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Adam Mickiewicz never wrote down A History of the Future. We only have a few remaining fragments of the poet's project. However, A History of the Future exerted a powerful and long-lasting influence on Polish culture. After a sketch of these fragmentary contents, drawn according to Pigoń and Skwarczyńska, the main aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of Mickiewicz's project in the history of Polish literature and culture. Stressed are some aspects of utopian and dystopian thought, as well as the interest of Mickiewicz and other Polish Romantics in scientific and technical achievements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main purpose of this paper is to show how a literary work (in this case Fidus comes, published in 1601 in Kraków) mirrors non only the author's humanist culture and worldviews, but also his intellectual and social relationships. In addition, it deals with the idea of a text as a form of making oneself present, demonstrating that Andreas Schoneus (1552-1616), a humanist and poet from Silesia being not able to travel with his former pupil (a Polish magnate, Jan Magnus Tęczyński, 1579-1637) to the Netherlands, makes his own book the addressee's companion. The analysed poem displays the importance of their former journey to Italy, and Padua's milieu is involved in its history. The book served also as a kind of "portfolio", commending the author to the Belgian humanist Justus Lipsius. The article is divided into four parts. The first presents short biographic profiles of the Fidus comes' author and its addressee. The second describes the work, its genesis, metamorphoses and context. The third analyses the portrayal of Tęczyński in the poem in the context of his further career. The last one explains the interplay of ideas and contexts and the main function of Schoneus' work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to explore the idea of scattered subjectivity in Nico Bleutge's poetry. Through the analysis of the collection nachts leuchten die schiffe (2017), this study will examine the compositional strategies and the sender configuration of Nico Bleutge's lyrical writing, contextualizing them in the scene of contemporary german-speaking avantgarde. Referring to Merlau-Ponty's idea of intercorporeality, as well as to Aby Warburg's concept of constellation, the contribution intends to demonstrate how in nachts leuchten die schiffe the poet tries to overcome the concept of identity on a content and formal level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to investigate the Surrealist interpretations of the poet Karel Hynek Mácha (1810-1836), proposed in the collective volume Ani labuť ani Lůna (Nor the Swan nor the Moon, 1936). Published with a clear polemical intention, it contains numerous criticisms of the official celebrations for the centenary of Mácha's death: a mythologized image of the author, canonized as "the" Czech romantic poet par excellence, poet of love as well as patriot. The Surrealists propose, instead, a reflection on the body and the sexual sphere in Mácha based on his Diary of 1835 and on the parts encrypted by the author. In Ani labuť ani Lůna, the omission of these parts in the version published posthumously becomes a tool for criticizing bourgeois morality within the Czechoslovak society of the time, as well shows the State's exploitation of the figure of Mácha. After presenting of the contents of the various essays in the publication, I will focus on the contributions of V. Nezval, Z. Kalandra, K. Teige and B. Brouk and on the "witness-to-the-truth" function that the Surrealists ascribe to the encrypted parts of the Diary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to investigate the presence of the representation of the sport of football in Italian poetry and the themes and motifs through which it recurs. In particular, through the literary evidence of poets such as Saba, Sereni, Giudici, Caproni, Pasolini, Spaziani, Porta, Raboni and others, a very suggestive path along which literature and football meet is highlighted: the two human activities originate from a certain amount of creativity; both allude to a human and historical dimension; both, finally, are connected to aesthetic pleasure and the dimension of play. Finally, we can see a triadic circularity between football, play and childhood, well expressed by poets such as Alfonso Gatto and Gianni Rodari. The path traced, which intercepts the feeling of the youngest on a terrain of consonances, but also of experiences and passions, can allow our youngsters to develop a renewed pleasure and enthusiasm in their relationship with the poetic text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is bibliographical and lists a series of translations of Russian poetry into Italian carried out between 1987 and 2022. Before the bibliographical part, there are some introductory pages that specify the types of publications examined: anthologies, journal issues related entirely or partially (but significantly) to Russian poetry in Italian, and single volumes devoted entirely to poets writing in Russian. The paper aims to provide materials for a future history of Russian poetry translated into Italian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article focuses on Yitzhak Katzenelson – a pedagogue, playwright and poet from Łódź – and his work on the epic poem The Song of the Murdered Jewish People written in Vittel and published in Paris in 1945. The Vittel internment camp for foreigners served as the first destination for Polish Jews with travel documents from Latin American countries, obtained primarily in the Warsaw ghetto in the so-called ‘Hotel Polski Affair’. Their final destination was Auschwitz, where they perished on arrival in May 1944. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper deals with the deconstruction of classical mythology in Polish contemporary poetry by women. The author focuses on how Arachne's and Penelope's myths are used by poets belonging to different generations, taking into account the theoretical approach of gender studies and in particular Nancy Miller's arachnology and its reception in Poland both by scholars and writers. Poems by Wisława Szymborska, Bogusława Latawiec, Anna Piwkowska and Izabela Filipiak are analysed from this point of view as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Chapter 8 of Auerbach's Mimesis on Canto X of Dante's Inferno, where Dante meets Farinata and Cavalcante, begins with a long quotation that ends just before Farinata's prediction of Dante's exile from Florence. It almost seems as if Auerbach does not want to directly address this issue that involves him personally. However, according to David Damrosch, we can find a complex overlay of Dante's characters, Dante the author and Auerbach himself: on the one hand, Dante, the "poet of the earthly world", took over earthly reality, passions and characters into his beyond. On the other hand, Auerbach writes in Istanbul a "German book" which "would not have been thinkable in any other tradition than in that of Hegel and the German Romantics". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the relation between poetry and disease in Emanuel Carnevali, an Italian poet who emigrated to the United States when he was seventeen and wrote his autobiography, poems, essays and short stories in English. Virtually unknown in Italy, Carnevali became famous in America within the group of poets called the "Lost Generation". His life was significantly affected by various diseases, above all lethargic encephalitis, which disabled him for twenty years and eventually led to his death. My short article attempts to a better understanding of how his condition affected his poetry, analysing the new translation of a most representative poem, "Sick Men's Hymn". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Plato's attitude toward the poets and poetry has always been a flashpoint of debate, controversy and notoriety, but most scholars have failed to see their central role in the ideal cities of the Republic and the Laws, that is, Callipolis and Magnesia. In this paper, I argue that in neither dialogue does Plato "exile" the poets, but, instead, believes they must, like all citizens, exercise the expertise proper to their profession, allowing them the right to become full-fledged participants in the productive class. Moreover, attention to certain details reveals that Plato harnesses both positive and negative factors in poetry to bring his ideal cities closer to a practical realization. The status of the poet and his craft in this context has rarely to my knowledge been addressed.A atitude de Platão com relação aos poetas e à poesia tem sempre sido um ponto de debate, controvérsia e notoriedade, mas a maioria dos estudiosos não consegue ver seu papel central nas cidades ideais da República e das Leis, ou seja, Callipolis e Magnésia. Neste artigo, defendo que em nenhum dos dois diálogos Platão exila os poetas, mas, ao contrário, acredita que eles devem, como todos os cidadãos, exercitar a competência própria à sua profissão, permitindo-lhes o direito de se tornarem participantes com todos os direitos da classe produtora. Principalmente, se prestarmos a atenção devida em certos detalhes, veremos que Platão controla tanto os fatores positivos, como os negativos na poesia, para aproximar mais suas cidades ideais da realização prática. A meu ver, o estatuto do poeta e de sua habilidade, nesse contexto, foram raramente estudados.