Notes on contributors.
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N otes on Contributors
Wacław Borowy (1890— 1950)—o u tstan d in g historian o f Polish litera
ture, essayist and literary critic, long-tim e professor o f W arsaw U niversity, w rote several im p o rtan t book s including 18th-Century
Polish Poetry (1948), collection o f essays Gauntlets o f Stone (1932)
and Today, Yesterday (1934), and num erous studies on A dam M ickiewicz, C yprian N orw id and Stefan Ż erom ski which cam e o ut as separate b o ok s after his death. His theoretical literary credo was expressed in his 1921 bo oklet On L iterary Influences and
Dependencies and developed in later essays. He studied English
literature too. H e w rote the only Polish study on G. K. C hesterton (1929) so far, and the first Polish study on T. S. Eliot (1936). His widely read and often qu oted studies earned Borowy the re p u ta tio n o f a classic o f Polish literary criticism .
Maria Janion—histo rian o f literature, P rofessor at the In stitu te o f
Literary Studies, Polish A cadem y o f Sciences and Letters. All her works deal w ith the greatest achievem ents o f Polish and foreign R om antic literatu re in the fram e o f the leading issues o f E uropean culture. H er rem aining dissertations are focused on the vitality o f R om an tic m otifs in the 20th-century thought, literature and culture in general, here and abroad.
Marta Pi wińska—historian o f literature, Professor at the Institute
o f Literary Studies, Polish A cadem y o f Sciences and Letters, mainly concerned with Polish literature o f R om anticism .
Zofia Stefanowska— historian o f literature, Professor at the Institute
o f Literary Studies, Polish A cadem y o f Sciences and Letters. A uthor o f several dissertations on Polish literature o f the R o m antic period, especially on M ickiewicz in the context o f his ideology.
Alina Witkowska—h istorian o f literature, P rofessor at the Institute
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H er m ain interest lies in the literature o f the 1st h a lf of 19th cen tu ry in relation to the then c u rren t concept o f natio n as well as Slavonic and bucolic character, bou nd to the ru ral existence. W hat she practices is b o th history o f literary m otifs and history o f ideas. The au th o r o f significant books in this dom ain.
