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Tuwim and 'The Chorus of Idle Footsteps'

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Telicki M., Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan D. o. M. L. a. L., telicki@amu.edu.pl

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2016

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vol. 36

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issue 6

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General aim of the article is to show city in Julian Tuwim’s poetry oppositely to older perspectives. Mostly critics write about his poems that they contain images of urban life and reflections of sociocultural change. I invert this traditional order and try to prove that city is created and seen by new ways of thinking – that the city is modified (not poetics first). I use Michele Certeau’s ideas, because they are similar to Tuwim’s literary praxis. Certau writes about “walking in the city” creating by language (rhetorical devices named synecdoche and asyndeton). Moreover, Certeau describes three types of “spatial requirements”: creating own space, non-time instead of tradition and appearing of new subject (common and anonymous). Reading Tuwim with Certeau’s theses gives a new look into modern city and his literary representations.

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Tuwim’s Dialogues with Banality

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Bocheński T., University of Lodz F. o. P., tomasz07@wp.pl

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2016

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vol. 36

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issue 6

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The article examines the relation between Tuwim’s poetry and modern colloquial language. The avant-garde artists for whom in the beginning of the 20th-century art was an elite occupation, treated every-day speech as a mass form of communication. Tuwim’s poetry was frequently criticised for banality. Matywiecki presents the poet as a hero fighting with the demon of commonness. The crucial thesis of the article is that banality which is modified in a creative way says more about the epoch than elitist visions. In his poetry, satire and cabaret work Tuwim transformed triviality into dialog and a common human being into a creative person. Transition of the street talk into original speech is the defence against reducing individual being to cliché which means the fear of 20th-century killing ideologies.

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Tuwim’s Dialogues with Banality

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Bocheński T.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2016

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vol. 36

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issue 6

219-231

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The article examines the relation between Tuwim’s poetry and modern colloquial language. The avant-garde artists for whom in the beginning of the 20th-century art was an elite occupation, treated every-day speech as a mass form of communication. Tuwim’s poetry was frequently criticised for banality. Matywiecki presents the poet as a hero fighting with the demon of commonness. The crucial thesis of the article is that banality which is modified in a creative way says more about the epoch than elitist visions. In his poetry, satire and cabaret work Tuwim transformed triviality into dialog and a common human being into a creative person. Transition of the street talk into original speech is the defence against reducing individual being to cliché which means the fear of 20th-century killing ideologies.

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Tuwim and 'The Chorus of Idle Footsteps'

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Telicki M.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2016

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vol. 36

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issue 6

197-207

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General aim of the article is to show city in Julian Tuwim’s poetry oppositely to older perspectives. Mostly critics write about his poems that they contain images of urban life and reflections of sociocultural change. I invert this traditional order and try to prove that city is created and seen by new ways of thinking – that the city is modified (not poetics first). I use Michele Certeau’s ideas, because they are similar to Tuwim’s literary praxis. Certau writes about “walking in the city” creating by language (rhetorical devices named synecdoche and asyndeton). Moreover, Certeau describes three types of “spatial requirements”: creating own space, non-time instead of tradition and appearing of new subject (common and anonymous). Reading Tuwim with Certeau’s theses gives a new look into modern city and his literary representations.

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4 Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

2 Bocheński T.

2 Telicki M.

1 Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan D. o. M. L. a. L.

1 University of Lodz F. o. P.

1 telicki@amu.edu.pl

1 tomasz07@wp.pl

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Tuwim and 'The Chorus of Idle Footsteps'

Tuwim’s Dialogues with Banality

Tuwim’s Dialogues with Banality

Tuwim and 'The Chorus of Idle Footsteps'