Antynomie męskości i erotyczne spojrzenie na męskie ciało w "Agnieszce, córce Kolumba" Wilhelma Macha
Authors:
- Wojciech Aleksander Śmieja
Abstract
Wilhelm Mach’s novel Agnieszka, córka Kolumba [Agnes, Columbus’ Daughter] (1965) has now largely been forgotten, like the author’s other works, yet, in the 1960’s it used to be highly controversial and provoked numerous arguments. This paper brings the novel back into focus and analyzes the ambiguous and internally incongru-ous concept of masculinity it presents. The analysis concerns the novel both in the wider contexts of the ideological and aesthetic discussions of the 1960s, and in relation to the author’s earlier works. The author’s personal view on the form of a novel was highly interesting as he conceptualized a well-crafted novel as a “gendered” one: the “masculine” dimension of the epic had to be balanced by the “feminine” element en-capsulated in the concentration on details, emotionality, and attentiveness. These ideas being put into practice, “the feminine” in Agnieszka is realized by the romantic plot and eroticization of the constructed-as-feminine gaze on the masculine body, yet under the heteronormative and patriarchal regime the eroticization of this body disrupts the “masculine” narrative and results in an artistic failure and the omnipresent misunder-standing of the author’s intentions.
- Record ID
- USL9efd328437d24d74bab040fca8931752
- Author
- Journal series
- Wielogłos. Pismo Wydziału Polonistyki UJ, ISSN 1897-1962, e-ISSN 2084-395X
- Issue year
- 2018
- No
- 4
- Pages
- 69-89
- Keywords in English
- masculinity, homosexuality, queer gaze, novel of manners
- DOI
- DOI:10.4467/2084395XWI.18.035.10199 Opening in a new tab
- Handle.net URL
- hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/18441 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- pol (pl) Polish
- File
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- File: 1
- Antynomie męskości i erotyczne spojrzenie na męskie ciało w "Agnieszce, córce Kolumba" Wilhelma Macha, File Smieja_Antynomie_meskosci_i_erotyczne_spojrzenie.pdf / 471 KB
- Smieja_Antynomie_meskosci_i_erotyczne_spojrzenie.pdf
- publication date: 06-02-2024
- Antynomie męskości i erotyczne spojrzenie na męskie ciało w "Agnieszce, córce Kolumba" Wilhelma Macha, File Smieja_Antynomie_meskosci_i_erotyczne_spojrzenie.pdf / 471 KB
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- Score (nominal)
- 12
- Score source
- journalList
- Score
- = 12.0, 03-04-2023, ArticleFromJournal
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://opus.us.edu.pl/info/article/USL9efd328437d24d74bab040fca8931752/
- URN
urn:uni-kat-prod:USL9efd328437d24d74bab040fca8931752
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