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The paper refers to the changes in Henryk Sienkiewicz's output reception that took place in the 1960s. The background of the changes is the historical policy of Polish People's Republic shaped at that time by the influence of the communist authorities' argument with the Catholic Church over the ideological dimension of The Millennium of the Polish State celebration. The subject of the analysis contained in this paper are selected debates over Trylogia (The Trilogy) inspired by its writer's 50th death anniversary. Common element of the discussion about Sienkiewicz's image of the 17th century is an attempt to understate the associations connected with national mythology and Sarmatian ideology for the reception that calls for universal values and that sets the work into the context of popular culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses Piotr Kurpiewski's book Historia na ekranie Polski Ludowej [History on the screen of Polish People's Republic]. Kurpiewski uses the concept of the politics of history to show the relationship between Polish postwar films and their political context. He examines the production process of individual films from the moment of their making to the moment(s) of their reception. From this point of view the historical film becomes one of the main ideological instruments, serving to legitimize the then sociopolitical regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the important ontological assumptions of the poetic reality created in Tomasz Różycki's poems is the multiplication of reality. The article aims to describe one of the characteristic “anti-worlds” in his work - the world of the dead. Within the analytical framework the author of the article placed the presumable lyrical ego’s ability to penetrate the borders of death and his relationships with “the other side” of existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Relying on post-war biographies of Henryk Sienkiewicz, the article provides an insight into how his life as a writer was modelled through recurring similarities and differences of representation. Both factual and methodological portrayals seem uniform. In 1954 the biographical calendar presented by Julian Krzyżanowski became a point of reference for all following profiles of Sienkiewicz. Moreover, the biographers seem to utilize personal documents in a similar manner - they are to validate their stories. The resulting life writing appears to hold peculiar control over the protagonist's life, suggesting that special-temporal distance allows us to see more than Sienkiewicz did himself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the evolution of the portraits of Henryk Sienkiewicz the writer in three contemporary critical studies which connect the presentation of his work with outlines of its anthropological, psychological, social and ideological contexts. Founded on the premise that a work of literary criticism must take account of the cultural background of its object, these studies construct their biographical portraits granting all of the writer's words, regardless of their fictional or non-fictional status, the value of documentary evidence. It seems that all three studies, which also reach out to Henryk Sienkiewicz's recently published complete correspondence, tend to replace the traditional image of the patriotic author the The Knights of the Cross with that of a writer keenly aware of the issues that preoccupied the minds of contemporary Europeans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article concerns a story, usually seen by Conrad scholars as a simple example of reference to Polish history and situated at two research levels, namely romantic and biographical. The aim of the article is to indicate the ambiguity of the two approaches, mainly due to majority of literary games depriving the piece of documentary text simplicity, and also the story's background about patriotic dedication which adds new cultural and political references to the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]