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The aim of the paper is to analyse the transformations of the forms of late medieval folk piety in Germany and Netherlands. Two types of late medieval religious expression were distinguished: the so called extraverted piety, being a ritualised form faith, and the devotio moderna movement as instantiated by the mysticism of Meister Eckhart. By using the passages from The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, De theologia mistica by Jacobus de Paradiso and Theologia Germanica both types of piety were presented as preparing the ground for the Reformation.
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The article presents issues of the second part of Pieśni sobie śpiewane (‘Songs Sung to Oneself’), the only poetic volume by Konstancja Bienisławska (1747–1806), a poet living in the former Polish Livonia area. I hope to prove that Marian poetry presented by Benisławska is an original phenomenon on the literary map of Poland of those times. Uniqueness of Marian texts of Pieśni sobie śpiewane, collected under the name of Pozdrowienie anielskie na pieśni rozłożone (‘An angel’s greeting divided into songs’), lies in its poetic interpretation of theological discussions of that time and in the original adaptation of Marian literary patterns. As a result, the poet creates a surprising image of Virgin Mary who is shown as an autonomous and causative figure, contrary to the official christocentric perspective in literature and theology.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the religious model present in „Songs Sung to Oneself” by Konstancja Benisławska, an eighteenth-century poet from Polish Livonia. Benisławska’s work, interpreted by Marek Prejs as a „manifestation of conscious historicism”, has not yet received research focusing on its possible Baroque sources and inspirations, among which the penitential elegy popular in the 17th century was undoubtedly present. The genre in which the lyrical ego assumes the costume of David’s penitential attitude, is characterized by penetrating contents contained in existential anxiety and high temperature of the emotions while stressing such traits as the impermanence and ridicule of human intentions. These elements also appear in Benisławska’s work. Therefore, the poet’s work can be perceived as a continuation of the tradition of penitential elegy, present mainly in the texts of seventeenth-century poets, as: Kasper Miaskowski, Wacław Potocki or Wespazjan Kochowski.
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The aim of the paper is to analyse the Trędowata by Helena Mniszek from the angle of the Polish novel about love – a kind of literature developed in the age of modernism. First, the constitutive elements of Mniszek’s work (playing part in commercial success of the book) are distinguished. Next, the main characters of Trędowata are analysed from the wide methodological perspective which allows to recognize them as representations of cultural archetypes as well as of Greimasian structural functions. Finally, the paper takes up the question of socio-anthropological background of mass culture and focuses on some social problems connected with the popularity of the literature instantiated by Trędowata.
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