Romantic Memory: Studies from the Past and Present

ISBN-13: 9783631788080 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 194 str.

Klara Naszkowska; Krzysztof Trybus

Opis

The book focuses on cultural memory preserved in the Polish Romantic literature, and still present in Polish public life. It depicts the Romantic project of transforming history into memory in the poetic texts of Mickiewicz, Slowacki and Norwid (as well as Byron and other European Romantics).

Spis treści

Memory and Romanticism - Sites of memory - Romantic biography as a form of memory - Mickiewicz's Slavic memory - Old age assisting memory - Slowacki's memory of the beginning - Norwid's memory of Rome - Romantic memory and contemporary memory - Ritual and memory in Forefathers' Eve

O autorze

Krzysztof Trybus is a Full Professor at the Polish Studies Institute at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. His research interests focus on the literature of Polish Romanticism, mainly the works of Norwid and Mickiewicz, as well as the problems of literary tradition and cultural memory.