Poemat Słowackiego. Stwarzanie romantycznej formy poiesis
Słowacki’s poem. The creation of the Romantic poiesis form

Author(s): Leszek Zwierzyński
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Słowacki; poem; poetic tale; digressive poem; genesis epic
Summary/Abstract: This article describes Juliusz Słowacki’s creation of new poem forms of his own. It shows how the classical epic shapes – the narrator, the plot, the world, and the linguistic fabric of the text – are dismantled, first in poetic tales and then, more radically, in digressive poems. In the latter, there is also a stratification of the subject and the world, a thickening and weaving of the genre forms made with transverse bonds into a new, integral form of forms. These poetic genological transformations culminate in the late Genesis poems, in which all pre-Romantic and Romantic external forms and frameworks (genre, language, subject) become fluid and are replaced by the principle of internal links, derived from the depths of the Genesis metaphysical image, language and world. The genesis epic thus sculpted is the ultimate completion of the phenomenon of the Romantic desubstantiation of the genre.

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