Miasto polskiego Wieku Świateł
The City of the Polish Age of Enlightenment

Remarks on a Winding Way of Return

Summary/Abstract: Among the tasks the literary historian undertakes is a multi-faceted analysis of the image of the city contained in the Polish Enlightenment writing. Raising it as a subject of interest which is different from the scrutinised variant of the motive based on the anti-urbanistic rhetoric, and connected with urban life criticism, is possible, inter alia, due to applicability of the newest findings of research in the fields of humanistic geography and memory studies. The article suggests an expansion of the research field and employing less known literary studies tools to pinpoint and describe the various components of the conceptual model of the city profiled by the writers of the epoch.

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