WILDE, IWASZKIEWICZ, BLOOM
WILDE, IWASZKIEWICZ, BLOOM

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to explain puzzling initially similarities between certain plots at Iwaszkiewicz’s compositions and the model of poetical identity formation presented by Harold Bloom in Lęk przed wpływem (The Anxiety of Influence). Apparently, according to Henryk Markiewicz’s terminology, we deal with a kind of inter-literary homology, i.e. parallel references to common sources, which, in case of Iwaszkiewicz and Bloom, are Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater’s works. Typical of Wilde and Pater’s reception is projecting their texts on biographies, considered as crucial factors in defining modern homosexual identity; as comparatist research shows, this homosexual hint, already described by e.g. German Ritz, in case of Iwaszkiewicz, may be essential also for of logic in Bloom’s theory, though he is not situated within contemporary gay studies or queer theory. It is similar with early Jacques Lacan’s concepts (the theory of mirror stage), used in the article to interpret places, which are vague in topics common for Iwaszkiewicz, Bloom and Wilde. Comparison with Lacan activates another hypo text of the analyzed works and concepts: Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s model of the history of art.

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