Minister Jaszuński, impressed by Nikodem Dyzma's “vigorous” entry into high society in the
Hotel Europejski, says to Col. Wareda:“Yes, that must be a strong character. I belieye in …

REVIEWS 713 Heier, Edmund. Literary Portraiture in Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose.
Bausteine zur Slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschiclite. Bohlau, Cologrne, Weimar …

(Title in Polish-'Trzeba widziec, zeby plakac...'Stanowisko krytyki polskiej przelomu XIX I XX
wieku wobec nowatorstwa twórczosci Maurice'a Maeterlincka'). The article presents the …

Since at least the middle of the 19th century it has been a matter of course to believe that
every man—not, of course, the Everyman of Morality plays—can become the hero of a novel …

The leading role of the novel in the literature of the Positivist period had to find its justification
in normative aesthetics. It can be traced in the views of the main representatives of the …

This article deals with the rise in the Polish literature of 1970s of a new type of biographical
novel, associated with the fi rst post-war generation of writers like Bohdan Zadura, Julian …

Abstract Konstantin Nikolaevich Leont'ev modified scientific methods from Carl Gustav
Carus and Matthias Schleiden, under the influence of Slavophile controversies over …

literature are constructions–not reconstructions.” 2 To that, we could simply respond that the
problem is not the selection of illustrative examples itself–as these, astonishingly, have not …

In his comprehensive analysis of the ways in which works of world literature can best be
read, David Damrosch poses the question of whether something can exist that is not world …

Literary history is of no interest for today's world if it remains a chronological, hence,
development discourse based on the idea of progress; a formalistic exercise that studies …