The article discusses the ties of the Kossak family with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris, tracing the facts in the existing artistic works and memoirs. The author concentrates on the artistic connections, especially concerning Juliusz, the progenitor of the Kossak family, with the Parisian artists and Polish modernist bohemia. The author shows the strong connections between Wojciech Kossak, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska and Magdalena Samozwaniec and Paris, and she proves that the city was the source of creative inspiration.
The paper is an attempt to analyse somatic motifs in Barbara Klicka’s writings, including three volumes of her poetry: Same same (2012), Nice (2015), Allel (2021), and the novel Zdrój (2019). The proposed interpretation is based on the phenomenological perspective since this vantage point effectively reconstructs the mechanism of the description of individual experiences. Furthermore, it proves useful in understanding the peculiarity of Klicka’s feminine characters, who are defined by their corporeality. Within the analysis of selected poems and the novel Zdrój, Merlau-Ponty’s thoughts are used to describe the corporeality of a woman patient and her experience connected with the problems of motherhood, eroticism, and existence. Moreover, concepts and tools borrowed from posthuman feminist phenomenology are applied to illustrate the communion of the human being with the environment.
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