The article presents the problem of the Gypsy stereotype in village society on the example of the novel Chata za wsią by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. It is the first novel describing this matter in Polish literature in the ...

Walery Wielogłowski was a very prolific author, which is usually not compatible with quality. Between 1846 and 1865, he wrote a few hundred articles and about a dozen novels and short stories, which expressed his interests ...

In 1867, 32-year old Mark Twain set off onboard of Quaker City to Europe and the Holy Land. The author’s experiences, adventures and recollections of the journey, first published as travel letters in American newspapers, ...

The article presents the situation in the Russian aesthetics in the beginning of the 19th century. One of the most talented young theoreticians of the time was Peter Georgievsky. His considerations devoted to aesthetics ...

The article is a discussion of editorial ideas of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski in “Athanaeum”, a periodical edited by him from 1841 to 1851 in Vilnus. The ten-year evolution of the editor’s methods is depicted by means of a ...

Biblical motifs were used in literature differently, depending on a period, trends in philosophy, views and formed models. For the generation of Young Poland artists, the Holy Bible was evidence of cultural continuity ...

The problem of war in Popioły (Ashes) by Żeromski is characterized by multilateral vision, presented from different perspectives: the psychological, philosophical, ethical, political and sociological ones, interpreted ...

This paper is an attempt to show how various countable features of a literary text – exemplified here by the trilogy of historical romances by Henryk Sienkiewicz – can be helpful in contrastive analyses between writings ...

The article discusses the history of revolt and decay of “The Future” – the paper of students of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. The short existence of “The Future” (from March to June 1903) is also an encouragement ...