Kulturowe mity współczesności w perspektywie badań nad kulturą literacką

Abstract

The aim of the article is to present a proposal of cultural research of contemporary myths understood as essential for a given community, expressed emblematically, created and present in cultural texts, sets of meanings integrating and distinguishing this community, giving meaning to its existence. The author presents five elements of the paradigm of contemporary Polish mythography, considered by her to be constitutive for Polish culture and shaping the community of values: siege, God – honour – Homeland, Borderlands, Jews, freedom – equality – brotherhood. The article contains an initial outline of the mythocritics: making descriptions, evaluations and conclusions, established on the basis of works which are the exemplification of particular myths, determining changes in the perception of tradition, making an attempt to empirically answer the questions which elements of tradition and why remain recognizable (and for whom), and which lose their legibility or the context of their occurrence radically changes. The presented research project assumes the mapping of the value of Polish imaginarium.