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“my body was opened for public view...” The Metaphorising of the Sick Body in the 20th- and 21st-Century Polish Poetry by Women

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Morzynska-Wrzosek B.
Prace Literaturoznawcze
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2019
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issue 7
233-250
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This article discusses selected metaphors of the sick body used in the works of Polish femalepoets in the 20th and 21st centuries. The analysis adopts the perspective of anthropological studies andreveals that these metaphors function as a representation of essential aspects of one’s perception and ofan individual’s struggle to redefine their identity in a situation of health loss. The metaphorical expressionof the sick body is most often tangible and refers to the classic image of “a body as a container.”As far as an indicating scope of imaging is concerned, one may find various types of metaphors whichcharacterise issues relating to the acts of breaking body boundaries as well as penetrating it, which is tobe viewed as the confirmation of going beyond the physicality of one’s existence.
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