RSS 1.0Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica T. 55 (2019) nr 4
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Bodies on stage between presence and absence
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)European theatre engages with the problems of our time with ever greater commitment and responsibility, crucial both on the existential and the social level. At the same time it is researching and experimenting with a ... -
Wolność czy może ciąg dalszy „zniewolenia”, czyli o nowych polskich zjawiskach kulturalnych na Litwie
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The article is a description of the situation of Polish culture in Lithuania and the environment in which this culture has been created. The diagnosis has highlighted several reasons for its weakness, such as the deteriorating ... -
Discourse of heresy in Polish post-WWII literature Herling’s and Herbert’s heretics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The present text explores the theme of heresies and their persecution in the works of a group of writers, survivors of World War II and of the two dictatorships of the century – Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Zbigniew Herbert, ... -
The gardener’s topos based on the example of the poem “The Gardener” (Ogrodnik) by Czesław Miłosz (text analysis)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)„The gardener’s topos based on the example of the poem Ogrodnik by Czesław Miłosz (text analysis)”. The article is a detailed consideration of a poem by Czesław Miłosz entitled Ogrodnik [Gardener]. The main object of the ... -
Wolność słowa zakonspirowana w przestrzeni publicznej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The article discusses the various strategies employed during the second half of the twentieth century to represent ideas in public space. It focuses not on the classical monuments-subjects, but rather on the strategies for ... -
‘Honor the great poet’. The Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s contribution to the development of Polish Dante studies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The article analyses the Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s contribution to the development of Dante studies in Poland. It was thanks to his lectures on Dante, held in Krakow and Lviv in 1867, and later published under the title ... -
From Warsaw to Warsaw. Some remarks on the two ‘imaginary translations’ from Polish (1944) by Franco Fortini
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The article analyses Franco Fortini’s two poems written in 1944 during his exile in Switzerland: Warsaw 1939 and Warsaw 1944 (the latter’s former title was Warsaw 1943). The poet defined them Imaginary Translations, because ... -
Blanc, lux et lumen dans la poésie de Czesław Miłosz
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The use of the colour white, as with other colours evoked by Czesław Miłosz, is not the result of conscious elaboration (technical, philosophical or mystical). Instead, it seems that the colours belong to another level of ... -
After Bereza. Polish literature towards the Confinement Centre in Bereza Kartuska. 1939–2018
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The article concerns the inclusion in the broadly understood Polish literature of the theme and motif of the Confinement Centre in Bereza Kartuska (1934–1939). I discussed in it the formation of the image of the concentration ... -
Bulletins of the Polish censorship office from 1945 to 1956. A reconnaissance study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The aim of the article is to discuss selected research perspectives offered by the bulletins of the censorship office created in Poland from 1945 to 1956. Due to the chiefly confidential nature of the analysed documents I ... -
Brr, Bereza. Polish literature towards the Confinement Centre in Bereza Kartuska. 1934–1939
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The article concerns the presence of the theme and motif of the Place of Isolation at Bereza Kartuska in broadly understood Polish literature. It presents the most important facts pertaining to this institution and the ... -
Рождение текста в поэтической лаборатории Владимира Аристова: дискретно-уровневая модель
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)In this article, the authors explore the creative method of Vladimir Aristov on the material of two poems with the involvement of the author’s comments and unique manuscripts. All stages of text creation are tracked. The ... -
From manuscript to first printed edition. On the early variants of the poem “Ranny” by Tadeusz Różewicz
Woźniak-Łabieniec, Marzena
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)
Tadeusz Różewicz was a poet for whom works of literature, poetry in particular, were never finite entities. He often changed his poems in consecutive editions. This article discusses the poem Ranny, several versions of ... -
“Dziennik wojenny” by Leopold Buczkowski. A challenge for a (young) editor
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The paper discussed Dziennik wojenny [War Journal] by Leopold Buczkowski. It posed a question concerning the origins of the text and the subsequent stages of its development. That is a challenging task since the original ... -
Textual meanders. “Diary 1954” by Leopold Tyrmand – a problem of not only a philological nature
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The Hoover Institution at Stanford University holds the largest collection of manuscripts by Leopold Tyrmand in the world. An analysis of the materials stored at the Hoover Institution provides grounds for dissipating some ... -
“Like a honeycomb under construction” – about Władysław Terlecki’s archives and writing method
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The article is devoted to the Władysław Terlecki archives stored in Ossolineum. It presents a cross-section of their content as well as the meaning of the drafts of printed texts and unpublished works of the author within ... -
Włodzimierz Odojewski’s writing archive in the light of genetic criticism. Initial study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The article consists of two parts. The first includes a presentation of the records collected in the Archive of Włodzimierz Odojewski in Poznań and a reflection on the writer’s creative method. The second part presents an ... -
“Turn back the course of a river / the course of life / that is my mission.” On the poems by Wincenty Różański
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The article is an attempt at discussing the most important features of Wincenty Różański’s poetry written in the final years of his creative period. This poetry is strongly subjective, manifesting the poet’s Catholicism, ... -
In praise of vital records. A few cases
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)A literary historian finds birth, death, and marriage certificates incredibly useful as primary research sources. Detached as it is, this knowledge serves as a solid basis both for individual biographies and contexts meant ... -
The “Legiony” (Legions) Project. On Henryk Sienkiewicz’s final novel
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-31)The archived rough draft of Legiony, the last novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, contains 139 separate pages, including drafts of textual varieties, subsequent variants, and the printed version. The diverse material and the ...