Hope in literature

Authors

  • Piotr Śliwiński Zakład Poetyki i Krytyki Literackiej Instytutu Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza

Keywords:

Key words, hope, passion, awareness, imagination, crisis, ethics, irony, poetry

Abstract

The article presents the ways of defining and understanding hope in Polish, English and American literature. The basic theses are: 1) hope is an ambivalent phenomenon, 2) hope is connected with the work of consciousness and imagination, 3) hope conjures up visions of the alternative existential and social solutions, 4) hope is a passion and a way of knowing, 5) hope constitutes the keystone of artistic and academic activity.

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