(Nie)poetyckie materie – o „lęku produkcji” w polskiej poezji nowoczesnej (Leśmian – Peiper i Przyboś – Różewicz)
(Anti)poetical Matters – “Anxiety of Production” in modern Polish Poetry (Leśmian – Peiper and Przyboś – Różewicz)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study is to examine the work of classical poets of Polish modernism in the light of male studies developed by Calvin Thomas in his work Male Matters. The article brings forward the profile and work of Thomas showing that his ‘anxiety of production’ concept differs from other male studies in its distinctive usefulness in the field of literary studies. In his theory Thomas deals with the ambivalent relation between a male identity and the very act of writing which inevitably brings shameful externalisation (and even feminisation) in signs and makes the creator conditioned by his own product including its repulsive materiality. In my study I follow different ways in which modern Polish poets manage the immanent corporeality of creation, imagined as uncontrollable ejaculation, humiliating exertion or the painful process of giving birth to a poem.

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