Writers’ Lives and Careers Intermingled With Linguistic Creations of their Works

The author draws up her attention to a certain, so far unnoticed, methodological problem connected with the presence of regionalisms in literary works written in the common Polish language. Regionalisms most frequently appear in literary works due to writer-intended stylizations. They can also be used in belles-lettres if a writer uses his own regional variety of the national language. This article presents another way for introduction of linguistic regionalisms into literary works – pursuant to the “cognitive-emotional fascination of the region”. According to the author, this notion is not a scientific category, but solely a proper way to describe specific situations in the literature. She bases her considerations on the cognitive-emotional fascination of Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910) by the Polish language of the noble backwoods of the Grodno region in her novels On the Niemen and Bene nati and of Józef Łobodowski (1909–1988) by the regional Polish language of the Polish-Ukrainian border region in his Ukrainian Poems