"TEN CZAS JEST KOŚCIĄ, WYŁAMANĄ W STAWIE"? POEZJA KSIĘDZA JERZEGO SZYMIKA WOBEC KULTURY WSPÓŁCZESNEJ
"THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT"? FR. JERZY SZYMIK'S POETRY CONFRONTS CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: The research presented in the article discusses poetic works of Fr. Jerzy Szymik, a scholarly theologian and, at the same time, a keen observer and commentator of contemporary culture. The aim of the paper is to answer the question how his poetry addresses issues related to a diagnosis of contemporary culture (described, in discursive speech, in his other works). The article is to present artistic strategies used to incorporate diagnoses of contemporary culture into a poetic text and to identify the attitude of the subject and his responses (including theological ones) to the dilemmas inherent in the culture in question. The primary method adopted in the research is a hermeneutic reading focused on the categories of the word and the flesh used in the selected texts; the interpretation is supported by synthetizing references to Szymik's whole oeuvre, not only to its poetic components. The article has been devised as a reconnaissance of the topic which may prove an interpretative key to be used in a general monographic description of Fr. Jerzy Szymik's literary output.

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