THE OBITUARIES OF KORNEL UJEJSKI CONSIDERED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CHANGING FORM OF POLISH JOURNAL OBITUARY AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES. A CONTRIBUTION TO STUDIES

This article discusses ways of constructing the 19th century Polish journal obituary through a selection of obituaries of Kornel Ujejski from the years 1897-1898. One of the most important aspects of this analysis is the relationship between the conventional and the particular in the sections of these obituaries which consider the reception of Ujejski’s works. The author also considers the problem of the connections between the socially determined poetics of the obituary, the history of literature and literary criticism, which acquires particular importance in the context of obituaries of writers and also in the spe-cific form of 19th century obituary known as “literary obituary”. This paper shows how the obituary is a particularly useful genre in the research of literary reception