At its beginnings poetry was always connected with music. In Ancient Greece poetry was not only sung, but also danced. Later, the arts separated. However, in Romanticism music became once more a very important notion for ...

Witkacy suffered from amusia as a child and as an adult person. He was seriously interested in music only for little longer than twenty years (1890-1914?). He wrote his main works as amusic. The relation between amusia ...

Bolesław Leśmian’s The Mad Violinist contains many suggestions concerning the musical side of the drama, especially its properties of sound and expression. The violin and violin playing fulfill an important function - ...

The article illustrates ways of perceiving irony in Old Polish literature, especially in the Owlglass literature created between 16th and 17th century in Poland. The main goal of this work is to analyse fragments of texts ...

In the present article, the influence of media on students as well as on school education is discussed. The article shows the most important objectives and challenges for the present media education and indications ...

Events from the past create a man’s personal history, which is narrated in order to emphasise the coherence of human life and its reasonableness. In this story, a special role is played by the recalling subject, who is ...

Many researchers on the 20th century literature and art locate Roman Jaworski’s artistic work on the border of grotesque achievements. The author of Historia maniaków, as the only writer of the Young Poland, with full ...

The aim of this paper is to present the 1951 dicussion on Czesław Miłosz’s escape from Poland. Wirpsza’s poem, published in January 1951, was dedicated to Czesław Miłosz. It was was commented on in a literary cultural ...

This article presents several examples of illustrations inspired by Slowacki’s poetry which were issued in 1909. They are based on four different methods and styles in the art of illustration. The present author discusses ...