Pogoda w czasach romantyków
In Romanticism, ‘weather’ was not seen only as a meteorological phenomenon. A symbolic meaning was also ascribed to it. Hence, even the title of the book alone can be read through a literal and a metaphorical lens. The Romantics’ interest in nature, the matter of weather and extreme phenomena is wel...
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| Formato: | Online |
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| Idioma: | polaco |
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Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
2024
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| Acceso en liña: | ONIX_20240916_9788367637589_197 |
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| Summary: | In Romanticism, ‘weather’ was not seen only as a meteorological phenomenon. A symbolic meaning was also ascribed to it. Hence, even the title of the book alone can be read through a literal and a metaphorical lens. The Romantics’ interest in nature, the matter of weather and extreme phenomena is well known. It is common knowledge that ‘nice weather’ was not to the Romantics’ taste. It was storms, thunder and lighting, or volcanic eruptions that were the object of their fascination. In literature, these phenomena, as one can read in the introduction to the book, ‘constituted a suggestive equivalent of emotions and moods, the significant character of the local colour, a sign of divine intervention and mystical secrets of nature, as well as a useful metaphor in political allusions’. The author of the work does not, however, follow this route. She narrows the topic down. She is mostly interested in the sphere of meteorology, not the Romantic imaginarium. She highlights texts which are discursive in nature: scientific works, notes and press articles, memoirs and diaries, travel accounts and descriptions, meteorological records, or folk prophecies. The author presents these in eight sections of the anthology, titled: ‘In Science’, ‘In the Press’, ‘In the Every-day’, ‘On the Road’, ‘At War’, ‘Pleasures’, ‘Extraordinary Phenomena’ and ‘Superstition’. The rich selection of highly diverse texts allows for quite a broad introduction to the interests of the Romantic generation in meteorology. (Dr hab. Anna Kurska) |
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