Włodzimierz Odojewski’s writing archive in the light of genetic criticism. Initial study

Jędrzej Krystek; Jolanta Nawrot; Dagmara Nowakowska

doi:10.18778/1505-9057.55.07

Authors

Jędrzej Krystek M.A., Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Institute of Polish Philology, Department of Literature of Romanticism, ul. Fredry 10, 61-712 Poznań https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5690-8948
Jolanta Nawrot M.A., Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Institute of Polish Philology, Department of Literature of Romanticism, ul. Fredry 10, 61-712 Poznań https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4500-2806
Dagmara Nowakowska M.A., Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Institute of Polish Philology, Department of Literature of Romanticism, ul. Fredry 10, 61-712 Poznań https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9941-901X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.55.07

Keywords:

Włodzimierz Odojewski, editorship, genetic criticism, textual studies, avant-texte, Poznań, writing archive

Abstract

The article consists of two parts. The first includes a presentation of the records collected in the Archive of Włodzimierz Odojewski in Poznań and a reflection on the writer’s creative method. The second part presents an outline of research prospects in the field of genetic criticism, which opens materials gathered in that archive. The authors discussed how to study typescripts and manuscripts of the writer and how editors should prepare them, bearing in mind Odojewski’s specific work method.

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Author Biographies

Jędrzej Krystek, M.A., Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Institute of Polish Philology, Department of Literature of Romanticism, ul. Fredry 10, 61-712 Poznań

Jędrzej Krystek, M.A.; he was born in Poznań where he still lives. He graduated there from the Polish Studies, he is enrolled at the Faculty Doctoral College at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, at the Institute of Polish Philology, member of the Department of the Literature of Romanticism. He is the author of interpretative studies and analytical articles. He published in, e.g. “Czas Kultury”, “Ars Inter Culturas”, “Arteon”, and collective works. He participated in several regional-biographical projects within the Greater Poland Voivodship. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on the mysticism of Juliusz Słowacki as a manifestation of Lebensphilosophie.

Jolanta Nawrot, M.A., Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Institute of Polish Philology, Department of Literature of Romanticism, ul. Fredry 10, 61-712 Poznań

Jolanta Nawrot, M.A., doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, graduate of Poznań Polish studies. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation entitled Krytyka artystyczna i publicystyka Włodzimierza Odojewskiego na podstawie materiałów archiwalnych Radia Wolna Europa (lata 70.–90. XX wieku) [Artistic and journalistic criticism of Włodzimierz Odojewski based on archival material of Radio Free Europe] under the academic supervision of Professor Agnieszka Rydz. She is interested in Polish literature of the 20th and the 21st centuries, in particular the works by Włodzimierz Odojewski and the most recent works.

Dagmara Nowakowska, M.A., Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Institute of Polish Philology, Department of Literature of Romanticism, ul. Fredry 10, 61-712 Poznań

Dagmara Nowakowska, Ph.D., documentalist, she works at Włodzimierz Odojewski Archive at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where since 2011 she has been studying and managing the writer’s output. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled Indie romantyków. Z recepcji Indii w epoce polskiego romantyzmu. [India of the Romantics. From the reception of India in Polish Romanticism] She is interested in the life of the post-WWII intellectual emigrant circles, the history of European Indian studies, biographical studies, and literary regional studies. She cooperates with the Greater Poland Cultural Society. She published in academic journals (e.g. “Studia Norwidiana”, “Pamiętnik Literacki”), and in collective works. She co-authored the literary guidebook Na tropach Adama Mickiewicza w Wielkopolsce [Tracing Adam Mickiewicz through Greater Poland].

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