Polska historia literatury jako miejsce pamięci
Polish history of literature as a place of remembrance

Author(s): Maciej Junkiert
Subject(s): Cultural history, Cognitive Psychology, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: history of literature; discipline; Adam Mickiewicz; Maria Janion
Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the origin and specificity of 19th-century Polish historical and literary research. He compares the context of the birth of a new discipline in the partition Poland and in German states. History considered from this perspective literature appears to be an important factor contributing to the emergence of modern nations, and literary historians are presented as key authoritiesin the field of cultural past and present. The author is interested in the similarities and differences resulting, for example, from the fact that history in German states literature was an important academic discipline, while Polish authors they developed it in much more difficult conditions.

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