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A Persona and a Voice – Dramatic Character in Recent Polish Drama

Author(s): Ewa Wąchocka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: contemporary Polish drama; character; identity crisis; voice; choir

Summary/Abstract: The disintegration of character in recent Polish drama is closely related to identity crisis and the ensuing negation of the basis and integrity of one's sense of self. A character can hardly be analysed as a person – more often than not, it resembles a linguistic or textual entity rather than a human being. The persona is replaced by a voice or a polyphonic collective body – a choir. In the dramatic works of contemporary Polish playwrights such as M. Koterski, M. Bieliński, M. Modzelewski, L. Amejko or D. Masłowska these forms can be realized as either a fragmented subject split into aspects that cannot be reconciled, or as the subject's external reality, which they perceive as fragmented, incomprehensible and hostile.

  • Issue Year: 8/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 27-42
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish