Monika Kulesza
Terminus, Tom 25, zeszyt 3 (68) 2023, 2023, s. 375 - 386
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843844TE.23.022.18210Monika Kulesza
Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 19, Numer 1, Tom 19 (2019), s. 71 - 78
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.19.007.11697Académie Française Acceptance Speech: between the past and the future
Académie Française has been a guardian of tradition and a symbol of continuity of the French literaturę and culture for nearly four hundred years. The speeches provide a link between the past and the future at least by the obligation of a new member, elected to replace one that passed away, to give a eulogy presenting glory and praising works of his/her predecessor. Based on several speeches, the paper discusses, in the first place, evolution of reflections on literature and predecessors’ works and, in the second place, provides an example of breaking with tradition: election of the first woman to Académie Française and justification of this radical change. The speeches constitute a bulwark of tradition, since their form and the way predecessors are presented do not change but constitute a reflection of change.
Monika Kulesza
Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 14, Numer 4, Tom 14 (2014), s. 294 - 304
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.13.023.2725Moralists and their collections: La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Mme de Pringy
The article is based on the review of works by three authors : La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, and Mme de Pringy. Following brief consideration of the status of the author and moralist, the author tries to demonstrate their works to be collections of thoughts and reflections moral in nature and, as in the case of every collection, never constitute a complete work. Like curios in a cabinet of curiosities, reflections and portraits in the works of moralists are continuously changing in line with intentions of the collector, who adds or rejects fragments, or changes their sequence.