish humanities of the turn of the twentieth century that can be placed in relation to both Thomas Carlyle’s hero concept and Jacob Burckhardt’s postulates of the ‘anthropologisation of history’. The three selected biograms (Klaudyna Potocka’s by Aleksander Kraushar, August Hiacynt Dziarkowski’s by Józef Peszke and Adolf Pawiński’s by Jan Karol Kochanowski) are case studies allowing for the reconstruction of the dilemmas and text strategies each time specifying the biographer’s unique workshop and the techniques of uncovering it.
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The article analyses the mode of establishing and recording the process of poetry valuation in Zarys literatury polskiej z ostatnich lat szesnastu [An outline of the literature of the last sixteen years] written by Piotr Chmielowski, as well as the textual strategies of the author that modeled the transformations in the discourse of the author. It is proved in the article that in the Chmielowski’s disquisitions the problem of evaluation is just as important as the evaluation as a problem. The evaluation of poetry conducted by the critic was an element of self-identification of the generation of ”young poets” that he himself represented, as well as a proof for their longing for grand poetry, discomfort resulting from lack of authority figures and difficulties in expressing one’s own or/and national suffering. The use of the so-called ”argument of poetry” has been recognized here as a distinctive feature of Chmielowski’s idiolect that serves to dynamize his critical writings.
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The article presents deliberations on the rules of problematisation of the dissertation, introducing critical texts collected in an anthology and a selection thereof. Attention has been paid to the arguments confirming the culture-forming impact of Zarys literatury polskiej z ostatnich lat szesnastu by Piotr Chmielowski, the issues related to the Positivist breakthrough and the related changes in his worldview. Another discussed topic is the criteria and strategies in the 19th century polemics.
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The paper presents an early literary critical reception of 'Zygmunt August', a trilogy by Lucjan Rydel. The analysis includes, above all, reviews whose subject is a literary work as whole, rather than its particular sections. It has been proven that critical remarks on Rydel’s work could be included in the discussion on the possibilities and needs of the Polish historical drama. The most essential problems of the text revolve around the difficulties connected with finding the right assessment and description criteria of Rydel’s work by professional readers. They were situated either against the pattern of national drama, or it was qualified as a popular drama. Some crucial discrepancies related to ‘measure,’ according to which Rydel’s work should be evaluated, also appeared, depending on whether it was treated as a drama or ‘performance.’
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In this paper, the author reconstructs a critical‑literary discussion, which took place in 1888 after the release of the monograph devoted to Jan Kochanowski by Stanisław Tarnowski. It was an attempt at combining previous findings on the biography and work of the Renaissance poet. Reading the most important critical statements evoked by Tarnowski’s book made it possible to characterise an important state of research into Kochanowski’s work and indicate essential problematic issues (religious matters, ‘the Ronsard question’, the case of Kochanowski’s artistic creativity, assessing the advancement of knowledge about his works), which in the 19th century were regarded as arguable, unresolved or demanding a particular cognitive effort. The authors in those days, thanks to their joint effort, managedto determine the scope of issues which would be investigated by researchers in the following years.
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This paper focuses on the letters (starting in 1907) that Maria Komornicka addressed to her mother, written from the psychiatric and mental institutions where she was confined. Notably, in these writings the first-person voice is a male subject. The important experience which this epistolary reflects is the rejection of the mental illness as a social construction which can define the author’s identity. The present article examines the narrative self, self-modalities and identity, and how the author writes the self to refuse and fight against the imposed, attributed disease. Among the key themes which will be explored are: an epistolary record documenting the conditions and contexts of the author’s opposition to clinical isolation, misunderstanding and uncertainty as essential components of anti-diagnostic discourse, linguistic strategies to invalidate the practices of exclusion and medicalization, and creativity and healing through letter-writing.
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