Open AccessMARCIN ŚWIETLICKI – POETA KANONICZNY?
Author(s) -
Paweł Panas
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
colloquia litteraria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-8112
pISSN - 1896-3455
DOI - 10.21697/cl.2015.2.05
Subject(s) - poetry , optimal distinctiveness theory , audience measurement , modernity , context (archaeology) , face (sociological concept) , gesture , aesthetics , literature , identity (music) , art , literary criticism , element (criminal law) , sociology , history , linguistics , philosophy , psychology , epistemology , political science , law , social psychology , archaeology
Establishing the canon of literary works created after 1989 remains an open question. We still lack a comprehensive, axiologically oriented picture of Polish literature of the turn of the centuries. The case of Marcin Świetlicki’s poetry seems a particularly compelling issue in this context. His poetry is popular and continues to enjoy wide readership as well as it receives extensive appreciation among literary critics. At the same time one can effortlessly find in Świetlicki’s works expressive poetic gestures aiming at highlighting its distinctiveness, consciously undermining the possibility of accord between a community and an individual. In the face of this paradox the identity of the experience of modernity proves to be the crucial element which establishes and conditions the basic pact concluded by the poet with his readers.