Narracje wspólnotowe współczesnej literatury narodowej i młodej poezji zaangażowanej wobec romantyzmu

Abstract

Romanticism still plays a vital role in Polish social parlance. It has different manifestations—as one of the layers of culture, a paradigm, a cultural and literary tradition, or a cultural code that conditions mutual understanding within the Polish community. As such, it is a necessary point of reference for contemporary community narratives, especially in poetry dedicated to social issues. Such a diagnosis concerns the contemporary national literature, which became more resonant after 2010, and uses Romantic tropes and traces affirmatively (Bagłajewski 2015, Nowaczewski 2015, Czardybon 2018, Czech 2019). The Romantic set of stereotypical figures of ‘Polishness,’ functioning in a phantasmatic or spectral way, is also deconstructed by poets belonging to the so-called new engaged poetry (Kaczmarski and Koronkiewicz 2016). The presence of Romantic influences in these poetic dictions is not uniform; it is usually mediated as poets do not refer to the epoch’s intertexts explicitly and often simplify and shallow their content. Such conceptualization of relations between Romanticism and the latest poetry goes beyond the popular dichotomous division into the mocking and epigone literature (Piwińska 1973).