Juliusz Słowacki’s drama Zawisza Czarny [Zawisza the Black] is one of the poet’s least described and analysed works. This drama is one of the last literary texts of the poet (next to Samuel Zborowski from 1845), written ...

The article analyses the phenomena occurring in epistolary, namely the exchange of letters. The newly published correspondence of Jerzy Lisowski with Anna and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, during a very specific period, when, ...

The article briefly confronts different research perspectives on epistolography. The fundamental Teoria listu (Theory of a Letter) by Stefania Skwarczyńska is indicated as an important reference for many concepts. The ...

Inspired by Clifford Geertz’s concept, the author analyses blurred genres on the example of biographies, focusing on their contemporary transformations, while scrutinizing their formal, methodological and audience-related ...

The aim of this article is to present one of the varieties of biography, here tentatively defined as lunar biography. The specificity of this subgenre is relativity understood as a feature that shapes the way the characters ...

In Judaism, calamity [Hebr. חורבן churban, plural. חורבנות churbanot] is a cultural category that is not necessarily characterized as negative. It is viewed as a form of purification, which begins a crisis that finally ...

This paper is an analysis of four of Wiktor Woroszylski’s biographical books in terms of the narrative strategies adopted in each of these biographies. The books taken into consideration are: Sny pod śniegiem (about the ...