Cyganie sentymentalni i romantyczni (Kniaźnin – Moniuszko)

The paper focuses on the libretto "Jawnuta" by Stanisław Moniuszko, interpreting it in the context of theory of intertextuality as a type of hypertext created primarily from "Cyganie" [Gypsies] by Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin, as well as from pieces by Józef Korzeniowski, Kazimierz Brodziński, Jan Nepomucen Jaśkowski, Edmund Wasilewski, Władysław Syrokomla and Jan Czeczot. The author is particularly interested in the mechanisms of romantic reinterpretation of a drama of an 18th century sentimentalist. Therefore, first she analyses the works by Kniaźnin, indicating his pionieering character in Poland and how deep-rooted he was in the ideology of the European Enlightenment. Thenshe confronts her observations with the work by Moniuszko, extracting the conventions of romantic exoticism and individualism characteristic to substantial parts of the libretto "Jawnuta" and thus presents how romantic stereotypes of a Gypsy and the Gypsy culture modified the meanings inscribed in the Enlightenment’s text.