JACEK DEHNEL'S DISPUTE WITH CLASSICISM IN HIS 'OVER THE BRIDGE AND ONWARDS' (Spór Dehnela z klasycyzmem w cyklu 'Przez most i dalej')

• Authors: Tobiasz Tomasz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Critics often called Jacek Dehnel's (born 1980) verse 'classical' or 'neoclassical'. For some commentators his disciplined writing is itself sufficient for treating him as a poet indebted to the traditions of classicism and the Enlightenment. This type of reasoning seems to be based on the assumption that form is in a way independent of the poetic content. This article treats the choice of genre conventions as something secondary, or as a consequence of a philosophical approach born out of the aesthetic of 'je ne sais quoi'. In that perspective - inspired by the opinions of Ryszard Przybylski and Czeslaw Milosz - no artist can claim the distinction of a classic unless he has experienced the horrors of the twentieth century and, as a result, has both accepted the limitations of language, perception and his own consciousness, and enriched his own subjectivity with a sense of things that must remain unknown and inexplicable. The choice of poetic form is then a natural consequence of his formative experience

Keywords

EN

CLASSICISM IN POLISH CONTEMPORARY POETRY; DEHNEL JACEK; POLISH LITERATURE ( 21ST C.)

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 4-5
• Pages: 387-399
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Tobiasz Tomasz

• Tomasz Tobiasz, c/o Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, ul. Golebia 16, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA082616