The article draws attention to the values related to social environment present in Kraszewski’s n... more The article draws attention to the values related to social environment present in Kraszewski’s novel of 1854. Establishing Stanisław Szarski, a writer and man of conscience and civic mission, as the protagonist of the novel, Kraszewski subordinated the narration and plot to a metacritical reflection on the cultural and social role of university ideals. The novel’s most important assets, contributing to its popularity among the Vilnius residents, included seeing the city and its inhabitants from the perspective of a university student – a newcomer from the Lithuanian province, as well as the representation of the life of academic youth, with its rituals and spontaneous behaviours, going far beyond the school walls. An important aspect discussed in the article is the autobiographical dimension of the Untitled Novel (Powieść bez tytułu). The outbreak of the uprising and the closure of the university interrupted Kraszewski’s studies and made it impossible for him to continue education ...
Street riots of the year 1639 between Calvinists and Catholics in a multi‑religious Vilnius, know... more Street riots of the year 1639 between Calvinists and Catholics in a multi‑religious Vilnius, known in historiography as the tumult of Vilnius, and its epilogue at the Sejm of Warsaw in 1640, have been widely commented and discussed by historians. Kraszewski’s novel also refers to this issue and presents nineteenth-century readers the heroes of this incident, both individual figures and urban crowd. The writer refers to source documents and traces the urban narrative immersed in a particular space, in the lives of the former residents of Vilnius, and in the history of their home. Passages from the source documents included in the book do not only play a historical role, they can also be used to analyze the mentality of the previous generations presented in an informal way. Mental structures, which have been set as a motto of this article, rely on constant interference of supernatural reality into the earthy matters. However, this happens differently than in Dziady by Mickiewicz. It i...
In Kraszewski’s times the term ”vagrant” becomes a stigmatizing label. It denotes the Poles who r... more In Kraszewski’s times the term ”vagrant” becomes a stigmatizing label. It denotes the Poles who return to politically-oppressed Poland, only to suffer exclusion by their fellow countrymen, who see them as suspicious revolutionists. The writer demonstrates the intersection of Polish and foreign culture from his own position of loner and emigrant in Dresden while the country faces at the time the imminent prospect of territorial fragmentation. The article attempts to interpret the intricate mechanism of changes in Polish mentality and culture which Kraszewski identified as resulting from territorial partitioning of Poland.marcinlul@wp.plMarcin Lul, dr, adiunkt w Zakładzie Literatury Oświecenia i Romantyzmu Instytutu Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku. Zajmuje się badaniem związków literatury polskiej pierwszej połowy XIX wieku z historią, kulturą i życiem społecznym, a w szczególności twórczością Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego. Autor monografii Wileńska maskarada. Pisarz i ś...
Elżbieta Dąbrowicz – dr hab., prof. Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku; zajmuje się historią literatury p... more Elżbieta Dąbrowicz – dr hab., prof. Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku; zajmuje się historią literatury polskiej XIX i XX wieku w perspektywie życia publicznego (m.in. kwestie autorytetu, cenzury, tabuizacji), zróżnicowaniem regionalnym piśmiennictwa polskojęzycznego, epistolografią i biografistyką; autorka książek: Cyprian Norwid. Osoby i listy, Lublin 1997; Galeria ojców. Autorytet publiczny w literaturze polskiej lat 1800–1861, Białystok 2009; Cenzura na gruzach. Szkice o literackich świadectwach życia w PRL-u, Białystok 2017; Romantyzm ziemi przechodów. Próby terytorialnej historii literatury, Białystok 2019.Marcin Lul – pracownik Wydziału Filologicznego Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku. Autor rozprawy Wileńska maskarada. Pisarz i świat w prozie Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego (2016). Zainteresowania badawcze: biografia i twórczość Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego na tle piśmiennictwa polskiego XIX wieku, kontakty międzyzaborowe, tradycja i pamięć historyczna (XVIII–XXI wiek).71
The theme of the interpretation of Historia kolka w plocie [The Story of the peg in the fence], a... more The theme of the interpretation of Historia kolka w plocie [The Story of the peg in the fence], a novel written by Kraszewski in Zhytomyr in 1858, presented in the article is the meeting of human culture and civilisation (including the social life of Polish rural communities) with the materiality of the non-human world. This issue raises a number of questions and doubts, especially today in the context of the historical and methodological return to the world of objects and ecology. Kraszewski’s epistemological scepticism charges the reader with the duty of reading the text under the “directive of mistrust”; in other words, to be ironically suspicious of any “absolute” truths. This creates space for Socratic irony, raised by Friedrich Schlegel to the rank of the main philosophical and aesthetic rule. Under Kraszewski’s pen it becomes the mechanism of creative self-control, which prevents the author from the unequivocal didacticism, to which his readers had become accustomed in some o...
The article draws attention to the values related to social environment present in Kraszewski’s n... more The article draws attention to the values related to social environment present in Kraszewski’s novel of 1854. Establishing Stanisław Szarski, a writer and man of conscience and civic mission, as the protagonist of the novel, Kraszewski subordinated the narration and plot to a metacritical reflection on the cultural and social role of university ideals. The novel’s most important assets, contributing to its popularity among the Vilnius residents, included seeing the city and its inhabitants from the perspective of a university student – a newcomer from the Lithuanian province, as well as the representation of the life of academic youth, with its rituals and spontaneous behaviours, going far beyond the school walls. An important aspect discussed in the article is the autobiographical dimension of the Untitled Novel (Powieść bez tytułu). The outbreak of the uprising and the closure of the university interrupted Kraszewski’s studies and made it impossible for him to continue education ...
Street riots of the year 1639 between Calvinists and Catholics in a multi‑religious Vilnius, know... more Street riots of the year 1639 between Calvinists and Catholics in a multi‑religious Vilnius, known in historiography as the tumult of Vilnius, and its epilogue at the Sejm of Warsaw in 1640, have been widely commented and discussed by historians. Kraszewski’s novel also refers to this issue and presents nineteenth-century readers the heroes of this incident, both individual figures and urban crowd. The writer refers to source documents and traces the urban narrative immersed in a particular space, in the lives of the former residents of Vilnius, and in the history of their home. Passages from the source documents included in the book do not only play a historical role, they can also be used to analyze the mentality of the previous generations presented in an informal way. Mental structures, which have been set as a motto of this article, rely on constant interference of supernatural reality into the earthy matters. However, this happens differently than in Dziady by Mickiewicz. It i...
In Kraszewski’s times the term ”vagrant” becomes a stigmatizing label. It denotes the Poles who r... more In Kraszewski’s times the term ”vagrant” becomes a stigmatizing label. It denotes the Poles who return to politically-oppressed Poland, only to suffer exclusion by their fellow countrymen, who see them as suspicious revolutionists. The writer demonstrates the intersection of Polish and foreign culture from his own position of loner and emigrant in Dresden while the country faces at the time the imminent prospect of territorial fragmentation. The article attempts to interpret the intricate mechanism of changes in Polish mentality and culture which Kraszewski identified as resulting from territorial partitioning of Poland.marcinlul@wp.plMarcin Lul, dr, adiunkt w Zakładzie Literatury Oświecenia i Romantyzmu Instytutu Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku. Zajmuje się badaniem związków literatury polskiej pierwszej połowy XIX wieku z historią, kulturą i życiem społecznym, a w szczególności twórczością Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego. Autor monografii Wileńska maskarada. Pisarz i ś...
Elżbieta Dąbrowicz – dr hab., prof. Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku; zajmuje się historią literatury p... more Elżbieta Dąbrowicz – dr hab., prof. Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku; zajmuje się historią literatury polskiej XIX i XX wieku w perspektywie życia publicznego (m.in. kwestie autorytetu, cenzury, tabuizacji), zróżnicowaniem regionalnym piśmiennictwa polskojęzycznego, epistolografią i biografistyką; autorka książek: Cyprian Norwid. Osoby i listy, Lublin 1997; Galeria ojców. Autorytet publiczny w literaturze polskiej lat 1800–1861, Białystok 2009; Cenzura na gruzach. Szkice o literackich świadectwach życia w PRL-u, Białystok 2017; Romantyzm ziemi przechodów. Próby terytorialnej historii literatury, Białystok 2019.Marcin Lul – pracownik Wydziału Filologicznego Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku. Autor rozprawy Wileńska maskarada. Pisarz i świat w prozie Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego (2016). Zainteresowania badawcze: biografia i twórczość Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego na tle piśmiennictwa polskiego XIX wieku, kontakty międzyzaborowe, tradycja i pamięć historyczna (XVIII–XXI wiek).71
The theme of the interpretation of Historia kolka w plocie [The Story of the peg in the fence], a... more The theme of the interpretation of Historia kolka w plocie [The Story of the peg in the fence], a novel written by Kraszewski in Zhytomyr in 1858, presented in the article is the meeting of human culture and civilisation (including the social life of Polish rural communities) with the materiality of the non-human world. This issue raises a number of questions and doubts, especially today in the context of the historical and methodological return to the world of objects and ecology. Kraszewski’s epistemological scepticism charges the reader with the duty of reading the text under the “directive of mistrust”; in other words, to be ironically suspicious of any “absolute” truths. This creates space for Socratic irony, raised by Friedrich Schlegel to the rank of the main philosophical and aesthetic rule. Under Kraszewski’s pen it becomes the mechanism of creative self-control, which prevents the author from the unequivocal didacticism, to which his readers had become accustomed in some o...
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