Lustrzane konfrontacje Pana Cogito

• Authors: Paulina Abriszewska

Title variants

EN

Mirror Confrontations of Mr. Cogito

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to analyze the series of poems about Mr. Cogito and investigate the motifs of mirror and mirror reflection, which are important for the construction of identity of the character created by Zbigniew Herbert. Apart from mirror-as-material-object, there is also mirror-as-metaphor, i.e. acts of self-reflection and self-observation. Yet there is another layer of mirrors there, the one located in “meta-text”, where Herbert joins inter-textual games and ironically approaches both his poetical oeuvre and that of his artistic “masters”.

Keywords

EN

Polish poetry; identity; self-reflection; intertextuality; clinamen

• Journal: Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 41-58

Dates

published

2018-06-28

Contributors

author

Paulina Abriszewska

• Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

Identifiers

DOI

10.15290/bsl.2018.12.03