Rusofobia w topice polskiego romantyzmu
Russophobia in the topics of Polish Romanticism

Author(s): Izabela Głowacka
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Russia–Poland; Russophobia; violence; Romanticism; postcolonialism; martyrology; messianism; historiosophy
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the concept of Polish Russophobia and shows its various realizations using examples of literary texts from the Romantic era, with the assumption that it was this era that shaped the native pattern of culture, changed and exploited in moments of crisis. The text comprises a spectrum of attitudes and topoi in the literature and epistolography of bards – the victim figure, divine punishment, martyrology and messianism, patriotic vampirism and historiosophical solutions to the Russian problem – which maybe the basis for foreigners’ understanding of Polish culture.

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