O miejscach, pamięci i śmierci w Balladach i romansach
On places, memory and death in Ballads and Romances

Author(s): Krzysztof Trybuś
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: mythical space; Nowogródek; memory; imagination; kairotic places; romantic memory; Romanticism; Adam Mickiewicz; Ballads and Romances
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the mythization of the geographical space of the Nowogródek region in Adam Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances. Krzysztof Trybuś introduces into his analysis and interpretation of Mickiewicz’s ballad series the category of memory as being equivalent to imagination, thus pointing to the analogy in William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads. In his analysis, Trybuś takes into account both the rhetorical tradition of memory (ars) and the epistemological one (vis). He uses the notion of roman- tic memory with the cultural studies reflections of Aleida and Jan Assmann. Writing about places of memory in Mickiewicz’s ballad series, the author of the article also distinguishes kairotic places, marked by catastrophe. Trybuś links the historical context of Lithuania during the Napoleonic wars with the issue of death, which is heavily accentuated in Bal- lads and Romances. In the conclusion, he refers polemically to Maria Żmigrodzka’s well- -established thesis of two faces of early Romanticism in Poland. In doing so, he points out the similarity between Mickiewicz’s ballad cycle and Antoni Malczewski’s Maria in the preferential treatment of the theme of death.

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