The Pope of Polish Studies. A few remarks on literary anthropology, practical rhetoric and Polish philology in the perspective of the thought of John Paul II

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The pope, John Paul 2, was a former student of Polish philology in Cracow. He was a poet and play writer alluding to neoromantic style of Young Poland literature. He defended Polish tradition in the globalizing modern world. His literary anthropology and practical rhetoric were founded on this challenging tradition and on Latin civilization. Because of their deep metaphysical wisdom they are still inspiring for many literary critics students of Polish philology.

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 Dorota Heck, University of Wrocław

Polish historian and literary critic, professor of humanities.
In 1985, she graduated from Polish studies at the University of Wrocław. She also studied classical philology. In 1988, she started working at the Higher Pedagogical School in Opole. In 1992, she defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Wrocław: Dispute or lament? From the problems of values in Polish essay writing in the years 1957–1986, written under the supervision of Wojciech Głowa and started working at this university, at the Institute of Polish Philology. In 2005, she obtained her habilitation degree based on the thesis "Without a sign, without a trace, without a word". In the circle of problems of spirituality in contemporary Polish literature, In 2015, she received the title of professor of humanities.
Since 2013, she has been the chairman of the jury of the Czterech Kolumn Literary Awards.

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Published

2017-11-29

How to Cite

Heck, D. “The Pope of Polish Studies. A Few Remarks on Literary Anthropology, Practical Rhetoric and Polish Philology in the Perspective of the Thought of John Paul II”. University of Zielona Góra Publishing House, vol. 3, no. 1, Nov. 2017, pp. 31-40, doi:10.59444/2017serredbed_seu1r2.

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978-83-7842-288-4

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978-83-7842-288-4