Alegoria a interpretacja. Miłość w kontekście alegorycznych uwikłań: Mickiewicz i Szymborska
Allegory versus interpretation. Love in the context of allegorical complications: Mickiewicz and Szymborska

Summary/Abstract: In the paper, the author draws attention to the way in which the allegorical sense may increase the scope of text interpretation. She begins from the ambiguity of allegory in the modern literary studies connected with the relations between the process of analogy and identity. She then uses the role which allegory played in the transformation of the love image in the social conscience. Subsequently, in the interpretational material, the author points out the complications and the fatalistic stigma of love, both the love characterised by the absolutism of connection ({Dziady} Part Four), and the love in which the bonds have disintegrated ({On the Tower of Babel}). As a result, the article indicates that on the one hand, the allegory has contributed to the absolutisation of love, and on the other, it unveils the fragility of love and consequently, its usurpation of durability.

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