This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Waclaw Berent, Boleslaw Lesmian, Stanislaw Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers’ linguistic self-consciousness informs their implicitly self-reflexive texts and sheds light on their values and characteristic qualities. The author treats Modernist literature itself as a sort of 'language' – a distinct entity that emerged through systematic differentiation within the general literary discourse. The book enhances the understanding of the transformations behind this important philosophical and artistic movement.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783631653425
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-631-65342-5
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Erscheinungstermin: 22.06.2017
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2017
- Serie: Literary and Cultural Theory
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 388 g
- Seiten: 204
- Format (B x H x T): 153 x 216 x 16 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt