Modernistyczne przemiany romansu w Europie Środkowej 1867–1918. Przykład polski
Modernist transformation of romance in Central Europe, 1867–1918. Polish example

Author(s): Izabela Poniatowska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: romance; Central Europe; modernism; novel; change
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the ways literary critics perceives romance as a literary genre, comparing its 19th c. understanding and contemporary interpretations. The rapid development of the novel in the 2nd half of the 19th c. might have had diminished the importance of romance as an anachronistic literary genre. However, the years 1867-1918 brought its unexpected revival, initially identified with the novel in general, in a completely new function. Romance (pol. romans) became an important genre of popular literature, and many artists (as K. Przerwa-Tetmajer or S. Przybyszewski) used the subtitle „affair” (pol. romans), designating a text for popular circulation. The author discusses semantic differences and literary uses of those two terms in the period through chosen examples of periodicals, historical and literary criticism in the comparative context of French and English literatures.

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