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The Canon and Canons, or, How to Understand the Notion 'Homosexual Literature'

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Smieja W.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2008
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issue 1-2
96-116
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The article discusses the thesis (as postulated by G. Ritz, among others) affirming the presence of 'homosexual tests' in the Polish literary canon. Discussed is the way in which the terms 'homosexual literature' and 'literary canon' function, as well as their reciprocal associations. 'Homosexuality' of a literary piece is discussed against a comparative background and using specific literary examples, in reference to the findings of international and Polish literary studies. The author comes to the conclusion that the notion 'homosexual literature' is situated in an interpretative (rather than literary-historical) order and outside of the literary canon as a traditional concept, whilst not precluding the occurrence of a separate, 'particular' canon of 'homosexual/gay literature'.
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MYTH AND MUSIC SERVING THE FUNCTION OF THE 'INEXPRESSIBLE' DESIRE. ON JAROSLAW IWASZKIEWICZ'S 'PSYCHE'

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Smieja W.
Pamiętnik Literacki
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2006
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vol. 97
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issue 1
43-64
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The article examines the signs of the repressed homosexuality of the writer present in J. Iwaszkiewicz's short story 'Psyche'. Homosexual desire is seen here on various levels. The first is visible in the musical form given to the short story. The second is the mythological skeleton used to present a biographically understood fascination with masculinity. The writer's identification with a goddess connects with the camp aesthetics, which marks the third level of the text's construction revealing the author's homosexual motivation. Apart from the aforementioned levels, homosexuality comes into light through activating of 'secret signs' of homosexual discourse as seen in the introduction of the well-known motif of the superiority of 'symbolic motherhood' (homosexuality) over 'bodily motherhood' (heterosexuality) from Plato's 'Feast'.
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