Czas pokoleń Pokolenia literackie i tożsamość ponowoczesna

• Authors: Karol Poręba

Title variants

EN

Time of Generations. Literary Generations vs. Post-Modern Identity

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The work attempts at defining the category of “literary generation” from the standpoint of literary criticism and sociology of literature. The author summarizes the theses of Kazimierz Wyka’s Pokolenia literackie [Literary Generations] and shows how the notion itself lost its interpretative potential. Later on, he focuses on such notions as “generational experience” and “humanist rightness.” By analysing the notion of “identity” in post-modern discourse, in turn, he shows that in fact it impossible today to think about generations in a way proposed by Wyka. Finally, a conclusion is presented regarding “generation” as still viable analytical category, but only when treated as a conscious self-proclamation of writing projecting themselves as such. 

Keywords

PL

literary generation; identity; engaged poetry; Kazimierz Wyka

EN

literary generation; identity; engaged poetry; Kazimierz Wyka

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 275-304

Dates

published

2019-06-28

Contributors

author

Karol Poręba