@ARTICLE{Pałucka_Agnieszka_“My_2024, author={Pałucka, Agnieszka}, number={No 3 (384)}, journal={Ruch Literacki}, pages={317-335}, howpublished={online}, year={2024}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka}, publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki}, abstract={This article examines the topos of blindness in Juliusz Słowacki’s unfinished drama Horsztyński. The metaphorical blindness of the drama’s main character, Szczęsny, seems to belie the Romantic belief that the loss of natural vision is compensated by the shar-pening of the inner senses, when oculis corporis are replaced by oculis mentis. Nonethe-less, the article argues, Słowacki’s use of the topos of blindness falls in with some aspects of the Romantic beliefs concerning loss of vision.}, type={Artykuł}, title={“My eyes submerged in darkness... yet I do not understand”: The topos of blindness in Juliusz Słowacki’s Horsztyński revisited}, URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/134017/2024-03-RL-02.pdf}, keywords={19th century Polish literature, Romanticism, blindness and ‘second sight’, Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849)}, }