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Utwory religijne Konstancji Benisławskiej a tradycja mistyki hiszpańskiej (św. Teresa z Ávili, św. Jan od Krzyża)

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Demkowicz A.

Tematy i Konteksty

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2016

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issue 6(11)

317-329

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Konstancja Benisławska was the author of only one collection, entitled Pieśni sobie śpiewane [Songs Sung to Oneself, by Konstancja von Ryck Benisławska, wife of the pantler of the Duchy of Livonia, published with encouragement from friends and taken from rural shadow into daylight in Vilnus in 1776]. It was published in a special period for the Republic of Poland when ideologies from Western Europe became popular in our country. Under the influence of views of French encyclopaedists and Voltaire, efforts for a thorough reform of political, social and cultural institutions began to be made. Transformations were the major talking point in press and literature of those days. Some social circles i.e. representatives of aristocracy, rich nobility and even clergy, started to become interested in the new laic model of spiritual life proposed by Western thinkers. According to philosophers, the Catholic Church proclaimed outdated ideas and stood in the way of development and civilization. Despite the applause for anti-Catholic ideas, the role and teachings of the Catholic Church in the Republic of Poland were not questioned. It contributed to a free development of religious literature. The volume of Benisławska, who was shaped in the spirit of great Spanish mystics, was inspired by love towards God. That feeling mobilizes the poet to continuous search for contact with the Creator, entering into deeper relations. The volume, which is a sort of “poetic prayer book,” is an account of her spiritual experience and feelings.

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Utwory maryjne Pieśni sobie śpiewanych Konstancji Benisławskiej a tradycja teologiczna i literacka

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Żukowska K.

Meluzyna. Dawna Literatura i Kultura

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2018

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vol. 1 (8)

43-59

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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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Źródła poezji Konstancji Benisławskiej. Barokowa elegia pokutna a Pieśni sobie śpiewane

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Żukowska K.

Meluzyna. Dawna Literatura i Kultura

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2019

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vol. 1 (10)

39-51

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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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Utwory religijne Konstancji Benisławskiej a tradycja mistyki hiszpańskiej (św. Teresa z Ávili, św. Jan od Krzyża)

Utwory maryjne Pieśni sobie śpiewanych Konstancji Benisławskiej a tradycja teologiczna i literacka

Źródła poezji Konstancji Benisławskiej. Barokowa elegia pokutna a Pieśni sobie śpiewane