%0 Book
%A Ryszard Nycz
%D 2017
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783653045314
%T The Language of Polish Modernism
%R 10.3726/b11339
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1067765
%X 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 Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław 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.
%K Modernism, Modernist literature, Philosophy of language, Modern subjectivity, Polish language
%G English