Mnemotopika Ukrainy w twórczości Juliusza Słowackiego: kontekst aksjologiczny
Mnemotopoi of Ukraine in the Work of Juliusz Słowacki: Axiological Context

Author(s): Mariya Valentynivna Bracka
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: mnemotopoi; Ukraine; metaphors of memory; axiology; ambivalence; infernality
Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to analyze the mnemotopoi of Ukraine in the work of Juliusz Słowacki, with particular emphasis on the axiological context. It was noted that the concept of mnemotopoi combines the interests of humanistic geography and studies of memory. It was emphasized that Słowacki, in his early works, remembers the image of Ukraine as an exotic geographical and ethnographic space through steppe metaphors, graves, icons, and the topoi of a young Cossak-man marked ambivalently. In his later texts, among others "Sen srebrny Salomei" (“The Silver Dream of Salomea”), the mnemotopoi of Ukraine are characterized by infernality, but also by the awareness of its separateness and an important role in raising the spirit of Polishness.

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