In an interview with Krystyna Pietrych and Tomasz Cieślak, Krystyna Poklewska, professor emerita of the Łódź University, discusses the first years of the Faculty of Philology and Polish Studies in Łódź. It was also when she started her studies after leaving the destroyed Warsaw. She mentions numerous great individuals who used to work there, such as Jan Dürr-Durski, Samuel Sandler, Stefan Kawyn or Zdzisław Skwarczyński. The Professor considers her own career as a scholar: her earliest years marked by the strong influence of Kawyn, until the most recent time, which found her with inexhaustible passion for working with the literature of Polish Romanticism.
The subject of this article is war–themed prose addressed to children, or more precisely, the examination of a series of books published under the auspices of the Warsaw Uprising Museum as well as two short stories by Batszewa Dagan published by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz–Birkenau in Auschwitz. The objective of the article is the comparison of methods of presenting the subject of war to a young reader; specific issues disscussed in this article include narration, language, educational value and use of illustrations.
Published in 1879, but utterly forgotten today, The Mystery of the Mirror (The Mirror's Enigma) by Jadwiga Łuszczewska takes up a fantastic theme of the mirrors, in which the history of the world is written down. Since the very moment our world was created the mirrors have been registering everything that looks at itself in them. Employing the theory of reflexions and duplications (thing/object - idea), the author formulates some theses concerning the process of creation: a thought is reflected in the air just like in the mirror. It is afterwards seized by an artist who is able to read (interpret) it correctly. Platon’s Idealism and Paracelsus’s theory interwine in Deotym’s novel with F. Schelling’s thought and the aesthetics of E. T. A. Hoffmann.
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