Obrazy zwierząt i towarzyszące im emocje w antologii poetyckiej Roberta Stillera pt. Strofy o zwierzętach
Images of Animals and Emotions Connected with Them in the Collection of Poems The Stanzas about Animals by Robert Stiller

Contributor(s): Marcin Czerwiński (Editor)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: animal fable; modern lyric; empathy; affective science; creative egocentricity
Summary/Abstract: In the article I analyze the anthology of poems titled Stanzas about Animals edited by an eminent Polish translator and poet Robert Stiller, published in Poland in 1982. I focus on the composition of the collection, the order of poems, the selection of authors and examine the main ways of the presentation of selected species of animals in the book. I propose to look at Stillers’s anthology as a pioneering act in Poland – even though purely intuitive – of an introduction of the main assumptions of animal studies which started to develop in Western humanities. The paper brings interpretations of selected poems of the anthology in the contexts of emotions they produce – both towards animal and human protagonists. The aim of the analysis is to show that the poems – diverse in terms of animal images and emotional value – demonstrate in a mimetic way relations between people and animals in Western culture.

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