Categories of representation and carnality in the poem „Z dłońmi tak splecionymi…” (With your hands clasped…) by Bolesław Leśmian Cover Image

Kategorie reprezentacji i cielesności w wierszu „Z dłońmi tak splecionymi…” Bolesława Leśmiana
Categories of representation and carnality in the poem „Z dłońmi tak splecionymi…” (With your hands clasped…) by Bolesław Leśmian

Author(s): Dawid Kraszewski
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Bolesław Leśmian;somatic criticism project;body;affect;signifiance;genotext;phenotext;Somatext

Summary/Abstract: Bolesław Leśmian’s poem *** [Z dłońmi tak splecionymi, jakbyś klęcząc, spała…] (With your hands clasped as if you slept kneeling) is analyzed with regard to the categories of carnality and representation, paying attention to the issue of rhythm. The author examines “significance”, traces the occurrence of transversal reflections and researches the logical and rhetorical structure which reveals its dynamic character and spatiality in the form of DNA chain links. The interpretation of the phonological layer of the text brings to mind somatic experiencing of reading the lyric poem, and consequently the way in which Leśmian’s the subject establishes contact with the reader.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 163-176
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish