Zbiór opowiadań Marii Dąbrowskiej Dzieci Ojczyzny z 1918 r. oraz jego odbicie w powieści Noce i dnie, wydanej w latach 1932-1934

The entire collection of 1918 stories, especially the last one, entitled My, polskie dzieci! [We, the Polish children!], describing the school strike in Kalisz of 1905, opens Maria Dąbrowska’s many years of reflection on what the future Polish independence should be like. Therefore, 1905 is an important moment in her work, and the description of the school strike in Kalisz exists in her output in three versions. When political independence became reality, the writer took the tedious work of writ­ing her great novel, Noce i dnie [Nights and Days] to describe not only the background of the 1918 independence, as she did in her collection published the same year, but also in order to better explore the concept of social independence. The novel is intended to transform the reader from a passive recipient of the political independence into a conscious and active participant of their personal and social independence.Cały zbiór opowiadań z roku 1918, a szczególnie ostatnie opowiada­nie My, polskie dzieci!, opisujące strajk szkolny w Kaliszu w 1905 r., jest początkiem wielkiej refleksji Dąbrowskiej na temat tego, czym ma być przyszła niepodległość w Polsce. Dlatego rok 1905 jest ważnym ele­mentem jej twórczości, a opis strajku szkolnego w Kaliszu istnieje aż w trzech wersjach. W momencie zaś, kiedy niepodległość polityczna staje się rzeczywistością, pisarka podejmuje żmudną pracę napisania wielkiej powieści Noce i dnie nie tylko w celu przedstawienia rodowo­du niepodległościowego z 1918 r., jak to zrobiła w zbiorze wydanym tego samego roku, ale też aby pogłębić społeczne pojęcie o niepodle­głości. Powieść ma przeobrazić czytelnika z biernego odbiorcy poli­tycznej niepodległości w świadomego i aktywnego uczestnika biorące­go udział w osobistej i społecznej niepodległości

Spór (albo dwugłos) w służbie myślenia

The article depicts relations between two distinguished Polish literary critics from the interwar period – Kazimierz Wyka and Ludwik Fryde. They both represented the same literary generation (the 1910 generation) and the same programmepostulating critical model. Despite shared interests, among them responses to the same literary events (especially Maria Dąbrowska’s Noce i dnie) and shared issues of literary generations, their relationship was usually described as a dispute. Wyka and Fryde adopted a different stance on the critical and social impact of Stanisław Brzozowski and the significance of work of Wyka’s master Stefan Kołaczkowski. Their world view also differed. Although both critics were among the first proponents and promoters of personalism in Poland, Wyka was closer to Emmanuel Mounier’s way of thinking, whereas Fryde was closer to Jacques Maritain’s

Pisanie bez granic : o krytyce literackiej w międzywojennych dziennikach Marii Dąbrowskiej

The aim of the present article is to demonstrate a critical-literary reflection which was contained in interwar journals of Maria Dąbrowska. The writer was a very strict judge of the twentieth – century literature. She felt the need of quick reaction to weak works of literature, and also directed many accusations at literary critics. Her activity in the interwar period can be divided into two terms: before and after the publication of Noce i Dnie. Undoubtedly, it was the success of the novel that contributed to the fact that Dąbrowska was writing about literature in a very daring way, frequently making critical remarks addressed at her fellow writers

A Review of a Roman-Fleuve Genre: Nights and Days

In this study, the novel named Noce i Dnie (Nights and Days) which was written by Maria Dąbrowska, who have made a distinguished name for herself with her prose during the interwar period of Polish Literature, will be reviewed in the contex of roman-fleuve genre. The novel introduces the change and development of a family through the four generations of Niechcic family while reflecting historical, social, economic, politic and culturel changes occured during these years in Poland. In accordance with the river novel genre, it has the characteristics of historical novel, family novel, period novel and autobiographical novel. Events that are told with a quite detailed style, go back to Congress Poland with flashbacks and continue to the World War I. In this regard, many characters and cities are included in this work. Nights and Days, which was published in four volumes, is one of the most important examples of roman-fleuve genre in Polish literature

Sufrażystki angielskie w polskiej prasie kobiecej na przykładzie czasopisma „Bluszcz”

Artykuł próbuje odpowiedzieć na pytanie, jaki obraz sufrażystek wyłaniał się z korespondencji Mariana Dąbrowskiego opublikowanej w popularnym czasopiśmie adresowanym do kobiet oraz na ile relacje naocznego świadka wydarzeń mogły kształtować postawy Polek wobec kampanii „Votes for women”.The article tries to answer the question about how Marian Dąbrowski’s correspondence published in the most popular women’s magazine before First World War shows the suffragettes and how press report created by eyewitness could influence the reader’s attitude regarding Votes for Woman campaign.Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00

Rodzima klasyka filmowa w świadomości zbiorowej polskich widzów. Opinie Polaków o polskich filmach i ich postawy wobec polskiej produkcji filmowej

The text discusses the social understanding of the film canon. The analyses is based on the results of the social research “Poles about Polish films. Opinions of Poles on Polish cinema and their attitudes towards Polish film production” conducted in 2019. The research findings show how Polish audiences think about the Polish film canon and how they define it, referring to their own film experiences, attitudes towards Polish productions and to beliefs about the influence of Polish cinema on culture

Family Saga — an Attempt to Organize and Conceptualize the Genre

This article presents a review of family sagas theory (family novels) as a genre. A family saga derives from Medieval Saga, but in contemporary meaning it is an extensive epic story about the history of the family. The purpose of the article is to organize earlier concepts and create a consistent model of a traditional family saga. It is also an introduction to the study of contemporary representations of this genre