SLOWACKI'S 'BENIOWSKI' AND TUWIM'S 'POLISH FLOWERS' AND THE CONVENTIONS OF FILM EDITING (Beniowski i Kwiaty polskie - Reguly montazu filmowego)

• Authors: Michalowski Piotr
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses the way in which the narrative technique of Juliusz Slowacki's 'Beniowski' and Julian Tuwim's 'Polish Flowers' appears similar to film editing with its staple devices like close-ups, long shots, cuts and crosscuts, montage and sequencing techniques. While acknowledging the limits of comparability of literature and film, it is possible to see in Slowacki's digressive poem an anticipation of film techniques. The latter poem, on the other hand, exhibits the author's programmatic inspiration by the cinema. The methods of handling time shifts and movement between scenes, signalling levels of importance of various narrative subjects and indicating the modality of a represented action are hardly different. So for example the device of withdrawal of the camera eye from the scene, at times even beyond the frame of the fictional world is common both to the digressive poem and the autothematic film. Finally, the different kinds of shifts between scenes/digressions can, in a way, be the equivalent of the metaphoric and metonymic mode.

Keywords

EN

DIGRESSIVE POEMS AND FILM EDITING; LITERATURE AND FILM; SLOWACKI JULIUSZ (1809-1849); TUWIM JULIAN (1894-1953)

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: The Kraków Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 6(297)
• Pages: 463-477
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Michalowski Piotr

• Piotr Michalowski, Uniwersytet Szczecinski, Wydzial Filologiczny, Instytut Polonistyki i Kulturoznawstwa, ul. Piastów 40B, 70-065 Szczecin, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA085326