The book is the first volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of Norwid's oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the moral and spiritual condition of man or his place in the world and history and seeks to answer universal questions. The book contains an extensive selection of contributions which represent different approaches to the poet's work. They cover various areas of research, including interpretation, thematology, genology, and editing.

Autorentext

Agata Brajerska-Mazur is a researcher on translation and works of Cyprian Norwid and Adjunct Professor in the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the Maria Curie University of Lublin, where she teaches translation and introduces the method of katena, as devised in her doctoral dissertation. She collaborated with Danuta Borhardt on translations of Norwid's poems and published a book on English translation of Wislawa Szymborska's poems. Edyta Chlebowska is an art historian and works in the Institute for the Study of Cyprian Norwid's Literature at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. She has authored articles and books about the artistic creativity of Norwid and the relationship between artistic and literary creation. She is working on catalogue raisonné of the works of Cyprian Norwid.

Inhalt

Norwidian research - Notes and Documents on Cyprian Norwid - Norwid's Old Age - Norwid the Poet - Norwid the Painter - Leading Motifs in Norwid's Poetry - Norwid's Producing Hand - Norwid among the Great-Grandchildren - Romanticism - Theatre of the World - The World of Norwid's Thought - Poem-Parables - Poetic Semantics - Questions in Norwid's Work - Obscure Allegories - Norwid and Theological Tradition - Concept of the "Whole" - Publishing Guidelines for Norwid's Dziela Wszystkie - A Poet of the Senses