Polska, uzupełniona wersja artykułu: Classical Persian Epics — Conscious Authorship and Tradition, “Studia
Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis” 10 (2015), zesz. 3, s. 195−204.The article explores the concept of authorship in early (10th−11th century A.D.) classical
Persian epic poetry, it uses examples of three representative works: Ferdousi’s Šāhnāme,
Asadi’s and Gorgāni’s Vis-o Rāmin. As the analyzed passages show, all three authors, in spite
of their works being based on the existing, traditional sources, have a strong sense of their
individual authorship. They understand their role as saving pre-Islamic Iranian patrimony
from oblivion, as a modernization of literary language and style and finally, as a search for
their personal fame. An attempt at discovering inner senses of the inherited literary material,
beyond its external meaning, seems to be another aspect of their authorial creativity
