The Language of Polish Modernism

By Ryszard Nycz

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 Leśmian, 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631653425
• ISBN13: 9783631653425
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"