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Norwid’s legends
Abstract
The literary genre of legend isusually associated in research with Norwid’s proseworks bearing suchtitles (conceptualised by Juliusz W. Gomulicki), written between 1858 and 1861 (Handful of Sand, Bracelet, Civilization). However, the subtitle or title legend appeared more frequently and earlier in the writer’s poems. In her interpretations, the author takes into account the entire corpus of Norwidian Texas called legends by their creator. She confronts their genological shape with mediewal hagiographic legends and folk tales, and show how the poet transformed the Skurce forms and what questions he posed in these works. – While the Elary poetica legends are linked to literary anthropology and historiosophy and have a clear moral message, the later parabolic novellas portray Norwid’s contemporaneity as he views his times in the mirror of the values conveyed by the Bible and hagiographic legends. The semantic ambiguity of this genre name emerges from the analyses in the article; the author distinguishes three meanings of the word present in the writer’s works: two genological and one historiosophical.
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Cyprian Norwid, legend, tale, parabolic novella, literary tradition, poetic semanticsDetails
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