The article discusses the ever present animisation and personification found in the literature addressed to children, which comprises broad domains of the psychological and physical life. Cosmos is endowed with an awareness ...

The article presents the coherence mechanisms of children’s poems, through which the texts fulfil play- and educational functions. Their unity, and thematic and genre openness are crucial features of coherence. Other ...

The article discusses the poetic function of pronoun nasz, especially in displaying child's world on the basis of Maria Konopnicka’s poetry. The pronoun organises the process of domesticating the rural area. It is ...

In this article I discuss child and childhood as a psycho-physical and existential category in contemporary poetry. The introductory remarks concern the evolution of the perception of that category. Childhood has never ...

The paper describes educational mechanisms in Maria Konopnicka’s poems for children containing images of rural landscape. In the world created by the analysed poems an important role is played by children, who - together ...

The presentation of rural landscape in Maria Konopnicka’s poems for children is an attempt at reconstructing mechanisms of virtualisation of the recipient used by the poet. Among others, it refers to a particular use of ...

The article is a brief review of the Polish prose for young readers in the last half century. The review covers the historical, adventure, social and psychological novels, fairy tales and modern fantasy tales. The article ...