Władysław Sebyła. Lektury
Władysław Sebyła. Readings
Contributor(s): Joanna Kisiel (Editor), Elzbieta Wróbel (Editor)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Władysław Sebyła; catastrophism; poetry; imagination; pessimism
Summary/Abstract: A collective volume entitled Władysław Sebyła. Readings is a polyphonic and multidimensional monograph of the works by the catastrophic poet of the interwar period. It points to a new approach to reading this intriguing poetry, while revealing its unusual interpretive potential and various connections with the tradition of Polish lyricism. The book is evidence for multiple original/authorial readings, which adopted various methodological foundations, and multiplied interpretative contexts. It presents the very first, so multifaceted description of the phenomenon of Władysław Sebyła's work, imagination and thoughts, which is enriched with essays about his dramatic and critical literary works. What is the key to describing the specificity of the poet's literary output is the interpretative event, micrological reading, fascinating and exploratory encounter with the text. And this is why the analysis and interpretation of individual works, each time elucidating the whole of the poet's work anew, play such an important role in the volume. The book Władysław Sebyła. Readings is intended for both researchers and students of literature, as well as for all those interested in the twentieth-century poetry.
Series: Studia literackie
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-226-3146-1
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-226-3145-4
- Page Count: 450
- Publication Year: 2017
- Language: Polish
Portret poety. Okładka z pegazem Sabiny Sebyłowej jako źródło biograficzne
Portret poety. Okładka z pegazem Sabiny Sebyłowej jako źródło biograficzne
(The Portrait of a Poet. Okładka z pegazem by Sabina Sebyła as a Biographical Source)
- Author(s):Elżbieta Hurnikowa
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:15-27
- No. of Pages:17
- Summary/Abstract:The author of the article reconstructs the aspects of the artistic persona of Władysław Sebyła on the basis of a book written by his wife, Sabina Sebyła, entitled Okładkaz pegazem (A Cover with a Pegasus), published in 1960). The author classifies the bookaccording to its genology (memoir, journal, diary), its structure (chronological), thetype of narration and the addressee. On the basis of Sabina Sebyła’s accounts, it hasbeen possible to reconstruct the path of the poet’s artistic development as well as thecritical and literary contexts of his artistic work; moreover, it has been possible toidentify his artistic passions – his love for music and art, which shaped his imaginationand the formal aspects of his poetry, as well as his interest in the world of nature. Inaddition, Sabina Sebyła’s account reveals several other aspects of the poet’s life, such ashis employment, the couple’s active participation in the cultural life of pre-war Warsawand, most importantly, the tragic end of Sebyła’s life.
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Wyobraźnia katastroficzna. Władysława Sebyły
Wyobraźnia katastroficzna. Władysława Sebyły
(The Catastrophic Imagination of Władysław Sebyła)
- Author(s):Stanisław Dłuski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:29-50
- No. of Pages:22
- Summary/Abstract:The author discusses the type of Władysław Sebyła’s poetic imagination and imagery, oscillating around the broadly understood catastrophic trend which dominated the landscape of Polish poetry in the 1930s. To that end, the author identifies the most important motifs and imageries characteristic of Sebyła’s poetry, in order to show that it was artistically independent from the influence of group poetics – even though the poet debuted under the ideological banners of Kwadryga – politics and the popular ideologies of that time. Even in the strictly formal aspect, Sebyła was always seeking his own niche, criticizing, also in his capacity as a literary critic, the passive influence of the Vanguard of Kraków and Skamander – the two most important interwar literary groups. The lyrical I in Sebyła’s poetry constantly seeks and misses God. According to the author of the article, it is precisely this search for sacrum understood as a constant and reliable system of values, which led Sebyła to creative and mystical poetry. This turn towards the sacrum constitutes the most radical response to the absurdity and historiosophical pessimism, while Sebyła’s legacy is inherited by the subsequent generations of poets: Baczyński (visionary aspect, type of imagination), Różewicz (the world seen as a “garbage bin”) or Barańczak (the idea of God). Sebyła’s faith was influenced in equal parts by the Christian gnosis, mysticism, as well as apophatic theology,which seems to be generally omitted by literary criticism on the topic.
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Żywioł ziemi w poezji Władysława Sebyły
Żywioł ziemi w poezji Władysława Sebyły
(The element of Earth in the poetry of Władysław Sebyła)
- Author(s):Teresa Wilkoń
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:51-60
- No. of Pages:10
- Summary/Abstract:Władysław Sebyła is creator of a “dark”, orphic movement, man with highly original imagination. Catastrophic motifs come across his expressive yet organized poetry.Visions of the imminent destruction of the world are combined with pessimistic images of the fearful reality. There comes a poet, breaking aestheticism of both Cracow Avant‑gardeand Skamander into the realm of ugliness, ahead of turpism poets of the “generation of 1956”. He desacralizes nature in his descriptions of nature’s elements, taking away the beauty of nature belonging to the main themes of Polish poetry and prose since Mickiewicz’s time.Władysław Sebyła was patronized by “the good God of details” – as Rilke said – buta certain fascination with details, so evident in the descriptions of the element of Earth(poem Młyny. Sonata nieludzka), stemmed from gloomy associations, dream visionsand some obsessions, often presented in the flash of the sun and lunar light.
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Metafizyczna podszewka rzeczywistości. O symbolice wody w wierszach Władysława Sebyły
Metafizyczna podszewka rzeczywistości. O symbolice wody w wierszach Władysława Sebyły
(The Metaphysical Lining of Reality. On the Symbolism of Water in Władysław Sebyła’s Poetry)
- Author(s):Anna Szóstak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:61-75
- No. of Pages:15
- Summary/Abstract:The article constitutes an attempt at identifying the motif of water in WładysławSebyła’s oeuvre and unraveling its symbolic connotations. A closer analysis of Sebyła’spoetry reveals a poetic view of reality whose signature and constitutive feature is the Baumanian idea of fluidity, inconstancy and changeability, which reflects the uncertainty of fate and the human condition both in mundane and eschatological perspectives. Water, found in various shapes and forms, both in liquid and solid state, evokes the metaphysics of life in Sebyła’s poetry at the same time as it directs the reader towards the inconceivable and the unnamable, to the Mystery hidden under the surface of things. Interestingly enough, the motif and its use by the poet do not serve exclusively to express only the catastrophic stance, but also to affirm life and remind the reader of the concept of apokatastasis – the belief in rebirth and the freeing power and the sense of people’s sacrifices.
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„Muzyka nocy tej”. Komentarz do wybranych wątków muzycznych w poezji Władysława Sebyły i diarystyce Sabiny Sebyłowej
„Muzyka nocy tej”. Komentarz do wybranych wątków muzycznych w poezji Władysława Sebyły i diarystyce Sabiny Sebyłowej
(“The Music of This Night”. A Comment on the Selected Musical Tropes in Władysław Sebyła’s Poetry and Sabina Sebyła’s Memoirs)
- Author(s):Bartosz Małczyński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:77-102
- No. of Pages:28
- Summary/Abstract:The article is devoted to the relationship between the Sebyła family and music. The text touches upon issues such as the value of music in their everyday life and the presence of various aspects of music in the writings of Sabina and Władysław, dating back primarily to the 1920s and 1930s, but including also the times of the German-Soviet occupation. The source material for these musings on the topic can be found in the poetry of Władysław Sebyła, particularly his Song of the Rat Catcher, as well as his wife’s biographical writings, which serve at the same time as an excellent source of insight into the history of the epoch. These issues are situated within the context of axiology, which has been recently approached by, among others, Pascal Quignard and Zbigniew Herbert, in order to formulate questions regarding the “inhuman” face of music, which emerges in times of social catastrophe.
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Muzyczność poezji Władysława Sebyły
Muzyczność poezji Władysława Sebyły
(The Musicality of Władysław Sebyła’s Poetry)
- Author(s):Milena Osiurak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:103-110
- No. of Pages:8
- Summary/Abstract:The article concentrates upon both theoretical and practical research on the mutual influence between literature and music in Władysław Sebyła’s poetry. The way in which the musicality of the pieces influences and co-creates the catastrophic vision of the world constitutes one of the marks of originality in Sebyła’s poetry. Sebyła, who was not only a poet, but also a musician – he played the piano and the violin – was an incredibly gifted artist whose unique sensibility allowed him to create works which seemed to oscillate between literature and music. This phenomenon could be called, according to Andrzej Hejmej, the musicality of poetry. It manifests in three basic spheres, identified by The Musicality of a Literary Work. Musicality of Sebyła’s poetry should be understood, then, as a transference between the arts, manifesting in the thematizing of music, the use of music terminology and forms, the shaping of language in the poems to underline the similarities between a lyrical and a musical piece (orchestration, particular phonaesthetics, the choice of meter and rhythm).
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Zwierzęta Sebyły
Zwierzęta Sebyły
(Sebyła’s Animals)
- Author(s):Anna Węgrzyniak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:111-126
- No. of Pages:16
- Summary/Abstract:The object of analysis here is the imaging which uses the motifs of animals, typical of Sebyła’s “dark imagination”. The author of this article associates the presence of the animals with the space of childhood (the water of a pond, the moon, a mill, muddy darkness). In this lyrical poetry the motifs of animals function as metaphors, allegories, and symbols, while also referring to specific observations. The reader of Sebyła’s poetry can see and hear a horse or a rat, because the musical memory of the poet stores the voices remembered from childhood. The sensitive imagination of the poet, a bard who thinks through images, is the tremendous value of this poetry.
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Od hipiki do hippomancji. Konie Sebyły
Od hipiki do hippomancji. Konie Sebyły
(From Horsemanship to Hippomancy. Sebyła’s Horses)
- Author(s):Beata Mytych-Forajter
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:127-140
- No. of Pages:14
- Summary/Abstract:The following article results from the reading of Sebyła’s poems which touch upon the subject of horses or motifs and imageries which refer to that particular sphere. At the same time, the article attempts to transcend the parabolic interpretation in order to revisit and reinterpret the presence of horses in Sebyła’s poetry, including both information regarding the animals themselves as well as their general perception in the public sphere (war, social life, sport). The recurring image of blind horses seems to strangely complement the images of blind people, pointing to the poignancy and importance of metaphors drawn from the sphere of Equus caballus, which serves to express Sebyła’s existential fears.
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„Robactwo z czarnych łąk”. Na marginesie lektury Młynów. Sonaty nieludzkiej
„Robactwo z czarnych łąk”. Na marginesie lektury Młynów. Sonaty nieludzkiej
(“The Vermin of the Black Meadows”. On the Margins of Młyny. Sonata nieludzka)
- Author(s):Magdalena Kokoszka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:141-155
- No. of Pages:15
- Summary/Abstract:The author of the following article is interested primarily by the dark facet of Sebyła’s natural vitalism, which she traces alongside her reading of Młyny. Sonata nieludzka (Windmills. The Inhuman Sonata). Over the bogs, marshes, swamps and wetlands, there exists a multiplicity of nighttime animal life which, regardless of the actual species, exhibits a worm-like fertility. This close-up on the rotting, decaying matter exposes the ugliness of ever-present entropy while at the same time uncovering the peculiar post mortem life – the unending “viscous” liminal state, the substance of the world in flux. It seems, then, that the viscous matter discussed in the article, which connects the spheres of water and moist, open soil, had to a large extent dominated the imagination of the poet.
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Młyny. Sonata nieludzka. Poemat paraboliczny
Młyny. Sonata nieludzka. Poemat paraboliczny
(Młyny. Sonata nieludzka. A Parable Poem)
- Author(s):Anna Szawerna-Dyrszka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:157-169
- No. of Pages:13
- Summary/Abstract:The author of the article, in her reading of Młyny. Sonata nieludzka. (Windmills. The Inhuman Sonata), focuses primarily on the genological aspect. The poem, described bySebyła’s contemporaries as a poem without a peer, fully original and inimitable, appearsto function as the initial link in a new genre paradigm, i.e. the parable poem. The similarities between Sebyła’s poem with works such as Przyjście wroga (The Coming of the Enemy) by Jerzy Zagórski, Bramy arsenału (The Gates of the Arsenal) by Czesław Miłosz, Tropiciel (The Tracker) by Aleksander Rymkiewicz and Pełnia czerwca (The Height of June) by Wacław Iwaniuk points to the similarities between the imaginations of the poets. Windmills. The Inhuman Sonata should be regarded as one of the first and most important poems of the second vanguard (and a model example of this genre variant), as well as an indisputable source of inspiration for the poets of Vilnius and Lublin, belonging to the generation of 1910.
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„Nazywaniem chcesz mi szukanie zastąpić?”. O Koncercie egotycznym Władysława Sebyły
„Nazywaniem chcesz mi szukanie zastąpić?”. O Koncercie egotycznym Władysława Sebyły
(“You want me to name instead of seek?”. On Władysław Sebyła’s Koncert egotyczny)
- Author(s):Ewelina Mika
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:171-192
- No. of Pages:22
- Summary/Abstract:The article constitutes a commentary on Władysław Sebyła’s Koncert egotyczny (An egotistical Concert. A Meditative Poem). The poet, who assumes a metapoetic stance,expresses the moods as well as the existential and ideological problems of the early 20th century, such as the need for a stable ideology and canon of values. In his attempt to answer the problems of the 20th century man, Sebyła identifies two major cognitive stances: “naming” and “seeking.” “Seeking” becomes for him a certain primary rule of existence and an important element of his creative work at the same time. It could be also understood in terms of a skeptical stance, embodied by the character of Hamlet (and St. Thomas Aquinas).
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Pochwała wyobraźni. O Dialogu w ciemności Władysława Sebyły
Pochwała wyobraźni. O Dialogu w ciemności Władysława Sebyły
(An Apology of Imagination. On Dialog w ciemności by Władysław Sebyła)
- Author(s):Ewa Bartos
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:193-207
- No. of Pages:15
- Summary/Abstract:In his entire poetic career, only once did Władysław Sebyła reach for the charactersof Don Quixote and Hamlet. These two literary characters hold a conversation with each other in Sebyła’s Dialog w ciemności (A Dialogue in the Dark). In their conversation, they engage in a philosophical dialogue concerning the role of the word in the creation of a linguistic image of the world, as well as its influence on the extralingual reality. Thus, the following article constitutes an attempt at interpreting a literary credo of the poet from the lines of the poem, as well as an attempt at highlighting the importance of imagination in the creation of poetry and extralingual reality.
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Nocte ludos, czyli nocne zawody. Wokół nokturnu 7 Władysława Sebyły
Nocte ludos, czyli nocne zawody. Wokół nokturnu 7 Władysława Sebyły
(Nocte ludos or Nighttime Competition. On Nocturne 7 by Władysław Sebyła)
- Author(s):Jan Piotrowiak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:209-220
- No. of Pages:14
- Summary/Abstract:Sebyła’s nocturne designated in the cycle as number sever (7) can be easily inscribed into the imagery of the night and the accompanying images of parvor nocturnus. It is the only poem in the cycle which emphasizes the exposition of the subject’s activity, giving primacy to the first-person monologue of the subject, the agent of a nighttime competition with an angel (God). Moreover, it is the only poem in this cycle which clearly hints at autobiographical context – familial gestures or celebration of remembrance. The nocturnal tale spun by Sebyła focuses on an event which originates in the biblical story of Jacob wrestling with an Angel, while at the same time revisiting (reinterpreting) its sense and message. Into this poetic somnambulia of a personal, particular, biographical (that of the unequal wrestling competition between the new Jacob and God) scope, the author inscribed an account of universal experiences – the incidental nature of human disposition, the fragility of the human condition, the loneliness of existence. The poet seems to tell his reader that it is necessary to accept a difficult, asymmetrical partnership and nonequivalent relations and thus tame our mundane spiritual orphanage.
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Bezsenność Sebyły
Bezsenność Sebyły
(Sebyła’s Sleeplessness)
- Author(s):Joanna Kisiel
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:221-234
- No. of Pages:14
- Summary/Abstract:Various interpretations of Sebyła’s poetry constantly emphasize the nocturnal dominant of his works. Darkness and night constitute the usual settings in Sebyła’s poems,as well as the central categories of his poetic imagination. The following article points to a hitherto undiscovered possibility of reading this nocturnal poetry in the context of the notion of sleeplessness, as an account of the torment of the body and mind deprived of sleep. In Sebyła’s poetry, sleepless vigilance exposes the absurdity of existence and the longing for a reprieve from the nightmare of being. The night, overwhelmed with waking consciousness, does away with individuality; instead, it can be characterized by its universal, anonymous, cosmic dimension. The experience of sleeplessness in Sebyła’s poetry, similarly to Emmanuel Lévinas’s theories, reveals the tragic nature of life, caused not so much by the fear of death, but rather by the dread of being, the terror of one’s existence.
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„…czyś ptakiem, drzewem, czy kamieniem?”. Ojcze nasz Władysława Sebyły jako cykl modlitewnych paradoksów
„…czyś ptakiem, drzewem, czy kamieniem?”. Ojcze nasz Władysława Sebyły jako cykl modlitewnych paradoksów
(“…are you a bird, a tree or a stone?”. Władysław Sebyła’s Ojcze nasz as a Cycle of Prayerful Paradoxes)
- Author(s):Katarzyna Janus
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:235-248
- No. of Pages:14
- Summary/Abstract:The article constitutes an attempt at an interpretation of Władysław Sebyła’s poem Ojcze nasz (Our Father). The explication of the text is preceded by references to earlier religious poems written by the poet, which serve to establish a proper context for the reading of the poem. The article postulates that Sebyła can be characterized by his antitheism. This concept, in turn, in the context of explaining the provenance of the creative act, was elaborated in more detail by Tadeusz Zieliński, whose lectures Sebyła attended regularly. The hypothesis concerning the “borrowing” of the idea of antitheism seems to be confirmed by the lexical dimension of the poem as well as frequent allusions to Nietzsche’s philosophy.The article attempts to foreground the discussed poems in the Bible, explain the existence of religious symbolism, identify the poet’s sources of inspiration and point to the dialogue between the poet and tradition. In the conclusion, the author formulates a thesis which postulates that Sebyła’s poetry presented in the article remains deeply religious at its core, even though its religious nature does not seem very obvious at the first glance.
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Bóg w poezji Władysława Sebyły
Bóg w poezji Władysława Sebyły
(God in the Poetry of Władysław Sebyła)
- Author(s):Katarzyna Niesporek-Klanowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:249-264
- No. of Pages:16
- Summary/Abstract:The article aims to discuss the various images of God present in the poetry of Władysław Sebyła. The poet, struggling with doubt, creates deeply multifaceted images of God. In his poetry, the Creator is present and absent, strong and weak, saintly and human. Sebyła, attempting to fight his lack of faith, assumes in his poetry the stance of a subject searching for something, striving to comprehend the sphere of metaphysics. In his relations with God, in turn, he attempts to define Him and understand his nature.
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Władysława Sebyły rozpoznawanie swego czasu. Ujęcie kerygmatyczne
Władysława Sebyły rozpoznawanie swego czasu. Ujęcie kerygmatyczne
(Władyslaw Sebyła’s recognition of his time. A kerygmatic approach)
- Author(s):Adam Regiewicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:265-276
- No. of Pages:12
- Summary/Abstract:The transition to modernity, which takes place at the end of the nineteenth century, is accompanied by a cultural paradigm shift. It is manifested by the phenomenon of desacralization, against which the modern man takes two attitudes: nihilist and socialist. This moment is captured and illustrated in Władyslaw Sebyła’s poetry, where two ways to participate in the world are shown, the attitude of an engineer and a rat catcher. At the same time the poet observes helplessness of these social structures against questions about the meaning of life. Described in this way, the situation of a cultural crisis is a good moment to proclaim the Good News, which the poet recognizes in the love of another human being.
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Za mundurem… Wokół Junkra Władysława Sebyły
Za mundurem… Wokół Junkra Władysława Sebyły
(A Man in Uniform… On Junker by Władysław Sebyła)
- Author(s):Miłosz Piotrowiak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:277-288
- No. of Pages:14
- Summary/Abstract:In the article, the author utilizes the vestimental discourse in order to analyze one of Sebyła’s poems. These tropes are, in a sense, suggested by the author himself, since the entire lyrical cycle entitled Pieśni szczurołapa (Songs of the Rat Catcher) is permeated by descriptions of articles of clothing understood as important attributes of the characters. In this context, the military equipment is imbued with symbolic significance which intertwines with the other articles of clothing enclosed in a lyrical cabinet of curiosities. The author analyzes those sartorial choices in several categories: cleanliness and dirtiness, understatement and opulence, devilish contrariness and soldierly virtue, etc. In this way, the author constructs an analysis in which Junker (The Cadet) is revealed to belong to a larger whole, while that lyrical complex cannot be fully understood without it.
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Lozanna nad Okszą. Poeta Władysława Sebyły w kontekście wierszy ostatnich Adama Mickiewicza
Lozanna nad Okszą. Poeta Władysława Sebyły w kontekście wierszy ostatnich Adama Mickiewicza
(Lausanne-upon-Oksza. Poeta by Władysław Sebyła in the Context of Adam Mickiewicz’s Late Poems)
- Author(s):Agnieszka Czajkowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:289-301
- No. of Pages:14
- Summary/Abstract:The author, starting with the already existing research findings regarding Władysław Sebyła’s poetry – concerning the Romantic tradition present in his works – attempts to primarily showcase his links with the late Lausanne poetry of Adam Mickiewicz.Focusing on a poem by Sebyła entitled Poeta (The Poet) – even though the article abounds in references to other texts – the author postulates that the creative dialogue between Sebyła and Mickiewicz was not restricted to the questions of poetic imagery. An analysis of aquatic motifs in Sebyła’s poetry, which draw abundantly from the Romantic poetics, serves to fully showcase his artistic originality. As the author of the article emphasizes, Sebyła’s poems, due to their intertextual nature which heavily references the Romantic tradition, became texts of a universal character, transcending their “current limitations” (the issue of socialization of poetry), attempting a diagnosis of the existential human condition soon before the greatest tragedy of the 20th century.
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Grób Słowackiego Władysława Sebyły
Grób Słowackiego Władysława Sebyły
(Grób Słowackiego by Władysław Sebyła)
- Author(s):Krzysztof Czajkowski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:303-315
- No. of Pages:13
- Summary/Abstract:In poetic heritage of Władysław Sebyła there are at least two poems which thepoet dedicated to the author of Król‑Duch (King‑Ghost). In both cases Słowacki has been called directly „from a name”, in the titles of works. A poem Grób Słowackiego (Słowacki’s tomb) is on the one hand, known to us all sarcophagus from the Crypt at Wawel, designed by Adolf Szyszko‑Bohusz, on the other hand poetic vision of Sebyła, wherein a matter symbolized „a marble from Kielce” is struggling with the legacy of „ghost‑eternal revolutionist”.
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Nie tren. O Zmarłym Władysława Sebyły
Nie tren. O Zmarłym Władysława Sebyły
(A Non-Lament. On The Deseased (Zmarły) by Władysław Sebyła)
- Author(s):Marian Kisiel
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:317-324
- No. of Pages:8
- Summary/Abstract:The article constitutes an attempt at interpretation of a poem written in memory of Karol Szymanowski. The author demonstrates how the catastrophic imagery is realized in the poem through the artistic form of a terza rima. Moreover, the author points to the alternation between “dream” and “word,” where “dream” situates the artist and his art on the side of the metaphysics of the unspeakable, and “word” – on the side of the quotidian existence.
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„Śmiech nosimy – i ból”. O jednym wierszu Władysława Sebyły
„Śmiech nosimy – i ból”. O jednym wierszu Władysława Sebyły
(“We carry the laughe – and pain”. On a Poem by Władysław Sebyła)
- Author(s):Iwona Gralewicz-Wolny
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:325-334
- No. of Pages:10
- Summary/Abstract:The article concerns the untitled poem by Władysław Sebyła ***[inc. “We Are But Manure, My Brother…”] from the volume Młyny. Sonata nieludzka (The Songs of a Rat Catcher). The author aims her analysis at searching for a more positive tone of description and a more optimistic vision of the world, which – as many studies devoted to Sebyła’s poetry show – appear extremely rarely. Through her use of close reading, the author reconstructs the interplay of light and darkness which occurs in the poem. The author juxtaposes the loneliness of the lyrical I with the relationship the subject develops with the addressee of the lyrical monologue, sees glimpses of hope in the mortal metaphors, and connects the spatial-temporal dimension presented in the poem with the spheres of both life and death. This polarization of dark and light meanings of the text, exemplified by such analysis, is further reinforced by the antithesis-dominated poetics of the text. The catastrophic vision of the human life portrayed in the poem is, therefore, complemented by the subtle optimism, which remains necessary for th complete picture of the poet’s vision.
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Pola‑sobowtóry w twórczości Władysława Sebyły i Andrzeja Bursy
Pola‑sobowtóry w twórczości Władysława Sebyły i Andrzeja Bursy
(Doppelganger Themes in the Works of Władysław Sebyła and Andrzej Bursa)
- Author(s):Agnieszka Kwiatkowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:335-342
- No. of Pages:8
- Summary/Abstract:The works of Władysław Sebyła are closely connected with their cultural contexts,and they have remained an important reference point for the subsequent generationsof poets. Imageries, motifs and stances exemplified in Sebyła’s poems reappear later inthe works of many other poets, including Andrzej Bursa. Regardless whether the connectionsbetween Bursa and Sebyła are doppelganger themes or conscious references,they testify to the continuity of the historical and literary process as well as the connection between the catastrophic tendencies of the second half of the interwar periodand turpism, accompanied by the critique of reality, in the times of the Polish People’sRepublic. The comparative analysis of Władysław Sebyła’s Zmierzch księżyca (Dawn ofthe Moon) and Andrzej Bursa’s Zgaśnij księżycu (Fade, Moon) serves as an illustrationof the aforementioned connections.
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Władysław Sebyła pisarz niesceniczny?
Władysław Sebyła pisarz niesceniczny?
(Władysław Sebyła A Non-Stage Writer?)
- Author(s):Joanna Warońska-Gęsiarz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:343-362
- No. of Pages:22
- Summary/Abstract:The article attempts an analysis of an early play by Władysław Sebyła, preserved in the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw. In Bunt ludzi. Strzępy niescenicznego dramatu. 7 wizji (The People’s Revolt. Scraps of a Non-stage Drama. 7 Visions), written in verse, it is possible to find both traces of Modernist poetics as well as theinfluences of expressionist drama and contemporary Theater Studies. The author analyzes the titular formula of a “non-stage drama”, contemplates the structure of the plot, the characters, the setting, as well as the stage project written into the text of the play. Moreover, she is interested in the influence of Tadeusz Miciński’s works on Sebyła (one of the chief Modernist poets, whose dramas were rediscovered during the interwar period), as well as the allusions to allegorical drama and psychomachia, present in Sebyła’s drama. In turn, the analysis leads to the central question of whether the drama, which relies on unreliable, often contradictory stories, based on the perception of emotions and events by different subjects, could be stagedin the theaters of that time.
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Doświadczanie poezji. Suplement do krytycznej działalności Władysława Sebyły
Doświadczanie poezji. Suplement do krytycznej działalności Władysława Sebyły
(The Experience of Poetry. A Supplement to the Critical Works of Władysław Sebyła)
- Author(s):Elżbieta Wróbel
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:363-404
- No. of Pages:44
- Summary/Abstract:The author of the article discusses Władysław Sebyła’s literary criticism, as Sebyłaanalyzed and explained the phenomena of contemporary poetry on the radio and in the newspapers (predominantly in „Pion”). Starting with the theses formulated by AgnieszkaKluba and Krzysztof Niewiadomski, regarding Sebyła’s critical outlook, the author discusses his attitude towards the Vanguard of Kraków and the Skamander group. The article references, among others, a campaign against the poetics of the vanguard movement, led in 1935 in „Pion” by Karol Irzykowski and Wiktor K. Zawodziński. Both of those critics of the older generation were, according to the author of the article, the patrons of a critical campaign regarding the shape and model of contemporary poetry, led by Sebyła. The author references Sebyła’s press articles as well as the records of his radio broadcast, which are preserved in the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw.
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Kłobuckie ślady… Biograficzne impresje na temat Władysława Sebyły
Kłobuckie ślady… Biograficzne impresje na temat Władysława Sebyły
(Traces of Kłobuck… Biographical Impressions of Władysław Sebyła)
- Author(s):Jadwiga Myszkowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
- Page Range:405-409
- No. of Pages:7
- Summary/Abstract:The author discusses the history of Władysław Sebyła’s family in Kłobuck, where the poet was born and where he spent the majority of his early childhood (1902–1910). The text presents and comments upon the two most important traces of the Sebyłas presence in Kłobuck, i.e. Władysław Sebyła’s birth certificate and his mother’s certificate of death. According to the author, it is Kłobuck which inspired the “land of the poet’s childhood,” with the characteristic landmark of the windmill, located in the vicinity of his childhood home. The image of the windmill, in turn, became later one of the most important themes in Sebyła’s poetry.
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