World under Revision The Poetry of Wisława Szymborska

• Main Author: Ligeza, Wojciech (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2019
• Series: Cross-Roads 19
• Subjects: Biography: general; Poetry; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Anti-dogmatic attitude; Contradiction; Games with literary styles; korekty; Ligeza; Literackie; Newspeak; poezji; Reservation; Revision; Socialist realism; stanie; Świat; Szymborska; Szymborskiej; Wisława; Wisławy; Wydawnictwo
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Summary

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entirety of Wisława Szymborska's poetic oeuvre. The author employs in-depth historical reflection on Szymborska's beginnings to reveal that - without describing her post-war beginnings and reflecting on her early entanglement in socialist realist newspeak - Szymborska's mature anti-dogmatic attitude will remain unclear. The book shows how Szymborska's rhetoric and stylistics - figures of reservation, negation, contradiction, tautology, and repetition - are closely connected with the construction of the poetic world and affect the shape of her messages. After all, Wisława Szymborska is a poet of sophisticated wit, a surprising freedom of expression, and an unusual game with various literary styles, even with colloquial Polish.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (194 p.)

ISBN

978-3-653-06927-3
9783653069273
9783631710067
9783631710074
9783631676042

Access

Open Access