A MANLY ARTEFACT AND A MYSTERIOUS POET. AROUND THE QUEER THEORY (Meski artefakt i tajemniczy poeta. Wokól teorii 'queer')

• Authors: Skucha Mateusz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with an interpretation of a poem by Zofia Trzeszczkowska entitled 'Posag' (Statue). The text becomes a starting point for presentation of several 'gender-sensitive' reading strategies. The first part: a 'Non-gender-sensitive reading', attempts at reading the poem in a context of the ekphrasis theory and the Platonic reflection on arts and artistic creation. The following chapter - 'Gender-sensitive reading' - interprets the poem as a love monologue with a dominant record of homoerotic desire and fascination with man's carnality. The third part, headed 'Sexuality-sensitive reading', concerns the speaking 'I' - the identity of the lyrical 'I' is namely weak, unstable, escaping any attempted classification. This makes the poem a text speaking of admiration/delight and desire/lust in general. The article is concluded by theoretical considerations on new trends in literary criticism (those building on 'gender', 'gay' and 'queer' notions.).

Keywords

EN

GENDER STUDIES; POLISH LITERATURE (20TH C.); QUEER THEORY; TRZESZKOWSKA ZOFIA - 'STATUE'

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 5(113)
• Pages: 16-31
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Skucha Mateusz

• Mateusz Skucha, c/o Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydzial Polonistyki, ul..Golebia 16, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA056013