Narodziny romantycznej pamięci
The Birth of Romantic Memory

A Commentary to the Reading of “Ballady i romanse” (“Ballads and Romances”)

Summary/Abstract: The author of the paper explains the role that the problem of memory plays in “Ballady i romanse” (“Ballads and Romances”). He also poses a question about the significance of the romantic turn which is taking place in Polish literature, and in doing so he challenges the state of research completed to this day in Mickiewicz’s cycle of ballads (especially with the works by Zgorzelski, Stefanowska, Fieguth, and Miłosz). Trybuś exploits the issue of romantic memory, resorts to Aleida and Jan Assmann’s cultural studies reflection, as well as allows both for the rhetoric tradition of memory reflection, and the epistemological tradition (“eye of memory”). In his reading of the ballads he concentrates mainly on the subject of romantic memory and on the places of memory, indicating memory-forming experience of death. The considerations are thought of as justification of the paper’s hypothesis about two culminating points of the development of memory problems in Mickiewicz’s creativity—in “Ballady i romanse” and in the consecutive parts of “Dziady” (“Forefathers’ Eve”).

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