Maria Janion

Maria Janion
Maria Janion, portrait by Zbigniew Kresowaty
Born(1926-12-24)24 December 1926
Mońki, Poland
Died23 August 2020(2020-08-23) (aged 93)
Warsaw, Poland
Occupationliterary critic
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Notable worksThe Project of Phantasmatic Criticism (1991)
Romanticism, Revolution, Marxism (1972)

Maria Janion (24 December 1926 – 23 August 2020) was a Polish scholar, critic and theoretician of literature. She was a Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[1]

Janion was also a member of the Polish Academy of Learning. She has an honorary degree of the Gdańsk University. Between the years 1948 to 1978 she was an active member of Polish United Workers' Party.

References

  1. ↑ Gozlinski, Pawel (4 April 2011). "What they're reading in Poland". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 April 2011.


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