19 articles in this issue
Joanna Gradziel-Wójcik
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Anna Legezynska
Vitalism is a vague and ambiguous philosophical notion which researchers try to apply to describe modernist literature, especially from the period of the Young Poland. The author of the article suggests that vitalism should be approached as an interpretiv... see more
Elzbieta Hurnik
The article is devoted to Maria Czerkawska’s poetry written during interwar period. Nature is the main subject of her poems. It is shown in a detailed and precise way. The good example is her book entitled Zielony cien (1928) and subsequent volumes.... see more
Agata Zawiszewska
The article discusses Zofia Wojnarowska’s (1881-1967) biography and poetry which were representative of the life path and artistic career of many other active Polish poetesses at the turn of the 19th century. The output of Wojnarowska, who made her ... see more
Lucyna Marzec
The article is the analysis of the place of Kazimiera Illakowiczówna in contemporary literary discourse. The author of the article claims – using Pierre Bayard’s theory – that the poetess is known “more or less”: she is remembered as someone who got prize... see more
Elzbieta Wróbel
In the article, the author brings back the forgotten poet of the interwar period Elizabeth Szemplinska. The starting point of the discussion is the political and social situation that occurred in Poland in the thirties. The economic crisis, from which the... see more
Sylwia Karolak
The main purpose of this article is to analyse the reception of Izabela Glebard’s (Czajka-Stachowicz’s) works, with particular emphasis on her only book of poety Piesni zalobne getta . At first Gelbard intentionally chooses poetry, but after the experienc... see more
Beata Przymuszala
Text, showing the most important ways in the 20th century to think about poetry, refers to modernist epiphany (Ryszard Nycz). On the example of Malgorzata Hillar’s poetry, the author shows the inadequacy of this concept. It focused on the linguistic aspec... see more
Adriana Biedrowska
This paper encourages to renew a reflection on poetry of Anna Swirszczynska – a well-known but also unknown author. It discusses the subject of motherhood in this poetry (pregnancy, childbirth, puerperium) and shows, how relevant Swirszczynska’s works sti... see more
Monika Ladon
Jadwiga Stanczakowa was a blind writer, who was more known as a friend of Miron Bialoszewski than for her own literary work. Meanwhile, she is the author of several books of poetry, autobiographical prose and a diary. Miron Bialoszewski was certainly mast... see more
Karol Maliszewski
The article presents the life and work of Anna Zelenay, a forgotten poetess from Klodzko. The author shows the impact of her disease on awareness and shape of her poems written often in hospitals and sanatoriums. He discusses the critics on her poetry and... see more
Krzysztof Skibski
The article concerns textual phenomena in the poetry of Urszula Koziol, which constitute a part of a linguistic method for examining relations between elements of poetic language. The examples discussed concern free verse – they reveal elaborate structure... see more
Agata Stankowska
The paper is devoted to Ewa Kuryluk’s poetry and art. The author describes intermingling dimensions of the poet’s artistic identity – existential, hermeneutical and aesthetical – presenting three major tensions present in her work. The first one... see more
Pawel Marciniak
The article contains the reflection on four texts of Ewa Lipska, written in association with Zbigniew Preisner. The discussed works belong to a genre of a literary carol and as a result they have been included in the republication of the album W poszukiwa... see more
Joanna Dembinska-Pawelec
The author of this sketch interprets Boguslawa Latawiec’s poems in the context of women’s signatures. Poetry of Latawiec was usually read by critics in relation to the Polish avant-garde tradition represented by men: J. Przybos and T. Karpowicz. The autho... see more
Malgorzata Rygielska
This paper deals with the problems of time and temporality in the poetry of Boguslawa Latawiec ranging from one of her first volumes of poetry (Przestrzenie [Spaces ], 1975) to the recently released Zmowy [Collusions] (2015). The passage of ti... see more
Angelika Trzcinska
The article elaborates on the place and status of items and the relationship that occurs between human and thing in Boguslawa’s Latawiec poetry. The author made an attempt to capture the way in which this issue has evolved in Latawiec’s poetic works – fro... see more
Agnieszka Kwiatkowska
Danuta Wawilow’s poems for children were created in the second half of the 20th century. The poems classify as the language poetry, employing in the compositions the mechanisms and figures of speech characteristic of this aesthetic current. The poet uses ... see more
Aleksandra Wieczorkiewicz
Among numerous books of poetry for children written by Danuta Wawilow – famous XXth century Polish poet and writer – one book is special: Poems for Naughty Children [Wiersze dla niegrzecznych dzieci] published in 1987. The book is unique not o... see more