Czesław Miłosz on Conrad’s Polish stereotypes

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Czesław Miłosz on Conrad’s Polish stereotypes

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dc.contributor.author	Dudek, Jolanta [SAP11009702]	pl
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-09T14:24:04Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-09T14:24:04Z
dc.date.issued	2014	pl
dc.identifier.issn	1899-3028	pl
dc.identifier.uri	http://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/12328
dc.language	eng	pl
dc.rights	Dozwolony użytek utworów chronionych	*
dc.rights.uri	http://ruj.uj.edu.pl/4dspace/License/copyright/licencja_copyright.pdf	*
dc.title	Czesław Miłosz on Conrad’s Polish stereotypes	pl
dc.type	JournalArticle	pl
dc.description.physical	109-117	pl
dc.description.additional	Bibliogr. s. 116-117. Streszcz. ang.	pl
dc.identifier.weblink	https://www.ejournals.eu/Yearbook-of-Conrad-Studies/2014/Issue-IX/art/4763/	pl
dc.abstract.en	In an essay entitled Conrad’s Stereotypes - published in 1957 - Miłosz sees Conrad as "the typical old Polish nobleman who remained faithful to the way in which he had lived and thought as a young man." Miłosz speaks of his own affi nity with Conrad (and Mickiewicz), explaining that it derives from a set of shared emotional and historical experiences that were deeply ingrained in the minds of the inhabitants of the ‘Eastern Borderlands’of the old Polish-Lithuanian- Ruthenian Commonwealth. This ‘Eastern Borderlands’ cultural identity may well have enabled Conrad to give an authentic portrayal of the Russian characters in Under Western Eyes. The counterpart to Mickiewicz’s and Conrad’s condemnation of autocracy and the fairness of their attitude towards Russians was Miłosz’s willingness to maintain friendly relations with contemporary Russian ‘dissidents’ who had stood up against the oppressive political system of the Soviet Union. Surprisingly, however, he does not draw any parallels between the Polish stereotype of Russia and the portrayal of Russia which is to be found in Russian political literature. Miłosz concludes by observing that in Under Western Eyes it was only through the purely artistic merits of his writing that Conrad could have hoped to win over his English-speaking readers, while at the same time remaining "faithful to a tradition that would have seemed exotic to anyone living in another country" - and for this achievement he deserves praise.	pl
dc.subject.en	Czesław Miłosz	pl
dc.subject.en	Joseph Conrad	pl
dc.subject.en	Poland	pl
dc.subject.en	Lithuania	pl
dc.subject.en	Ruthenia	pl
dc.subject.en	Ukraine	pl
dc.subject.en	Russia	pl
dc.subject.en	Apollo Korzeniowski	pl
dc.subject.en	Adam Mickiewicz	pl
dc.subject.en	Astolphe de Custine	pl
dc.subject.en	"Poland and Muscovy"	pl
dc.subject.en	"Forefathers' Eve"	pl
dc.subject.en	"Under Western Eyes"	pl
dc.subject.en	"The Secret Agent"	pl
dc.subject.en	"Heart of Darkness"	pl
dc.subject.en	"A Treatise on Poetry"	pl
dc.subject.en	"A Treatise on Morality"	pl
dc.description.volume	9	pl
dc.identifier.doi	10.4467/20843941YC.14.008.3080	pl
dc.identifier.eissn	2084-3941	pl
dc.title.journal	Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Poland)	pl
dc.language.container	eng	pl
dc.date.accession	2015-07-09	pl
dc.affiliation	Wydział Polonistyki : Katedra Teorii Literatury	pl
dc.subtype	Article	pl
dc.rights.original	OTHER; otwarte czasopismo; ostateczna wersja wydawcy; po opublikowaniu; 12;	pl
dc.identifier.project	ROD UJ / P	pl
.pointsMNiSW	[2014 B]: 7