On the Issue of the Reception of the Anthropological Dimension of Schulz’s Poetics of Experience
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17721/psk.2025.41.44-62Keywords:
humanitarianism, anthropology, literary anthropology, anthropology of literature, Bruno Schulz, artistic text, epistolary, poetics, anthropopoetics, anthropological aesthetics, film poetics, anthropological component of Schulz’s poetic means, anthropological dimension of poeticsAbstract
Against the background of radical transformations of world literary studies thought at the end of the 20th – the first quarter of the 21st century, the contexts in which the works of the well-known Polish modernist of the first half of the 20th century, Bruno Schulz, are read and studied, perceived and assimilated have also changed. The work attempts to generalize and analyze the anthropological categories that appear in prose (artistic, in a certain way, and literary-critical, epistolary) works of Schulz and at the same time are the basis of his author’s philosophy, which makes it possible to outline the most complete picture of the implementation of key anthropological dimensions from the field of literary
anthropology and anthropology of literature. The theoretical basis of the study contains the relevant works of well-known researchers and theoreticians of new currents and directions in the field of literary anthropology, such as W. Iser, C. Geertz, H. U. Gumbrecht, M. P. Markowski, S. Chwin, W. Bolecki, E. Levinas, A. Banasiak, K. Stala, H. R. Jauß, H.-G. Gadamer, R. Nycz, M. Popiel, P. Sitkiewicz, K. Wyka, Ż. Nalewajk, etc. The specificity and innovation of the author’s worldview of Bruno Schulz became research axioms during the author’s lifetime, and the spread of his works in the Polish and later Ukrainian literary studies and readership contributed to the emergence of deeper and broader studios, so the choice of the vector outlined in the research, the analysis of the poetics of experience through the prism of anthropological dimension, is non-accidental and makes it possible to analyze Schulz’s anthropological categories more fully and comprehensively. All the observations, comparisons, generalizations, assumptions, conclusions, etc., which are mentioned in the study, can also be applied to the epistolary heritage of Bruno Schulz. The semantic trinity „author – character – reader” acquires special importance, thanks to which it is possible to analyze the works in the context of the dialogue between the artistic world objectified by the author and real, concrete-historical reality. No less important is the interaction of the text with the extratextual space, cultural tradition, dynamics of consciousness, etc. Comprehensive coverage of some key anthropological dimensions in the work of the modernist writer can serve as a basis for further research, in particular, comparative research.
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