Published: 2021-09-291

Mitopia. Miejsce mitu w obrazie świata utopijnej wyspy Nipu w powieści Ignacego Krasickiego Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki

Kamila Żukowska
Prace Literaturoznawcze
Section: Interpretations
https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.5609

Abstract

Mythopia. The Role of the Myth in the Utopian Image of Nipu Island in the novel ‘Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki’ by Ignacy Krasicki

The subject of the chapter is a phenomenon of literary utopia, as it appears in Ignacy Krasicki’s novel Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki. As created by Krasicki, Nipu Island has all the distinctive features of conventional utopian novel – the genre which was initiated by More, but gained popularity in the Enlightenment. Nevertheless, my aim is to show that the genre in question was used by Krasicki in a completely new way to present the Polish form of the myth of golden age. As a consequence the society of Nipu is conservative in its axiology but utopian in its organisational structure. This combination of utopian paradigm with the mythical one is called in the paper a “mythopia”.

Keywords:

Ignacy Krasicki, Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki, utopia, mit, oświecenie

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Żukowska, K. (2021). Mitopia. Miejsce mitu w obrazie świata utopijnej wyspy Nipu w powieści Ignacego Krasickiego Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki. Prace Literaturoznawcze, (9). https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.5609

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