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Current Issue

Vol. 69 No. 1 (2026): Heritage in Culture: Genre Studies and Genealogy
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THEME EDITOR: Tatiana Czerska
MAIN SECTION EDITOR: Anna Zatora, Jarosław Płuciennik

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Promotion of Culture Fund.
Co-financed by the University of Lodz.

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Published: 2026-05-12

EDITORIAL

  • Heritage in Culture: Genre Studies and Genealogy

    Tatiana Czerska
    11-26
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/1

Issue Theme — Articles

  • The Mother’s and the Daughter’s Gaze: A Familial Portrait of Mary Stuart in the Works of Izabela Czartoryska and Maria Wirtemberska

    Joanna Miętki
    29-39
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/8
  • Belonging after 1948: Women’s Writing and the Changing Boundaries of Polish-Jewish Literature

    Gabriela Jeżak
    41-58
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/9
  • The Mourning Document as Personal Document Literature

    Magdalena Stefańska
    59-73
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/2
  • Dante’s Family Roots: Cacciaguida, the Holy War, and True Nobility in the Age of Proto-Mercantilism

    Marino A. Balducci
    75-88
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/10
  • “If I Want to Imagine a Fictive Nation…”: The Balzacian Model of the Opening Passage in Roland Barthes’ Writing

    Norbert Gacek
    89-102
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/11
  • “Citrus” Novels. The Phenomenon of Contemporary Italian Family Sagas

    Katarzyna Kowalik
    103-118
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/12
  • The "Maternal Gothic": Considerations on the Genre

    Agnieszka Gawron
    119-140
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/16

Issue Theme — Essays

Main Section — Articles

  • In a Region of Unlikeness. The Generic Worldview of Modern Hymnal Verse (Theoretical Preliminaries)

    Wojciech Mazurek
    193-219
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/17
  • Philosophical Perspectives on Tove Jansson’s "Moominsummer Madness" through Walter Benjamin’s Ideas of Play

    Pirjo Suvilehto, Jarosław Płuciennik
    221-235
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/18
  • Cognitive approaches to genological hybridity in columns, essays, and reportage

    Łukasz Trojanowski
    237-253
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/19

Main Section — Essays

  • The Consequences of „Throw off Pantałyk”: Marian Pilot’s Pantałyk as a Parabolic

    Magdalena Idzikowska
    257-277
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/20
  • Jan Lechoń’s Voice like “a broken pot”

    Ewelina Radion
    279-295
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/21
  • Pictorial Narratives in the Visual Artwork of Iwona Siwek-Front

    Agnieszka Kunda
    297-313
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/22

Main Section — Materials to "The Companion of the Literary Genres"

  • Retelling in Literature

    Kinga Matuszko, Mikołaj Głos
    317-325
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/3

Main Section — Reviews

Main Section — Miscellanea

  • Professor Teresa Cieślikowska (1926–2026) Obituary

    Jarosław Płuciennik
    361-362
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/25
  • Report on the ceremony to name the lecture room at the Faculty of Philology, University of Łódź, after Professor Stefania Skwarczyńska

    Irena Hübner
    363-369
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.26485/ZRL/2026/69.1/26
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