Słowiańska krucjata Mickiewicza

Marta Ruszczyńska

doi:10.34768/fp2016a2

Authors

Marta Ruszczyńska University of Zielona Góra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8489-4667 (unauthenticated)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34768/fp2016a2

Keywords:

crusade, Slavdom, history, Mickiewicz

Abstract

The author of the article attempts to describe selected elements of Mickiewicz’s biography, as well as those fragments of his literary output which arrange themselves into a common tale of Slavdom. Among the selected texts there are the Paris talks, The composition of rules for the Polish Legion [Skład zasad legionu polskiego], Mickiewicz’s speeches made to the inhabitants of Italian cities at the time of the Spring of Nations in 1848 and his travel letters. Reconstruction of Mickiewicz’s activity at that time, accompanied by his Eastern mission of 1855, reveals his Slavophile tendencies flavored with millenarian attitude. Symbolic imagery rooted in an atmosphere of medieval crusades and the search for Slavic Jerusalem seems to have been close to the atmosphere of those events. In this perspective, the death of Mickiewicz in 1855 concluded and complemented his many years of efforts to restore the Slavs to history. As a result, the symbolic and mythical image of Mickiewicz’s struggle for free Slavs found its way to the minds of the general public. However, for contemporary and subsequent interpreters, the literary events and the biographical facts seemed to be the most complementary tale from the life of the romantic poet.

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Author Biography

Marta Ruszczyńska, University of Zielona Góra

A historian of 19th-century literature, employed as an associate professor at the Institute of Polish Philology at the University of Zielona Góra. In her research, she focuses on issues of romantic literature and the broadly understood Slavophilia in 19th-century Polish literature. Her interests also include the tradition of the Eastern Borderlands, romantic regionalism, and the 19th-century novel. An important place in her oeuvre is occupied by the monographs: Dominik Magnuszewski. Between history and nature (1995), Ziewonia. Romantic literary group (2002), Slavs and Slavophiles. On Slavophile discourses in the literature of Polish Romanticism (2015).

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