The Prose Poem as a (Non)Genre: A Polish Case Study

ISBN-13: 9783631846773 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 496 str.

Agnieszka Kluba

Opis

The book provides a comprehensive summary of the existing approaches to the prose poem and offers an original conception of it, remaining close to the poetic texts by following the intricate line of development of the prose poem, in Modern Polish and European literary history and literary genre theory.

Spis treści

The Prose Poem: Genre Related Reflections - Hermeneutical Genre Theory - The Architextuality of the Prose Poem - Theories of the Prose Poem - The "Prose Poetries" of Young Poland - Interwar Qasidas, Pictures, Calligraphies, Sketches - War-Time "Prose Lyrics" - The Prose Poem in Post-War Polish Literature

O autorze

Agnieszka Kluba is a professor at the Department of Historical Poetics, Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences. She has been a Fulbright scholar at the University of Massachusetts. Her research interests include 20th & 21st-century poetry, the theory and philosophy of literature, the "crisis of the humanities" phenomenon and memetics. Her books on Modern poetry combine a theoretical perspective with a reflection on individual poets.