A dialogue between texts — on an artistic effect of a postmodern play of repetition and difference Cover Image

Dialog między tekstami — o artystycznym efekcie gry powtórzenia
A dialogue between texts — on an artistic effect of a postmodern play of repetition and difference

Author(s): Elżbieta Dąbrowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

Summary/Abstract: The very issues mentioned in the title concern the writing and reading of the literature in a broad perspective of inter-textual spaces in such a type of a dialogue which develops in the course of an interaction of repetition and difference. It goes about the use of a “foreign” word in a new utterance, the type of their presence (all types of references, quotations, cryptoquotations and paraphrases), the textforming results and semantic effects of a discourse, whose dialogous nature provokes various interactions of texts and subjects. From this point of view, empirical data enabling an insight in strategies of “opening” intertextual dialogues, internal and external aspects of conversation, interstyle relations, conformist and non-conformist connections, predictable and unpredictable possibilities of reading are interesting. What is interesting in this context is an observation of particular cases of the action of a “foreign word” in compound- complex sentences, in literary-cultural repetitions, modifications and transformations of a “foreign word” (“a dynamic archeology” of forms, genres, styles, texts). Intertextual and intersemiotic games illustrate innovations, changes, transformations of “languages” of the literature, especially they say a lot about ways of its dialogues with tradition (further-closer) in the contemporary culture, in its posmodern shape.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 11-31
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish