Mucha uwięziona w bursztynie. O Ameryce i wyobraźni Miłosza

• Authors: Tomasz Bilczewski

Title variants

EN

A FLY TRAPPED IN AMBER. ON CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ’S AMERICA AND IMAGINATION

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article examines selected historical contexts of Miłosz’s encounters with America. It demonstrates the confl icts, paradoxes and contrasts in the poet’s attitude towards the country where he spent many years of his adult and creative life. Miłosz’s early readings and passions for discovering the laws and secrets of nature as well as Romantic and modern literary traditions signifi cantly infl uenced his perception of American landscapes and culture. They shaped his new internal landscapes. The speaker’s changes, a result of Miłosz’s experiences in the New World, allow us to understand how his characteristic spatial imagination developed. Moreover, the article outlines Miłosz’s pursuit of a remedy for his disintegrated imagination, and its religious dimension in particular.

Keywords

EN

Miłosz; America; spacial imagination; religious imagination

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Przekładaniec. Półrocznik Katedry UNESCO do Badań nad Przekładem i Komunikacja Miedzykulturowa UJ
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 25
• Pages: 46-58

Dates

online

2012-05-30

Contributors

author

Tomasz Bilczewski

• Katedra Międzynarodowych Studiów Polonistycznych, Centrum Studiów Humanistycznych na Wydziale Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/16891864PC.12.003.0430