@ARTICLE{Troszyński_Marek_The_2024,
 author={Troszyński, Marek},
 number={No 3 (384)},
 journal={Ruch Literacki},
 pages={305-315},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2024},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka},
 publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki},
 abstract={This article discusses a range of national, axiological and symbolic motifs in Juliusz Słowacki’s Kordian in the context of the poet’s changing attitude towards the idea of a national uprising. That evolution can be traced throughout his work, especially in his Poems, Volume III (1833). In Kordian, the article argues, Słowacki does not hide his displeasure with readers who fail to appreciate the universal appeal of poetry and pre-sents, in response to Adam Mickiewicz’s accusations, a rival vision of national struggle. Kordian has the dramatic structure of an inverted Shakespeare tragedy with a number of Satanist elements (most notably the introductory ‘Preparations’). The key role is given to three weapons – the sword, the dagger and the bayonet. Each of them symbolizes a dis-tinct value system, i.e. the chivalric ethos, the code of the assassins, and the military code respectively. A close analysis of the multilevel significance and metaphoric function of various scenes and objects shows that Kordian is shaped by a pattern of axiological conflicts and contradictions.},
 type={Artykuł},
 title={The sword, the dagger, or the bayonet: Kordian’s demonic Prometheism},
 URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/134016/2024-03-RL-01.pdf},
 keywords={19th century Polish literature, Romanticism, poetics of drama, space construction in drama, Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855)},
}