„Filomat-Konrad”. Komentarze do Nieznanych pism Adama Mickiewicza wydanych przez Józefa Kallenbacha
‘A PHILOMATH – KONRAD’. COMMENTS ON NIEZNANE PISMA ADAMA MICKIEWICZA PUBLISHED BY JÓZEF KALLENBACH

Author(s): Urszula Kowalczuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Adam Mickiewicz; Józef Kallenbach; Philomaths’ archive; early 20th century literary criticism
Summary/Abstract: This article examines literary critical comments as well as journalism commentaries that appeared in 1909 soon after Józef Kallenbach published Nieznane pisma Adama Mickiewicza [Adam Mickiewicz’s Unknown Texts] which was a natural consequence of 'discovering' The Philomaths' archive. The study reconstructs the complexities of the discourse which aims, on one hand, at revealing Mickiewicz’s obscure adolescent activity but on the other, at proving his already well-acknowledged image of a poet. Also, the analysis of literary critical texts points at the sources of difficulties in re-establishing what we already know about this widely recognised and most remarkable Polish poet and at the individual nature of the language which made it easier to tackle Mickiewicz’s cultural phenomenon.

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