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Literature ans nationalism in partitioned Poland, 1795-1918

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    Stanisław Eile.
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    Preface. Introduction: The character if Polish nationalism - its literary foundations before 1795. 1. The formation of nineteenth-century nationalism in Polish literature. From the poetry of Bar to "Dąbrowski's Mazurka". 2. Messianism and the national cause. Mickiewicz's Poland as the "Christ of Nations". 3. The poetry of suffering and rebellion. Juliusz Słowacki and the patriotism of blood and death. 4. The domestic utopia of rural paradise. The problematic 'centres of Polshness". "Pan Tadeusz" and the comedies of Fredro. 5. Populistic nationalism in fiction and Henryk Sienkewicz. Romantic ideas and the novel. Sienkiewicz - his admirers and detractors. Romanticism, sarmatism and historical adventure. Anti-insurrectionism: the ideas of universality, labour and political realism. C.K. Norwid - a sceptical Messiah. 7. Apologists and revisionists. The national dilemmas of the "Young Poland" period. Stefan Żeromski's agonising examination of the national conscience. 8. From the assault on national myths to the cult of proletariat. Wyspiańśki's struggle with the romantic idea of liberation. Nationalism as the Promethean mission of labour: Stanisław Brzozowski and Andrzej Strug.


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