The article presents biography understood as a representation, using Frank Ankersmith’s concept of „rendering justice” to the past, Philippe Lejeune’s referential pact, and Michał Paweł Markowski’s typology of four ...

The subject of the article are, acquired by romantic legend, enigmatic fate and death by suicide of Ludwik Spitznagel – „Polish Werter”. Historico-literary investigation caried out herein brings some new findings. They ...

This paper attempts to legitimize and distinguish the journalistic variant of biographical writing from other functional forms, including scholarly and literary biography. The presence of the term „journalistic biography” ...

This paper aims at defining the features of literature of reminiscence, especially of works related to the Second World War. The analysis is based on two memoirs: „Mój wrzesień 1939” [„My September 1939”] by Marian Jędo ...

The subject of the considerations contained in this article is the part of the epistolary legacy still existing in the form of the manuscripts from the collection of Teofil Lenartowicz. They were written by Elżbieta ...