The article presents interpretations of various manifestations of “negative cognition” (apophatic) in the literature of early modernism (Young Poland). Negative cognition (which has a rich tradition and dates back to ancient ...

1890–1918 was a time of intensive development of editorial works on literary texts, continuing workshop and ideological explorations in publishing work that started in the early nineteenth century. Chief editorial tasks ...

Marchołt occupies an individual position in the literary output of Jan Kasprowicz. This drama was created in stages during a couple of years’ time, being entirely published only in the year 1920; wholly absorbing the artist ...

This article analyses The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) by Rainer Maria Rilke and A Moment of True Feeling (1975) by Peter Handke, aiming to demonstrate that the protagonists of the two works are trying to ...

The paper presents an overview of Kraków’s “Życie” (1897–1900) as a journal that featured the most important ideological and philosophical trends of the late nineteenth century. Examination of journalistic texts on cultural, ...

The notion of modernism in Polish literary criticism at the turn of the 20th century was characterized, as the author of the article proves, by ambiguity. The notion was understood and explained differently and was used ...

The previous attempts to present Tadeusz Miciński’s The Polish Thermopylae on the stage ended in either a complete failure or at least unfulfilled expectations. The multi-dimensional text-charade, full of numerous historical ...

The author of the article aims to add his voice to the debate (fundamental for the studies of Norwid) on the tangled historical and literary origin of Cyprian Norwid and methods of legitimising it: the romantic and modernist. ...

Alfred Döblin’s short story Die Ermordung einer Butterblume (The Murder of a Buttercup), from the collection Die Ermordung einer Butterblume und andere Erzählungen (1910–1911), is considered a key prose text of early German ...

The article presents the characteristics of Spanish modernism. The author points to a group of writers known as Generation ’98, whose shared characteristic was their focus on the criticism of the socio-political situation ...