The Language of Polish Modernism

ISBN-13: 9783631653425 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 204 str.

Ryszard Nycz;Tulsi Bhambry

Opis

This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Waclaw Berent, Boleslaw Lesmian, Stanislaw Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers' linguistic self-consciousness informs their implicitly self-reflexive texts and sheds light on their values and characteristic qualities. The author treats Modernist literature itself as a sort of "language" - a distinct entity that emerged through systematic differentiation within the general literary discourse. The book enhances the understanding of the transformations behind this important philosophical and artistic movement.

Spis treści

Poland - Twentieth-century literature - Modernism - Young Poland - Language - Subjectivity - Literary criticism - Literary theory - Self-consciousness - Self-reflexivity - Waclaw Berent - Boleslaw Lesmian - Stanislaw Brzozowski - Karol Irzykowski.

O autorze

Ryszard Nycz is a literary theorist and historian. He is a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Professor at the Jagiellonian University.