Open AccessThis page will cry here for centuries… Słowacki, Yeats and the (Im)Materiality of the Text
Author(s) -
Mateusz Antoniuk
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
textual cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1933-7418
pISSN - 1559-2936
DOI - 10.14434/tc.v10i1.13335
Subject(s) - materiality (auditing) , literature , poetry , romance , art , criticism , representation (politics) , george (robot) , close reading , textual criticism , reading (process) , philosophy , aesthetics , art history , linguistics , politics , political science , law
This essay concerns the famous Polish Romantic poem written by Juliusz Słowacki. The close reading of the text leads me toward the genetics analysis of it’s first draft (which appears to be at once “lost” and “regained”) as well as evokes the meditation about the Słowacki’s philosophy of textual representation (which appears to be deeply ambiguous). My article is inspired by George Bornstein conception of textual materiality and by genetic criticism methodology. I also demonstrate the parallel between poem of Słowacki and lyric When You Are Old, written by W.B. Yeats.