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The Language of Polish Modernism
About This Book
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 Wac?aw Berent, Boles?aw Le?mian, Stanis?aw 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.
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- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: A Few Remarks on the Literary Modernist Formation
- Chapter 2: The Language of Modernism: Experiencing Alienation and Its Effects
- Chapter 3: Tropes of the ‘I’: Concepts of Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature
- Chapter 4: Creating (In)tangible Worlds: Stanisław Brzozowski on the Tasks of Criticism and Art
- Chapter 5: Inventing the Order: Karol Irzykowski’s Concepts of Criticism and Literature
- Chapter 6: Literaturology: Looking Back at the History of Modern Literary Theory in Poland
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Names