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Estetyka, biologia, gender (Wstęp)
Aesthetics, biology, and gender (Foreword)

Author(s): Anna Nasiłowska
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Gender Studies; Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska; Polish poetry 20 c.; nature

Summary/Abstract: The purpose behind a new body of gender-studies terms is to free interpretations from any ideological pre-assumptions. The meaning of ‘gender’ is a distance toward the notion of nature with which a depiction of determination is associated. Using Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, the most outstanding female poet in the Polish literature of the former half of 20th century, as an example, Nasiłowska shows the ways in which the notion of nature in Pawlikowska’s poetry is subject to aesthetisation, getting combined as it is with creativity and disinterested creation of beauty.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 8-10
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Polish