The Impossibility of Shrugging One's Shoulders
O'Harists, O'Hara, and Post-1989 Polish Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4210758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanna Nizynska (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 463-483 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20060297 |
| OpenAlex | W2333406989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
In this article, Joanna Niżyńska explores the modes used by poets of the bruLion generation (whose debuts coincided with the end of communism) to import Frank O'Hara's poetics into Polish literature and the significance of their doing so. By employing Harold Bloom's concepts of the "anxiety of influence," "kenosis," and "daemonization," Niżyńska analyzes the intergenerational impulses manifested in O'Harism in relation to the Romantic paradigm in Poland's poetic tradition. Niżyńska claims that in turning to O'Hara, such poets as Marcin Świetlicki, Jacek Podsiadło, and Miłosz Biedrzycki engaged in dialectically related modes of revisionary reading of both domestic and foreign traditions. O'Harism is interpreted as a sign of a multifaceted cultural morphogenesis that was simultaneously an act of compensation for Romantic "Polish complexes," a self-exploration of a new poetic generation in the face of a new political and cultural reality, and a misreading of a foreign source
Art · Impossibility · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Romance · Sign (mathematics · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Cultural and National Identity · History · Law · Philosophy · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |