Kody i symbole narodowe w komunikowaniu literackim na Górnym Śląsku przełomu XIX i XX wieku

Abstract

The paper is an attempt at an analysis of cultural communication codes which existed in Polish literature of the period of the partitions. The comparative research concentrates on the conventions and literary motives present in the texts of Silesian writers, on the forms of their preference — tales, patriotic poems and songs, fictionalized historical anecdotes, serial novels, as well as on the symbols figuring in them (eagle, knight, sleeping soldiers) and functioning within the literary circulation across Poland. Literary conventions were projected by numerous Upper - Silesian writers, e.g. J. Mehl, J. Kupiec, J. Ligon, priests: N. Bonczyk, E. Szramek, J. N. Jarori, F. Stateczny, L. Skowronek. The promotion of Polish books, published mainly in Cracow, was intensive in Silesian periodicals, which allowed for the inclusion of Silesia into the Polish literary circulation.