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2016 | 4 | 9 - 19

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Sanc Iti CIty or Commodity ? Nature as interpreted by American counterculture

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Świętość czy Towar? Natura w interpretacji Amerykańskiej kontrkultury

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At first, earlier ideas of the relationship between man and nature within the American culture are concisely restated: above all, the transcendentalist view upon this relationship, expressed by Emerson and Thoreau, and then basically questioned from the perspective of existential alienation or cognitive skepticism (Poe, Dickinson, Crane). Then, American counterculture, in the literary/artistic sense represented by the Beats and later by the Hippies, is presented, both in its unfortunate attempt at returning to Emerson’s concept of divine harmony between man and nature and in its literary/artistic representatives being alienated in the “disenchanted world” of the mid-20th century America (see at least by Kerouac’s Big Sur or Easy Rider, a classic film of the Hippie era). Eventually, an analogy is suggested between Kerouac and his Polish acolyte, Edward Stachura (chronologically belonging to the Hippie generation), who showed in his writings hypersensitive individuals, fatally alienated both from nature and humanity – which, ultimately, was hardly the case with the Beats or their Hippie followers.
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Na początku dokonano skrótowej rekapitulacji historycznych poglądów na temat natury w literaturze i kulturze USA, ze szczególnym naciskiem na poglądy transcendentalistów amerykańskich (Emerson, Thoreau), później zakwestionowane z perspektywy, romantycznego dekadentyzmu, naturalizmu czy też egzystencjalizmu i właściwego mu sceptycyzmu poznawczego (Poe, Dickinson, Crane). W części zasadniczej ukazano amerykańską kontrkulturę XX wieku – w sensie artystycznym i literackim reprezentowaną najpierw przez beatników, a później przez hipisów – niezdolną do powrotu do Emersonowskiej koncepcji boskiej harmonii między człowiekiem i naturą oraz dramatycznie wyalienowaną w “odczarowanym świecie” cywilizacji amerykańskiej połowy XX wieku (patrz powieść Kerouaca Big Sur albo Easy Rider, sztandarowy film epoki hipisowskiej), Pod koniec zarysowano analogię między Kerouacem a jego polskim wyznawcą Edwardem Stachurą, należącym raczej do pokolenia hipisowskiego – akcentując zarazem wymowne różnice między nimi.

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4

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9 - 19

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  • Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Płocku

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