„Panienka”, „Godzina Polski”, 1916: Irena Tuwim’s Literary Debut

Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany

doi:10.18778/2299-7458.08.22

Authors

Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany Adam Mickiewicz University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-2278

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2299-7458.08.22

Keywords:

Irena Tuwim, Polish poetry, debut, fate, emancipation

Abstract

The author of the article deals with the poetic newspaper debut of Irena Tuwim (1898-1987), an outstanding author and translator of children’s literature, but also a poet who is forgotten or read only on the margin of the literary output of her brother, Julian Tuwim (1894-1953). The poem titled Panienka (A Maiden), published in Godzina Polski in 1916, is hereby subjected to a contextual analysis and referred to other poems by Irena Tuwim as well as confronted with her existence, also in the auto-emancipatory dimension.

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Author Biography

Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany, Adam Mickiewicz University

Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany (born 20 December 1970 in Poznań) – professor, specialist in Polish studies, comparatist, essayist, author of poems as well as poetic and autobiographical prose (an award in K.K. Baczyński Competition, 2006). She specialises in poetry and its interpretation as well as the reception of poets writing in German and French in Poland; the Holocaust; synapses of poetry and visual arts; and European and Polish literary essay. She is the author of numerous books, including: Rilke poetów polskich (2004; 2nd edition 2017), Rycerz i Śmierć. O ‘Elegiach duinejskich’ Rainera Marii Rilkego (2010; 2nd edition, 2015), Interlinie w ciemności. Jednak interpretacja (2012), ‘Все поэты жиды’. Antytotalitarne gesty poetyckie i kreacyjne wobec Zagłady oraz innych doświadczeń granicznych (2013), Skąd się bierze lekcja polskiego? Scenariusze, pomysły, konteksty (2016), and Nikt nie widzi dobrze. Eseje (2018), as well as of a volume of prose titled Zielony promień (2006). She also co-edited the collection of Anna Pogonowska’s poems, Wiersze (nie)zapomniane (2018). She has published about 300 scholarly papers and drafts. She is the co-author of a textbook titled Staropolskie korzenie współczesności (2004). The academic supervisor of the Association of Jewish Culture and Literature Lovers “Dabru emet” (UAM). Mother of Tobiasz and Lena Miriam.

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