Wavy Line and Totality. Showiness and Efficiency in Kamila Janiak’s Poetry Cover Image

Linia falista i totalność. Efektowność i efektywność poezji Kamili Janiak
Wavy Line and Totality. Showiness and Efficiency in Kamila Janiak’s Poetry

Author(s): Karol Poręba
Subject(s): Poetry, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Kamila Janiak; Camp; engaged poetry;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to discuss poetic works by Kamila Janiak using categories of showiness (a formal surplus) and efficiency (understood as critical or performative potential). The author of the article comments upon the early reception of Janiak’s poems to point that first reviewers oftentimes intuitively indicated the totality of Janiak’s poetic gestures, and then he traces the poetess’s strategy back to Camp aesthetics.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2 (14)
  • Page Range: 163-172
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish