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dc.contributor.author | Ochwat, Magdalena | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-29T10:31:54Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-29T10:31:54Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9788380123335 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9788380123342 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/4084 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The book derives from an attempt to examine the contemporary sacerdotal
poetry focused around a paradox. Religion is a great field for contradictions,
especially that Christianity has always described itself using
the language of paradoxes and antinomy — the language of contradictions
indeed. In what other way can one express the transcendental contents?
It seems that only a paradox, with the use of conceptual and linguistic
devices available, and by means of inclusion of contradictory elements,
is capable of capturing the whole. The aim of the book is to analyse sacerdotal
poems in order to illustrate that the experience of paradox does
not have to be negative, but, on the contrary, it is the only way to achieve
the whole. Explicitness is of unilateral and unidirectional character, thus
it cannot express the inconceivable. Paradox then becomes the most complete
form of synthesis.
The analyses and interpretations presented in the book aim mainly at
discovering and describing the paradoxes occuring in the poetry of the
following priests: Jan Twardowski, Janusz Stanisław Pasierb and Wacław
Oszajca. It is not an easy task to expose the distinctiveness of the poetics
of paradox in each of the three poets’ works, which constitute a specific
theology written in the language of poetry. Bearing in mind the category
of paradox itself, the author of the book has studied the construction of
poetic senses built around this category and conceived through its prism.
The most interesting aspect for her is the opennes to the new readings of
contradictions and paradoxes, different ways of thinking, aporia, multiplicity
of interpretations and destruction of stereotypes of reasoning, contestation
of the accepted views and existence beyond the schemes of reception,
especially in the Catholic theology — unswerving for centuries. In
the book, the author pays attention to the graduality of paradoxes and the
intensity of their impact on the reader. She wants to illustrate that paradoxicality
is gradable and that conflicts and apparent contradictions do not have to be paradoxical, yet, they may turn out to be such in a certain
perspective.
The Poetry of Paradoxes — The Paradoxes of Poetry. The Poetic Theology
of Jan Twardowski, Janusz Stanisław Pasierb and Wacław Oszajca
consists of two main parts. In the first one, the author adduces theoretical
observations concerning the poetics of paradox: first she determines the
etymology of this concept, and then, the functioning definitions and typologies.
Such a synthesis of the state of research on paradox seems necessary,
primarily as the basis for further analyses and interpretations. It appears to
be relevant with regard to lack of any monographic study on paradox which
would aggregate and organize the results obtained so far. The systemaized
theoretical knowledge about paradox allows the interpreter to reflect on the
“paradox in action”, which is being realised as a stylistic trope, determinative
of the immanent poetics in the sacerdotal poetry. It also enables him/
her to avoid the danger of falling into the trap of generalizations and constatations,
which impede rather than expand the hermeneutic potential of
paradox in the context of poem interpretation. Hence, the functioning of a
paradox illustrated with Twardowski, Pasierb and Oszajca’s poems, united
by the discussed category, yet divergent in terms of the poetics used to
describe the world, are discussed in the second part of the book.
The paradoxes in the poetry of Jan Twardowski compose the most common
structure of paradox, which is manifested in forms of oxymorons and
antitheses, structured around the linguistic contrasts. Particularly often
Twardowski constructs his paradox on the basis of contradictions which
complete one another within one whole. In other words, he creates antithetical
constructions of complementary meanings which complete one
another. Paradox in his poetry is a method of talking and writing about
God and faith — a display of apophatic theology.
In the poetry of Janusz Stanisław Pasierb, the paradox is most often
based on the combination of two juxtaposed pictures, events presented as
contradictory, or antinomic situations that take place in the Christ’s homeland.
Thus, it does not consist merely in incompatible words or phrases,
but in the situations described in a poem. They are mainly the results of
conflicts between the followers of Judaism, Islam and Christianity, but also,
the effect of confrontation of what is old and sacred in the Holy Land with
the contemporary and profane.
In the poetic texts of the third author — Wacław Oszajca — the contradictions
are evoked by the combination of distinctive orders of reality
and illustrated with the pictures of redemption of characters commonly
associated with evil and inferno, such as Judas or the devil. This form of
representation corresponds to the definition of paradox as an element contradictory
to the common view — a claim that challenges the beliefs of
a certain group of people and surprises the reader.
The book derives from the analysis of separate poetic texts concerned
with religious themes, which are combined into a whole by means of a paradox that unites them. Its aim is to reinterpret and destroy the common
frameworks, in order to present new, surprising readings of the biblical
contents, motifs and characters which are usually already burdened
with certain standardised judgements. It is a way of reversing or “reformulating”
the themes, as if from a different angle. The role of paradoxes
in the priests’ poetry is not limited to providing entertainment or a witty
wordplay. They rather serve a purpose of revealing the elements of reality,
the phenomena and situations which have been concealed or overlooked.
Simultaneously, they expose the particular sensitivity of the poets, revealing
their unconventional perception of the world as opposed to routine
and unilateral view. Owing to the suggestive and meaningful paradoxes,
the priests obtain poetic devices to awake consciences and influence the
readers’ imagination, which is important these days. This approach, to
a certain extent, derives from knowledge, reading and travelling experiences,
but also — which the author of the book tries to emphasise — from
the sacrament of priesthood itself. Certainly, a paradox aspires to be the
most important category in the sacerdotal poetry, to rise to the rank of
poetics — an aesthetics regarded as a consequence of the particular worldview
or a way of thinking. | pl_PL |
dc.language.iso | pl | pl_PL |
dc.publisher | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | pl_PL |
dc.rights | Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/ | * |
dc.subject | Jan Twardowski | pl_PL |
dc.subject | Janusz Stanisław Pasierb | pl_PL |
dc.subject | Wacław Oszajca | pl_PL |
dc.subject | poezja religijna polska | pl_PL |
dc.title | Poezja paradoksów, paradoksy w poezji : poetycka teologia Jana Twardowskiego, Janusza Pasierba, Wacława Oszajcy | pl_PL |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/book | pl_PL |
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