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History of Polish Diarism – Selected Contexts

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Garbula J. M.

Biuletyn Historii Wychowania

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2022

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vol. 46

7-21

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In this article, I raise issues connected with the history of Polish diary writing since the Middle Ages until the early 20th century. I discuss the process and directions of establishing diary writing a separate branch of historical literature. Texts of historical nature (memoirs or diaries) were referred to by their authors as stories, notes of events, diaries or a course of life. Their origin can be traced back to medieval chronicles describing events that involved the Polish nation, in which the authors shyly included scattered and miniscule autobiographical mentions. Diary writing in Poland began to assume shape as a genre at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. There was a growing number of diaries in which the reality was described with a bias. This was a manifestation of the specific ‘zeitgeist’: the commonplace belief in the historical importance and meaning of the events witnessed or attended by the author, making them worth describing for future generations. Owing to vivid and expressive historical accounts, the 17th century expansive growth of diary writing entered the realm of fine literature. The 18th century brought changes in the methodology of historical sciences, as reflected by the prevalence of memoirs over diaries, and the perception of a memoir as a form of autobiography. The development of diary writing at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries was associated with surmounting the limitations of the class system and the emergence of a modern nation as a socio-cultural structure. In this historical setting, plebeian diaries, authored by ordinary people, were gaining in popularity. Diaries were written by representatives of all classes and social strata, be it aristocracy, urban-based intelligentsia originating from nobility, peasants or workers. In the first half of the 20th century, in addition to diaries written by individuals, practised for centuries, the way was paved for mass diary writing. Writing plebeian diaries was encouraged by scholars and editors of journals. At the same time, an institution of collective and competition diary writing emerged, in which the attitude to history was similar to that advocated by representatives of the Annales schools, namely history seen in connection with everyday life.

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Tylko dzienniki. Diarystyka kobieca jako przedmiot badań w Polsce i za granicą

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Kolinko E.

Przegląd Humanistyczny

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2016

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vol. 60(4 (455))

137-150

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The article presents the most important research perspective regarding women’s and girls’ diary writing in English, French and Polish. The analysis discusses major works on the women’s autobiographical writing, monographs and collective works on diaries. Contrary to appearances, at the beginning the autobiographical turn in the feminist criticism did not include the diaries written by girls and women – as paraliterary, imperfect texts. On the fringes of the feminist interest in diaries were the French studies (including Philippe Lejeune, the most outstanding researcher in this subject) and still rudimentary studies in Poland. The lack of interest in the Polish personal diaries, it seems, results from the lack of bibliographic studies and an extensive editorial project, which would disclose a great number of texts of significant value for our diary writing hidden in the archives.

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Saksonia i Saksończycy w świetle pamięci o uniach polsko-saskich w wybranych relacjach pamiętnikarskich Polaków z pierwszej połowy XIX wieku

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Grzęda E.

Tematy i Konteksty

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2019

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vol. 14

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issue 9

294-306

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This present paper is an attempt to trace the reception of the Polish-Saxon relations (in a polonized Polish-Saxon version) in the first half of the nineteenth century, recorded in selected memoirs and epistolary notes from that period. The point of reference in this case is the historical personal unions between Poland and Saxony, i.e. the history of political relations. The basic subject of the analysis are the interpersonal relations between Poles and Saxons in the post-partition period, at a time when there were about 10,000 Poles in Saxony seeking asylum after leaving the Polish lands during the November Uprising, and the ways of taming the space characterized by the signs of the common political past. The memory of Polish-Saxon personal unions seems to have made it easier for Poles to adapt to the new social and even linguistic situation. As it appears, the interest of Poles in Saxony at that time was not only limited to seeking political asylum, but also had a tourist and cognitive dimension. Poles discoverd Saxon Switzerland and learned how to do mountain tourism before going to their native Tatra Mountains. The basis for this paper is a selection of accounts and diaries of Andrzej Edward Koźmian, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Klementyna Hoffmanowa nee Tańska, Juliusz Słowacki’s correspondence and Stanisław Deszert’s manuscript journal.

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Frontové linie, linie textu. Deník Władysława Broniewského (1918–1921)

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Chmurski M.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

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2018

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vol. 15

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issue 30

28-39

EN

This article discusses the war diary of controversial Polish poet Władysław Broniewski (1897–1962) during his participation in conflicts against Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and the USSR, from 1918 to 1921. Approaching auto/biographical studies from the perspective of anthropological practice, we can interpret Broniewski’s diary as a patchwork of contradictory ethical and political viewpoints rooted in the clichés and stereotypes of 19th c. Polish literature. From the progressive inclusion of a colonial discourse that legitimizes Polish military expansion to the East, to the role of traumatizing war violence, we find a Broniewski searching hesitatingly for new literary inspiration, in affirming — yet contradictory — formulations. This reveals the genealogy of his growing engagement with communism, as well as the difficulties of surpassing the mythical stereotype of ‘borderlands’ (Kresy) as crucial to the idea of Polishness.

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Z Komborni do Gręboszowa. Stanisław Pigoń i Jakub Bojko

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Koziara S.

Studia Pigoniana

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2021

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vol. 4

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issue 4

9-23

EN

The paper is an attempt at adding several remarks and comments to what is already known about the artistic profile, as well as writing and research techniques applied by Stanisław Pigoń. Its basic idea is to outline certain literary similarities between the author of Z Komborni w świat and Jakub Bojko, a generation older writer and a man of the people from Gręboszów, a village in the Małopolska region. Starting with more or less explicit data in Stanisław Pigoń’s works, the author of the paper observed some genological, ideological and formal-linguistic levels in terms of those literary parallels in the works of both writers. According to the author, the collected data, as well as conclusions reached on their basis, could prove contributive to a better recognition of Stanisław Pigoń’s artistic profile and achievements. Moreover, it may be a starting point to an urgent and comprehensive study into the idiolects of both Stanisław Pigoń and Jakub Bojko, his spiritual ancestor.

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Artykuł jest próbą zgłoszenia kilku uwag i dopowiedzeń do istniejącego stanu wiedzy na temat sylwetki twórczej oraz tajników warsztatu pisarskiego i badawczego Stanisława Pigonia. Zasadniczy zamysł opracowania skupia się na zarysowym ukazaniu pewnych linii powinowactw piśmiennictwa autora Z Komborni w świat z o całe pokolenie starszym pisarzem i trybunem ludowym, Jakubem Bojką, rodem z małopolskiej wsi Gręboszów. Wychodząc od mniej lub bardziej eksplicytnie zawartych danych w pismach Stanisława Pigonia, polem obserwacji owych paralel twórczych autor artykułu uczynił niektóre genologiczne, ideowe oraz formalno-językowe płaszczyzny pisarstwa obydwu postaci. W opinii autora zgromadzone dane oraz wyprowadzone na ich podstawie wnioski mogą stanowić przyczynek tak do lepszego rozpoznania sylwetki i dokonań twórczych wielkiego syna ziemi krośnieńskiej, jak też stanowić zalążek do pilnego i całościowego opracowania idiolektu tak Stanisława Pigonia, jaki i też jego duchowego antenata – Jakuba Bojki.

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History of Polish Diarism – Selected Contexts

Tylko dzienniki. Diarystyka kobieca jako przedmiot badań w Polsce i za granicą

Saksonia i Saksończycy w świetle pamięci o uniach polsko-saskich w wybranych relacjach pamiętnikarskich Polaków z pierwszej połowy XIX wieku

Frontové linie, linie textu. Deník Władysława Broniewského (1918–1921)

Z Komborni do Gręboszowa. Stanisław Pigoń i Jakub Bojko