Artykuł 2020
Autorzy / redaktorzy: Katarzyna Lisiecka
Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
This article analyzes the complex connections and interrelations between opera and the
French melodrama of the late 18th and early 19th century, using Ludwig van Beethoven’s
1814 opera Fidelio as a vantage point. Underpinning the author’s inquiry is the question
about the ways…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2020.11-10 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Artykuł 2020
Autorzy / redaktorzy: Anna Szczepan-Wojnarska
Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
This paper focuses on the melodramatic features in Almayer’s Folly, the first part
of The Malay Trilogy by Joseph Conrad, and their significance for the interpretation of the
novel. The poetics of melodrama and opera is reflected in various aspects of Conrad’s
prose, such as e…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2020.11-09 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Artykuł 2020
Autorzy / redaktorzy: Beata Gaj
Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The article deals with the unique features of the only surviving 2nd century CE. work
by Longos, i.e. stories about the love of a shepherd couple, Dafnis and Chloe. The work
shows the traits both of the ancient narrative, the short story, the bucolic, and the
romance as well a…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2020.11-08 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Artykuł 2020
Autorzy / redaktorzy: Aleksandra Kamińska
Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The aim of this paper is to analyze the theme of fratricide in its visual, moral and verbal
aspect. Fratricide, thanks to the reference to the sublime, is presented in a double
aspect: as an insurmountable taboo and as a driving force that allows the hero to change
his fate. T…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2020.11-07 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Artykuł 2020
Autorzy / redaktorzy: Michał Bajer
Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The article touches upon new threads as regards the Polish reception of J.J. Rousseau’s
melodrama Pygmalion so as to settle a few debatable issues. For that purpose, the
author ventures to study a broader array of source texts: apart from the well-known
translation by T.K. Węg…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2020.11-06 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Artykuł 2020
Autorzy / redaktorzy: Ewa Szczepan
Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The article is devoted to intertextuality in the nineteenth-century dramatic texts inspired
by other literary forms. The group of melodramas rewritten from texts of various literary
genres includes works both secondary and literally impoverished, as well as some that
are inter…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2020.11-05 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Artykuł 2020
Autorzy / redaktorzy: Anna Reglińska-Jemioł
Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The proposal to look at the topic of melodrama through the prism of dance seems to
be not only cognitively interesting, but also justified in terms of academic research.
This theatre performance, established in the 18th century, becoming a new genre
of popular art, clearly emp…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2020.11-04 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Artykuł 2020
Autorzy / redaktorzy: Iwona Puchalska
Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The term “melologo”, used sporadically in modern language and treated as an
Italian synonym for melodrama, was in its genesis associated with the beginnings
of melodramma, although it had a distinct genre and stylistic distinctiveness. The aim
of the article is to make this te…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2020.11-03 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Artykuł 2020
Autorzy / redaktorzy: Tomasz Wysłobocki
Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
The main goal of the article is to inscribe the formation, at the turn of the 18th century,
of the melodrama in a broader context in order to show that the creation of this
dramatic genre was not a result of one man’s talent or pure coincidence but actually
a result of the his…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2020.11-02 · ISSN: 2081-8718
Artykuł 2020
Autorzy / redaktorzy: Dobrochna Ratajczakowa
Publikacja nadrzędna: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
In the Polish academic context, melodrama is as fascinating, as it is underrepresented
a phenomenon. This is mostly because melodrama’s roots are theatrical; a reason why,
within the literary drama bounds, the genre has been considered a hybrid since the
Antiquity. This articl…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2020.11-01 · ISSN: 2081-8718