Inga Iwasiów

Recenzja ksiązki M. Wyki, Niecierpliwość krytyki. Recenzje i szkice z lat 1961–2005, Kraków 2007

The bibliography of Polish academic feminist criticism is so vast that it would seem to require an equally extensive monograph as the one which Krystyna Kłosińska devoted to world criticism. Kłosińska’s book entitled Feministyczna krytyka literacka /Feminist Literary Criticism/ was arranged in such a way as to point to the most important debates, including that of dialogism and the flourishing of discourses. In such a presentation, one perceive the attitude of both authoresses to the most important theoretical conceptions; the reading practices and the new matrixes created in their consequence as well as the new trails to be followed. Attempts to place the gender discourse in a wider context of literature studies have been undertaken in Poland already before,
usually with the view of shedding light on the foreign tradition. In her article, the authoress describes these attempts, pointing fi rstly to the historical-literary revendications undertaken primarily in the academic space, and secondly: the gender criticism of culture reviving the extra-academic discourse.

Komentarze do Rozmowy "Wielogłosu"

Old women in poems

The article refers to Joanna Hobot-Marcinek’s monograph Crone and Goethe. The Experience and Transgression of Old Age (Tadeusz Różewicz, Czesław Miłosz, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz), Krakow, 2012. In her book, the author continues her research on the topos of old age in contemporary poetry. In the background, she refers to the tradition of this theme. The approaches of Różewicz and Miłosz are different, consistent with their overall philosophy and their poetic programs. Miłosz tries to approach old age by presenting images of old women. He uses, among others, the path indicated by Świrszczyńska.  Różewicz more often deconstructs old age, uses the poetics of the grotesque. Paradoxically, while achieved by different means, in both cases a trait of existential drama is present. The monograph also presents the younger generation of poets. The author looks at male and female poets, as the topos of old age is also gender sensitive. In addition to issues of poetics and literary tradition, an important element in Hobot–Marcinek’s considerations is the autobiographical nature of the examined poems.