„Nowa muzyczność”? Fonostylistyka awangardowa i jej współczesne kontynuacje

• Authors: Beata Śniecikowska

Title variants

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'New musicality'? Avant-Garde sound-texture of Polish poetry and its contemporary continuations

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

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The article presents detailed analyses of the irregular sound organisation of the two wings of Polish interwar avant-garde poetry: futurism and the constructivist group Awangarda Krakowska. The starting point of the research is the ‘musicality’ of symbolist poetry, expanded and overcome by the avant-gardists. Members of both groups paid special attention to the acoustics of poetry creatively employing devices such as paro-nomasia, onomatopoeia, alliteration, anaphora etc. However, the futurist practice proved more complicated, more diverse and less consistent (sometimes even dada-like). The phonostylistics of Awangarda Krakowska, although still highly innovative, was more ‘disciplined’, logical and focused on motivating the metaphors by sounds. The experi-ments of both groups were revived in the Polish post-war poetry (especially in the cur-rents such as poezja lingwistyczna and the present neolingwizm). It is usually impossible to discriminate between the futurist and constructivist inspirations in the post-war works: sound concepts typical of futurism tend to be used in a more logical, consistent and metaphor-centred way. Hence, the author introduces the term “new musicality” refer-ring to the specific and still vivid poetics of sound, first employed by the Polish avant-gardists.

Keywords

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polish literature; interwar period; musicality; sound-texture; poetry; avantgard

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 121-140

Contributors

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Beata Śniecikowska

• adiunkt w Pracowni Poetyki Historycznej Instytutu Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk