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Perwersyjny rdzeń „Rozmyślań dominikańskich”
Perverse Core of “Dominican Meditations”

Author(s): Ewa Cybulska-Bohuszewicz
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: “Dominican Meditations”

Summary/Abstract: The article offers an analysis of “Dominican Meditations” from a perspective being different from the traditional. The analysis amounts to, inter alia, locating the text in line with other works composed approximately at the same time as “Dominican Meditations,” as well as with chronologically distinct texts. Set in cultural context, the juxtaposition reveals perversity of the text, understood after G. Bataille as a disretreat from death’s rape, and exhibits a macabre “hyperreality” of Christ’s torment.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 5-23
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish