Stała interpretacyjna: status rzeczy w poezji Wallace’a Stevensa

• Authors: Kacper Bartczak

Title variants

EN

The Interpretive Constant: the Status of Material Objects in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Stevens’s poems grant a curious status to material reality. Famously abstract, they refuse to abandon the realm of the material. Rather, “material reality” is inseparable from “abstract” concepts. Stevens’s position is pragmatist: the status and significance of material objects is founded by the entirely human linguistic/mental activity, which is also an interpretive activity. The poem is a site of initiating this activity. As such, Stevens’s poetics remains in opposition to other aesthetic posi­tions: the linguistic idealism of Mallarmé, the metaphysical realism of Miłosz and Herbert, and the material realism of Ponge and American “objectivists”. While the metaphysical positions tend to overcome the material, the realistic poets will reify it by “taking the side of things”. Stevens’s poetic pragmatism sees no lure in the extra-material, while also refusing to see matter as meaningful in itself, beyond the human interpretive activity.

Keywords

PL

Wallace Stevens; material objects; metaphysical realism; materialist realism; pragmatist realism topic; the status of matter and material objects in the poetry of Wallace Stevens

EN

Wallace Stevens; material objects; metaphysical realism; materialist realism; pragmatist realism topic; the status of matter and material objects in the poetry of Wallace Stevens; Wallace Stevens; material objects; metaphysical realism; materialist realism; pragmatist realism topic; the status of matter and material objects in the poetry of Wallace Stevens

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 235-250

Dates

published

2012-01-01

Contributors

author

Kacper Bartczak

• Uniwersytet Łódzki. Instytut Anglistyki.

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pspsl.2012.20.15