TY - JOUR N2 - The article presents the ways of defining and understanding hope in Polish, English and American literature. The basic theses are: 1) hope is an ambivalent phenomenon, 2) hope is connected with the work of consciousness and imagination, 3) hope conjures up visions of the alternative existential and social solutions, 4) hope is a passion and a way of knowing, 5) hope constitutes the keystone of artistic and academic activity. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/116869/PDF/N%23420-01-Sliwi%C5%84ski.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/116869 PY - 2020 IS - No 4 EP - 38 DO - 10.24425/nauka.2020.133748 KW - hope KW - passion KW - awareness KW - imagination KW - crisis KW - ethics KW - irony KW - poetry A1 - Śliwiński, Piotr PB - Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN DA - 2020.11.19 T1 - Hope in literature SP - 23 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/116869 T2 - Nauka ER -