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E-book The Prose Poem As a (Non)Genre : A Polish Case Study

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Penilaian

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The prose poem, in Poland, is an entity that is –as Le?mian would have it –“incompletely-incarnated,” supposedly described in dictionaries, at times even ephemerally resurrected in some title but, in general, leading a clandestine exis-tence, turned rather towards the past, brooding over its former lives? In any case, there were never very many of them in Polish literature and, the further back one goes from the turn of the twentieth century, the fewer there are, the mistier are their contours and the more episodic their appearances? The prose poem has remained a form that is recognized and taken up by a few initiates, usually those familiar with French poetry, which invented this way of writing?When one follows the vanishing line of Polish prose poems, one may dis-cern clear relations, established by poets beyond their epochs, like those that link Stefan Napierski with Wac?aw Rolicz-Lieder or Aleksander Szcz?sny or, also, subtler connections – say, those between the post-war Zbigniew Herbert and the pre-war Anna ?wirszczy?ska? The elite character of the circle of authors creating prose poems also determined in advance the scanty consciousness of this form of writing among the writing, reading and commenting literary public? In the sim-plest terms – for the initiated, the genre code of the prose poem was something obvious, intuitively taken up and creatively transformed; for the rest it was some-thing in a certain sense invisible, insufficiently detectable and not constituting itself into a legible genre pattern? Hence, the history of the prose poem is – at the same time and partially – a history of acts of overlooking, misidentification and rash attribution? Without recalling these, this story would be incomplete?The decisive factor behind this non-reading was not only the hidden life of the prose poem, known to a few, but also its contrary and discreet nature, shunning graspability, the intentional lability of its identity, the mistaking of traces leading both to prose and to poetry and, perhaps, in truth, somewhere else still...Avoiding the calligraphic tidiness of the sonnet or the provocative osten-tation of free verse, chimerical and protean but not, after all, amorphous like poetic prose, this literary “ungraspable” poses a particular challenge for a scholar who wants to avoid usurpation by prejudicial determinations, but cannot let go of certain minimal assumptions? I attempt to reconcile both these arguments?Genre related considerations, which are indispensable for contemporary reflec-tion on the prose poem, are an important part of my study? Discussions of the prose poem, from the point of view of genre studies, constitute the predominant part of works dedicated to this form of writing? I propose a short summary of these investigations and refer to them frequently? Still, this book is filled, above all, with character studies of texts written in prose by twenty four Polish poets, during a period going back over a hundred years.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

928.438 KLU t

Penerbit

Switzerland : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

498 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783631863121

Klasifikasi

928.438

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text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Person in Literature Biography in Poland

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Lampiran Berkas

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