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Published: 2017-11-30
No. 35 (2017)

Exits: Avant-gardisation as an Incentive to Canonization (the Case of Różewicz the Poet)

Ewa Maria Goczał

Abstract

Ewa Maria Goczał
The Faculty of Philology
Pedagogical University of Cracow 

Exits: Avant-gardisation as an Incentive to Canonization (the Case of Różewicz the Poet)

Abstract: The article aims at determining the specificity of canonical character of the poetry of Tadeusz Różewicz – one of the most important writers of the Polish literature of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, whose just recently finished work – although there are already numerous studies – is only now subjected to all-embracing summaries. The discussion has been submitted to the concept of continual canonization which corresponds with the diagnosis of multiplicity and dynamism of modern canons as well as conforms with, the basic to the author of Faces of Anxiety, the movement of transgression – constant avant-gardisation, going beyond individual and non-individual norms and established models. The study is divided into four parts corresponding with four aspects of Różewicz's excesses. The first one is a general description of the postulated category of canonical character in the context of the work of the author of Exit; the second one describes a type of avant-garde specific to the author; the third one concerns negative poetics. The fourth part sums up the issue by discussing the newest selection of Różewicz's poetry – Znikanie [Disappearance] edited and commented by Jacek Gutorow, poet and literature scholar. The problem of paradoxical continuation based on variability, poetic tradition, and the strategy of external canonization of the writer will be discussed – through the creation of a new canon of his poems which will be potential, alternative, personal and explicitly submitted to the subject of the sense of writing and the autotelic nature of poetry.

Keywords: avant-garde, canon, contemporary poetry

Keywords:

avant-garde , canon , contemporary poetry

JEL Codes

Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary theory

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Goczał, E. M. (2017). Exits: Avant-gardisation as an Incentive to Canonization (the Case of Różewicz the Poet). Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, 2(35). Retrieved from https://trrest.vot.pl/ojsus/index.php/ERRGO/article/view/4675

ER(R)GO No. 35 (2/2017) canon/ideology/value

No. 35 (2017)
Published: 2017-12-25

ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo
Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"
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