Wincentego Pola Pamiętnik do literatury polskiej XIX wieku. Geografia między historią literatury a autobiografią
Pamiętnik do literatury polskiej XIX wieku by Wicenty Pol. Geography between History of Literature and Autobiography

Author(s): Urszula Kowalczuk
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Wincenty Pol; history of literature; geography; the 19th century; autobiography
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses Pamiętnik do literatury polskiej XIX wieku by Wincenty Pol, publishedin Lviv in 1866. The Diary is presented in the context of the writer’s publishing choices, madein the 1860s, his epistolary refl ections and chosen aspects of the reception of his geographicaland poetic work. The reading of this historical and literary synthesis is subordinated to questionsabout the 19th century status of geographical refl ection, closely correlated with historical thoughtnad its place and functions in Pol’s writings. The article suggests reading Pamiętnik... as anatypical autobiography.

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