The presented interpretation of Andrzej Muszyński’s Podkrzywdzie constitutes an attempt at situating the work in the perspective of its references to some determinants of Bruno Schulz’s poet ics and his literary worldview, especially to the concept of mythologization of the represented world and the linguistic practices, referring to the consistent stylization which has its roots in the fiction of the author of The Cinnamon Shops. The proposed intertextual reading leads to the conclusion about the creative restitution of Schulz’s model, while at the same time enabling one to inscribe Muszyński’s novel debut, mythographic creation of Podkrzywdzie in the literary trend of “small homelands,” unex pectedly reviving in the second decade of the 21st century.
This paper aims at a synthetic presentation of four representative research practices in the first stage of postcolonial studies concerned with Polish literature of the Romantic period. This is currently one of the key tools utilised in the studies of Polish Romanticism, which proved to offer a considerable scope for revisions, especially with regard to the myth of the Borderlands and Messianism, thus enabling major Romantic ideologies and myths to be redefined in terms of identity. An analysis of research discourses reveals the shortcomings and benefits of the postcolonial method when employed in the studies of Polish Romanticism. On the one hand, an all too rigid application of the tools has led to certain interpretive simplifications of Romantic texts, while on the other the authors of the discussed works were able to conceptualize the identities of Polish Romantic literature anew.
The article analyses two dramas by Jarosław Jakubowski: Dożynki and Nowy Legion (New legion), which their author designed as attempts at updating the political frame of Mickiewicz’s Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve), (especially ‘Warsaw salon’), read in the context of the ‘Smoleńsk romanticism.’ The right-wing approach to Mickiewicz’s archdrama offers a diagnosis of the social and political divide (‘two Poland’) in the aspect of the clash between two worldviews: left-wing and liberal versus right-wing. Mickiewicz’s authority is supposed to strengthen the right-wing diagnoses, hence it is easy to spot the numerous attempts at instrumental and anachronic reading of the romantic legacy. At the same time, the analysed dramas show the importance and the textual and ideological productivity of the romantic paradigm.
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