GROWING TOWARDS PERFECTION: DYNAMICS OF DEVELOPMENT OF LEOPOLD STAFF'S POETRY

• Authors: Skwirut D.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article is an attempt at re-reading Leopold Staff's poetry as a process of growing towards perfection. It includes three elements (phases): 1. The analysis of the Nietzschean ideas of will to power and self-creation in Staff's poetic work (the first perfection); 2. The annulment of the injuction to project one's will to power as a consequence of a lost confrontation with the law of transience embodied in a symbolic ruins, and a revaluation of Norwid's interpretation of ruins (the second perfection); 3. The adoption of the spiritual and aesthetic ideals of claritas and the Franciscan Caritas - a symbolic manifestation of the process of growth towards perfection in the context of the European religious tradition (the third perfection).

Keywords

EN

STAFF LEOPOLD (POETRY)

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 1(280)
• Pages: 31-48
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Skwirut D.

• D. Skwirut, c/o Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydzial Polonistyki, ul. Golebia 20, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02705540