Author: TUREY Klara
Title: Boleslaw Prus and Romanticism.
- Series: Literary Studies vol. VIII
- Place of issue: Lviv
- Year of publication: 1937
- Publisher: Printed by Filomata
- Number of pages: [4], 224, [1].
- Illustrations, maps: ---
- Size: 21.5 cm
- Binding: publisher's soft
- Condition: cover scuffs, trace of small dampstain on bottom margin, block uncut!
- ISBN: ---
Description:
The book is an extended dissertation on the literary works of Boleslaw Prus, who wrote his works mainly in the positivist trend, and his relationship with the ideals and assumptions of the Romantic era.
Table of contents:
Introduction: Romanticism after 1863.
Romantic individualism
Individualism as a problem of culture
Individualism in "Lalka"
Individualism and the concept of the role of the gentile in "Emancipantes"
Individualism in "Pharaoh"
Individualism in Prus vs. Flaubert
Individualism in Prus and romantic individualism
Literary experience
Literary experience in Romanticism
The role of literary experience in "The Doll"
Critical position on the role of literary experience
Romantic love
The concept of love in the Romantic era
Love in the early works of Prus
Romantic love in "The Doll"
Love in "Lalka" and in "Dziady"
Criticism of romantic love
Prus' theory of love and view of the role of women
Psychopathology
Psychopathology in the Romantic era
Psychopathology in Prus
Psychopathology in Flaubert
Psychological method
Romantic psychology of the child
The child in Romanticism
Romantic psychology of the child in Prus
Sentimental and romantic characters
Romanticism in Prus' ideology
Conclusion: The romantic basis of Prus's work