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Varia: Tradycja (nie)śmiertelna. Kilka słów o poetyckich „obsesjach” Wojciecha Wencla
Varia: (Im)mortal Tradition. A Few Words about Wojciech Wencel’s poetic “obsessions”

Author(s): Magdalena Piotrowska-Grot
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Wojciech Wencel; classicism; tradition; poetic imagination

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to read Wojciech Wencel’s poem Imago mundi, focusing mainly on the process of opening up the Polish literary tradition by the poet (both the classic genre forms and stylization, direct references to the particular authors or symbols common in the Polish literature). Moreover, the author examines the poet’s “forces of imagination,” his characteristic way of depiction, small “obsessions” and the otherness of the analysed poem.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 2 (7)
  • Page Range: 285-303
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish