Ryszarda Nycza język modernizmu
Ryszard Nycz’s Language of Polish Modernism

Author(s): Artur Hellich
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: theoretical discourse; literary term; academic metaphor; science vs. art; modernism; Ryszard Nycz; process; New Humanities
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the language style of Ryszard Nycz’s work with particular emphasis on the metaphors he uses (and their literary genesis) as well as his attempt toconstruct an academic dissertation from numerous quotes, intertext allusions and elementsof other discourses (which is here referred to as a from of literary criticism collage). The author puts forward the thesis that the procedure of blurring the boundaries between literary criticism and literature, which leads to the legitimization of poetic, essayistic andliterary expressions as scientific terms, follows the tradition of the academic writing of the Polish school of the theory of literary communication and – when considered asa literary practice – has modernist roots. At the end of the article, the author generalizeshis conclusions and addresses one of the problems in contemporary humanities, which is the relation of the language of literary criticism (in particular the theoretical terms) to the reality perceived as being fluid and non-substantial.

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