“silver splashes of the unknown river”. Modern conceptualizations of the primal materiality flux Cover Image

“nieznanej rzeki srebrne pluski”. Modernistyczne konceptualizacje strumienia prymarnej materialności
“silver splashes of the unknown river”. Modern conceptualizations of the primal materiality flux

Author(s): Łukasz Wróbel
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: chaos; experience; materiality; aquatic metaphors; nautical metaphors; modernism

Summary/Abstract: The focus of my paper are modern conceptualizations of the extra-discursive, non-symbolic primal materiality of the real, transcendent world. My reconstructions indicate that modern philosophical, literary theoretical and literary representations of the chaotic, autonomous matter of the world along with the subjective experience of the presence of such a domain employ mainly aquatic and nautical metaphors for various representations that all stem from the similar or analogous basic metaphysical and anthropological assumptions.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 127-140
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish