Na pograniczach, kresach i poza granicami : studia

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Paribių kultūra; Vilniaus kultūra; Vilniaus literatūra; Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (LDK; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; GDL); Sienkiewicz; Vilniaus poetai; Polonistika; Borderland culture; Vilnius' culture; Sienkiewicz; Vilnius' poets; Polish studies.

ENThe present volume of studies comprises twenty-three studies that address different aspects of "borderlands" in the period spanning two hundred years (the nineteenth and twentieth centuries). In territorial terms, the studies concern the so-called Eastern marches as well as exile and regional spaces. Apart from the sketches on major writers of Polish positivism (Sienkiewicz in particular), the interpretations focus on texts of authors from Vilnius and Lithuania, both in the interwar decades and in contemporary times. A prominence is given to the poets of "Żagary" group. The key critical category assumed in the book is "borderland", and this, in the author's intention, has been done to highlight semantic and interactive richness of the term. In fact, the category is introduced in its two variants: as "borderland" and - often used and abused - "marches". Instrumental as it is for the studies of a significant part of Polish literature, the term "marches" should be questioned for its ideological connotations, expansive Polono-centrism, and excessive claims. Therefore the fact that "borderland" appears in the title as its first component is by no means accidental. Although both terms overlap in their meanings, they are not treated as synonyms. Historically accepted and emotionally expressive, the word "marches" harbours a strong Polono-centric note; "borderland" gives a multi-perspective picture of the represented world. Resentments connected with the marches are the product of a peculiar - romantic and at the same time conservative - vision of Eastern part of the Polish-Lithuanian Conunonwealth. "Borderland" connotes the co-existence of ethnic groups, cultures and religions. [...]. [From the publication]