Maria Janion is a Polish

Poland

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 scholar, critic

Critic

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 and theoretician of literature

Literature

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 as well as a renowned feminist. She is a Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Polish Academy of Sciences

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, specialising in literary Romanticism.

Janion is also a member of the Polish Academy of Learning

Polish Academy of Learning

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. She has an honorary degree

Honorary degree

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 of the Gdańsk University

Gdansk University

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. Between the years 1948-1978 she was an active member of PZPR (Polish United Workers' Party).

Published works

• Gorączka romantyczna, (Romantic fever)
• Odnawianie znaczeń, (Refurbishment of meanings)
• Życie pośmiertne Konrada Wallenroda, (Posthumous life of Konrad Wallenrod)
• Wobec zła, (In view of evil)
• Żyjąc tracimy życie, (Living to lose live)
• Kobiety i duch inności, (Woman and spirit of dissidence)
• Do Europy - tak, ale razem z naszymi umarłymi
• Romantyzm, rewolucja, marksizm. (Romanticism, revolution, marxism)
• Projekt krytyki fantazmatycznej (Project of phantasmatic criticism)
• Romantyzm i egzystencja, (Romanticism and existence) with Maria Żmigrodzka, 2004
• Niesamowita Słowiańszczyzna, 2006