Autobiographical Interpoetics. Wartime Works by Franciszka and Stefan Themerson Cover Image

Interpoetyka autobiograficzna. Wojenna twórczość Franciszki i Stefana Themersonów
Autobiographical Interpoetics. Wartime Works by Franciszka and Stefan Themerson

Author(s): Honorata Sroka
Subject(s): Polish Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: wojna;Franciszka Themerson;interpoetyka;archiwum;listy;autobiografia;dzienniki;Stefan Themerson;awangarda;dokumenty osobiste

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the wartime autobiographical practices by Franciszka and Stefan Themersoncharacterized by interpoetics, i.e. simultaneous preference for numerous formal anddiscourse organizations within one textual-visual entity. The paper analyzes the personaldocuments and literary works of those avant-garde writers. It is proposed to read the writtenand visual autobiographics according to three forms of representation: document, secondaryaesthetization, and stylization. Based on this paradigm, the paper stresses the peculiarity ofthe Themersons’ activity from the years 1940-1942, stressing the discreteness of this momentas opposed to the former and later literary work by the couple.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 64-75
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish