Juliusza Słowackiego pamięć ciała (przyczynek do refleksji nad stosunkiem poety do materii w okresie genezyjskim)
Juliusz Słowacki’s Memory of the Body (a Contribution to Reflection on the Poet’s Attitude to Matter in the Genesian Period)

Author(s): Anna Rzepniewska-Kosińska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Juliusz Słowacki; correspondence; body; matter; Genesian system
Summary/Abstract: The paper concerns the manner in which Juliusz Słowacki referred to the body (primarily his own) in the correspondence from the 1840s. The article contains a review of current research proposals, largely shaped under the influence of the still vivid stereotype of this poet, who after a spiritual change would begin to despise the material sphere of life. Based on the interpretation of his letters, it was possible to verify this stereotype and show Słowacki as an artist struggling with the issue of corporeality, having an ambivalent attitude towards it, but without any contempt. The conclusions indicate that the poet’s correspondence as well as his literary texts can be read as a multi-threaded treatise on the body and its place in the Genesian system.

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