We frenetycznym zwierciadle romantyzmu wschodnioeuropejskiego — rzecz o najczarniejszych tekstach słowiańskich XIX wieku
In a frenetic mirror of East European Romanticism — the thing about the darkest Slavonic texts of the nineteenth century

Author(s): Katarzyna Żurawska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: This text is the introduction to deliberations over an enigmatic frenetic trend in the writings of the nineteenth-century writers, with a special focus on Polish, Ukrainian and Russian authors of the era of Romanticism. What is the basic assumption is to present the trend of frenetic literature, the development of which dates back to the end of the 18th and the first half of the 19th century, and to emphasize within Dark Romanticism the importance of frantic topics that significantly affected the development of later literature of horror, brutality and macabre grotesque. In European countries, the concept of frenezia was ontologically associated with various romantic trends — from the historical to the Gothic and fantastic novel, which depended on cultural conditions. Therefore the analysis of the literary material chosen from the works of Eastern European Romantic artists, and tracing the features (originally developed by Western European artists) of frenetic literature in its Slavic aspect as well as their functioning in the literature of this cultural circle — above all the manner of presenting the frantic landscape, the role of nature, creation of the protagonist, construction of events, absence/presence of God and the conceptualisation of the protagonist’s psyche is the nitty-gritty of this article.

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