Od ideologii ciała do cielesności zideologizowanej. Sport i literatura w latach 1918-1939
An ideology of body into the ideologised carnality. Sports and literature in the years 1918–1939 (selected instances)

Summary/Abstract: The article’s focus is on analysis of the relationships between sports, with the sport-implied ideal of male corporeality, and literature in the interwar period. According to the author, on the verge of the two interwar decades, the athletic body was an ideology in its own right; in the second half of the period, it was rendered subject to ideological discourses that were external to sport(s) and corporeality. Sport and corporeality were namely harnessed into totalising political narratives and their strictly related mechanisms of the then-emerging mass culture. An alteration of authors’ self-creation accompanied the process: in the period’s early phase, the authors and poets emphasise their brawn, fitness and robustness, whereas the final years witness a bias among the authors for assuming a distanced anti-sport position that rejected the then-prevalent models of corporeality.

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