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| Edition: | 1 |
| Place and year of publication: | Warszawa 2025 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 978-83-235-6962-6 |
| EAN: | 9788323569626 |
| Number of page: | 264 |
| Binding: | Twarda |
| Format: | 17x24 cm |
| Weight: | 0 |
“To Move the Curtain of the Grave”. Cemetery Landscape and Funeral Motifs in Juliusz Słowacki’s Works
The book shows maturation of Juliusz Słowacki's work and thoughts reflected in funeral tropes: death, mourning, grave, cemetery, dead bodies, melancholy and other thanatic motifs existing in an extremely large number in Słowacki’s works. The reflections are related to the area of existence and poetic imagination, thus implying an interdisciplinary context, referring to art. (mainly painting), sepulchral architecture, philosophy, religious thought and anthropology.
Keywords: Juliusz Słowacki, funeral motifs, cemetery, existence, Romanticism, mourning, death motif
The book shows maturation of Juliusz Słowacki's work and thoughts reflected in funeral tropes: death, mourning, grave, cemetery, dead bodies, melancholy and other thanatic motifs existing in an extremely large number in Słowacki’s works. The reflections are related to the area of existence and poetic imagination, thus implying an interdisciplinary context, referring to art. (mainly painting), sepulchral architecture, philosophy, religious thought and anthropology.
Keywords: Juliusz Słowacki, funeral motifs, cemetery, existence, Romanticism, mourning, death motif
