Balloons over Puławy. Eighteenth-century rituals of skyward expeditions in a poetic description
The article discusses literary testimonies of balloon flights in the 18th century, which in the eyes of the people of the time rose to the rank of a kind of ‘secular ritual’. The analysis of two texts – Adam Naruszewicz's poem Balon [The balloon] and Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin's poem Balo...
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Napis
2025
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | The article discusses literary testimonies of balloon flights in the 18th century, which in the eyes of the people of the time rose to the rank of a kind of ‘secular ritual’. The analysis of two texts – Adam Naruszewicz's poem Balon [The balloon] and Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin's poem Balon czyli wieczory puławskie [The balloon, or Evenings in Puławy] – makes it possible to distinguish two ways of perceiving the groundbreaking event. The first work is characterised by admiration and a solemn style, while Kniaźnin's text is humorous, which results in the desacralisation of the flight it describes. |
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