Category of space in the system of intertextual connections Miciński’s essay Portrait of Kant
The article explores the intermedial connections between B. Miсiński’s essay Portrait of Kant and painting as a “spatial” art form. The essayist engages in a polemic with Lessing, the author of Laocoön, by examining painting and poetry in their identity. The role of portrait and object details in the structure of the ...
“An exact statement in everyday speech”: on the essayistic “silvichness” of Polish prose
... Renaissance (Rey, Górnicki, Modrzejewski), Baroque (Pasek, B. Chmielowski), and Enlightenment (Krasicki) periods. The creator of the Polish essayistic canon was Mikołaj Rey, the author of the book Zerciadło, which Mickiewicz compared to Montaigne’s Essays. The role of the essayistic element in the literary diaries of 20th-century Polish writers (Andrzejewski, Gombrowicz, Herling-Grudziński) is considered. It is stated that the tradition of Polish essayism, spanning the Modern and Contemporary ...
