On Irony in Maria Komornicka’s Biesy

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Wielogłos, 2017, Issue 2 (32) 2017, pp. 41-51

https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.17.011.7769

Published at: 20.12.2017

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

Article type: Original article

Article status: Open

Publication languages: Polish

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O ironii w Biesach Marii Komornickiej

Publication date: 20.12.2017

Wielogłos, 2017, Issue 2 (32) 2017, pp. 41 - 51

https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.17.011.7769

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O ironii w Biesach Marii Komornickiej

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The article addresses a topic not researched before, that is, the presence of irony in Maria

Komornicka’s poem Biesy. The author shows that, in the nooks and crannies of the text,

which is imbued with autobiographical frankness and untamed directness, there may

lurk irony, and its “cracked” subject, full of ambivalence and disharmony, sometimes

adopts a pose which after Kierkegaard may be described as an “infinite absolute negativity.”

A subtle network of ironic tensions is analyzed: between the Self and the world;

the speaking subject and the subject spoken of; the Self and Non-Self; and the Prototype

(Prototyp) and the Not-Fully-Born (Niedorodzona). The author emphasizes the

fact that – contrary to Kierkegaard’s ironic subject – Komornicka’s heroine remains

alienated not only in her worldly existence: even the transcendent being appears as an

unfinished supplementation of a defective spirit. Thus, the existential irony extends to

metaphysical irony. Komornicka’s poem reveals not only the core of a traumatic existential

experience, but also the ironic face of nothingness which underlies the world.

The article addresses a topic not researched before, that is, the presence of irony in Maria

Komornicka’s poem Biesy. The author shows that, in the nooks and crannies of the text,

which is imbued with autobiographical frankness and untamed directness, there may

lurk irony, and its “cracked” subject, full of ambivalence and disharmony, sometimes

adopts a pose which after Kierkegaard may be described as an “infinite absolute negativity.”

A subtle network of ironic tensions is analyzed: between the Self and the world;

the speaking subject and the subject spoken of; the Self and Non-Self; and the Prototype

(Prototyp) and the Not-Fully-Born (Niedorodzona). The author emphasizes the

fact that – contrary to Kierkegaard’s ironic subject – Komornicka’s heroine remains

alienated not only in her worldly existence: even the transcendent being appears as an

unfinished supplementation of a defective spirit. Thus, the existential irony extends to

metaphysical irony. Komornicka’s poem reveals not only the core of a traumatic existential

experience, but also the ironic face of nothingness which underlies the world.

Keywords

ironia, ironia wczesnomodernistyczna, Biesy, Maria Komornicka

irony, early modern irony, Biesy, Maria Komornicka

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Information: Wielogłos, 2017, Issue 2 (32) 2017, pp. 41 - 51

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.17.011.7769

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

O ironii w Biesach Marii Komornickiej

English:

On Irony in Maria Komornicka’s Biesy

Authors

Gabriela Matuszek-Stec

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3661-6291

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 20.12.2017

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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Gabriela Matuszek-Stec (Author) - 100%

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Publication languages:

Polish

View count: 2123

Number of downloads: 1408

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