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Poetycki „zmysł udziału” Wisławy Szymborskiej
Wisława Szymborska’s Poetic “Sense of Participation”

Author(s): Ryszard Nycz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Wisława Szymborska’s poetry; cognition vs experience; sense of participation; idiomatic poetic diction as an organ of this sense

Summary/Abstract: The interpretation of the key fragment of the poem “Conversation With a Stone” leadsto an attempt to read Wisława Szymborska’s entire poetic output as a search for poetictools to activate the “sense of participation” – the human’s conditioned location in thenature–culture environment, the human as a being yet-to-be, and the human as aninherently relational individual. A reading inspired by Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophicalproposals, with which Szymborska’s poetic resolutions remain surprisingly congruent,is an attempt at a new interpretation of this work.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 248-262
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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