What Does Your Subject Do? On the Contradictory History of the Lyrical Subject Cover Image

Co robi twój podmiot? O sprzecznej historii podmiotu lirycznego
What Does Your Subject Do? On the Contradictory History of the Lyrical Subject

Author(s): Marta Koronkiewicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: she-subject; Janusz Sławiński

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to analyse contradictions and ambiguities embedded in the structuralist concept of “the lyrical subject”. The researcher reviews contemporary applications of the term and overviews a history of related concepts in order to show meaningful shifts in the default meaning of the issuer in contemporary literary criticism. Initial programmatic abstractness of the “lyrical subject”, both intended and politically motivated, has been reduced to a general intuition concerning the non-identity of the author and the speaking subject. The secondary consequence is that it obfuscates perceiving issuers as the effects of specific and intended authorial decisions.lyrical subjectstructuralism

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 28-29
  • Page Range: 90-101
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English