Dialectics of Modernist Imagery: Jan Kasprowicz’s “Wild Rose Bush” and Stefan Żeromski’s “Ravens and Crows Will Pick Our Bones” Cover Image

Dialektyka obrazowania modernistycznego: „Krzak dzikiej róży w ciemnych smreczynach” J.Kasprowicza i „»Rozdziobią nas kruki, wrony...«”S.Zeromskiego
Dialectics of Modernist Imagery: Jan Kasprowicz’s “Wild Rose Bush” and Stefan Żeromski’s “Ravens and Crows Will Pick Our Bones”

Author(s): Iwona Mikołajczyk
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Kasprowicz's “Wild Rose Bush”; Żeromski's “Ravens and Crows Will Pick Our Bones”

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a mechanism Young Poland’s poetics collaboration within one piece of art in order to struggle through the external sign, all with the aim of penetrating the deepest reserves of common consciousness. Moving within the limits of impressionist and expressionist and naturalist imagery dialectics, the receiver of pieces of art realising "correspondances des arts" penetrates the images of the presented world at different levels, from their tangible clarity through sensationality and emotionality to embrace them into a symbolic metaphor. The author of the article views this aspect of simultaneous coupling the various poetics as a value which determines the verbal record superiority over the painting one.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 137-147
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish