Inne lustra. Pseudonarcystyczne reprezentacje w utworach Haliny Poświatowskiej i Wisławy Szymborskiej
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2009
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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Different mirrors. Pseudonarcissistic representations in the poetry of Halina Poświatowska and Wisława Szymborska
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The article analyses and compares two poetical texts written by women. The texts use a motif of
a mirror in both literal and metaphorical way. The author compares H. Poświatowska’s and
W. Szymborska’s poems to question traditional twentieth-century reception of Narcissus’ motive.
The proposal that arises is to see this motive as an illusion. Any woman that watches herself in
a mirror does not seek just for her sight, but also for a sight of “an other” – a man. Quoting these
gives, in the author’s opinion, an argument to say that a woman watching her reflection is not able
to converge the mythical Narcissus’ archer. Appearance of a man that was sought mediates the act
of self-contemplation in which one that was watching gets an access to herself by both body and
mind aspect. The access is possible only under a condition of “sight of an other” mediacy. The
subject in women’s lyrics is liable and dependent on what can be seen as a typical feature of its
modern version. This liability and dependency is being carefully masked in lyrics written by men
that explore the myth of Narcissus.
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Przestrzenie Teorii nr 12/2009, s. 45-56
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978-83-232-2077-0
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1644-6763