WASP (Osa)

• Authors: Gondowicz Jan
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The significance of the works by the French entomologist J. H. Fabre for the formation of the world outlook of S. I. Witkiewicz - Witkacy had been noticed quite some time ago. This particular study accentuates the characteristic role played in the latter's imagination by one of the insects described by Fabre - the digger wasp sphex, due to the fact that H. Bergson recognised its behaviour as a key example of instinctive knowledge. Against the background of a psychomachy with the detested Bergson, Witkacy developed a mythology of the wasp, whose message is close to that of the mythology of the praying mantis in the essay by R. Caillois.

Keywords

EN

H. BERGSON; MYTHOLOGY; WASP; WITKIEWICZ S. I. (WITKACY)

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 3-4(282-283)
• Pages: 314-320
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gondowicz Jan

• Jan Gondowicz, address not given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA064232