Nazwa – więzi – miasta. Poezja Witolda Wirpszy w perspektywie postsekularnej
Name – Bonds – Cities. Witold Wirpsza’s Poetry from a Postsecular Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The article arose from a conviction that postsecular thought which provides a valuable inspiration for Western literary studies may prove a legitimate interpretative perspective for a number of Polish pieces, including those representing the trend referred to as linguistic poetry. Constitutive for the pieces is a twine of specific poetics, metaliterary reflection, theological-religious references and social-political subject matter (together with a description of the consequences of secularisation process) recalls the structure of thought as well as the form of discourse developed by the authors regarded as patrons of the trend (G. Agamben, J. Derrida, J.-L. Nancy). Readings of Witold Wirpsza’s poetry suggested here (especially epic poems “Traktat skłamany <A Treaty of Lies>”, “Wykorzenienie <Uprooting>” and “Liturgia <Liturgy>”) effects in disclosing original reflection from the borderline of aesthetics, philosophy and political theology included into poetic representations of urban spaces.

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