„Panienka”, „Godzina Polski”, 1916: Irena Tuwim’s Literary Debut Cover Image

„Panienka”, „Godzina Polski”, 1916: Irena Tuwim’s Literary Debut
„Panienka”, „Godzina Polski”, 1916: Irena Tuwim’s Literary Debut

Author(s): Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Irena Tuwim; Polish poetry; debut; fate; emancipation

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article deals with the poetic newspaper debut of Irena Tuwim (1898-1987), an outstanding author and translator of children’s literature, but also a poet who is forgotten or read only on the margin of the literary output of her brother, Julian Tuwim (1894-1953). The poem titled Panienka (A Maiden), published in Godzina Polski in 1916, is hereby subjected to a contextual analysis and referred to other poems by Irena Tuwim as well as confronted with her existence, also in the auto-emancipatory dimension.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 199-209
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English