@ARTICLE{Bagłajewski_Andrzej_Imagined_2018, author={Bagłajewski, Andrzej}, number={No 4 (349)}, journal={Ruch Literacki}, pages={373-390}, howpublished={online}, year={2018}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka}, publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki}, abstract={Whereas Wincenty Pol’s topographical verse has usually been viewed as an expression of a ‘sentimental geography’, this article proposes a new reading of a well-known poem A Song about Our Land by Wincenty Pol in terms of ‘imagined geography’, a key term of an approach inspired by geopoetics and postcolonial studies. ‘Imagined geography’ refers to a poetic map, i.e. travelogue laced with motifs from the repository of national heritage. Its images, reshaped by the writer’s imagination, form an ideologically charged whole in which an emotive sense of place or scenery (‘touching the heart’) uncovers a complex cultural stratigraphy of the ‘imagined geography’. In the light of this approach, based on the insights of geopoetics, Wincenty Pol’s poem can be treated as textual representation of a map of the real and the symbolic territory of Poland.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Imagined geography in Wincenty Pol’s “A Song of Our Land”}, URL={http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/106978/PDF/RL%204-18%202-Bag%C5%82ajewski.pdf}, doi={10.24425/122712}, keywords={Polish literature of the 19th century, Romantic poetry, topographical verse, postcolonial and geopoetical criticism, imagined geography, Wincenty Pol (1807–1872)}, }