Travels into Old-Polish Genres and Topics.A review: Teresa Banaś, Pomiędzy tragicznością a groteską. Katowice 2007. Cover Image

Wędrówka po staropolskich gatunkach i tematach.Rec.: Teresa Banaś, Pomiędzy tragicznością a groteską. Katowice 2007.
Travels into Old-Polish Genres and Topics.A review: Teresa Banaś, Pomiędzy tragicznością a groteską. Katowice 2007.

Author(s): Piotr Pirecki
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Teresa Banaś; "Pomiędzy tragicznością a groteską"; Babin Republic; Kochanowski's "Laments"

Summary/Abstract: The review of Teresa Banaś’s book "Between Tragicalness and Grotesque" discusses the problems taken upon by the author referring to literary creativity of Polish rouges and story-tellers gathered in Babin Republic, and a new look at Jan Kochanowski’s "Treny" ("Laments"). In his conclusion, the reviewer states that Banaś’s book is a reliable approach to the poetics of the discussed authors and offers a new quality of research in Old-Polish literature.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 249-255
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish