Męski artefakt i tajemniczy poeta. Wokół teorii queer
A Manly Artefact and a Mysterious Poet. Around the Queer Theory

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with an interpretation of a poem by Zofia Trzeszczkowska entitled Posąg [‘Statue’]. The text becomes a starting point for presentation of several ‘gender-sensitive’ reading strategies. The first part: a ‘Non-gender-sensitive reading’, attempts at reading the poem in a context of the ekphrasis theory and the Platonic reflection on arts and artistic creation. The following chapter – ‘Gender-sensitive reading’ – interprets the poem as a love monologue with a dominant record of homoerotic desire and fascination with man’s carnality. The third part, headed ‘Sexuality-sensitive reading’, concerns the speaking ‘I’ – the identity of the lyrical ‘I’ is namely weak, unstable, escaping any attempted classification. This makes the poem a text speaking of admiration/delight and desire/lust in general. The article is concluded by theoretical considerations on new trends in literary criticism (those building on ‘gender’, ‘gay’ and ‘queer’ notions.).

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