Writing as a trace and as a gift. On Witold Wirpsza's “Attempts at writing“

The article attempts to interpret the Attempts at writing series of poems in Witold Wirpsza’s volume of poetry entitled Superstitions. This has been read as something of a poetic and philosophical treatise dealing with nature and also the ontology of writing. Two thematic motifs, namely trace and gi...

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Main Author: Andrzej Zawadzki
Format: Article
Language:Polish
Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu 2017-12-01
Series:Przestrzenie Teorii
Online Access:http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/10384
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spelling doaj-7bda44b4563f41a5a0f43b3125b8198c2020-11-25T02:35:52ZpolWydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w PoznaniuPrzestrzenie Teorii1644-67632450-57652017-12-0102717319410.14746/pt.2017.27.139947Writing as a trace and as a gift. On Witold Wirpsza's “Attempts at writing“Andrzej ZawadzkiThe article attempts to interpret the Attempts at writing series of poems in Witold Wirpsza’s volume of poetry entitled Superstitions. This has been read as something of a poetic and philosophical treatise dealing with nature and also the ontology of writing. Two thematic motifs, namely trace and gift, which appear in this series regularly and in numerous variants, are interpreted in the context of contemporary post-metaphysical philosophy (Derrida, Blanchot, Lévinas, Ricoeur) and presented metaphorically as writing that blurs or eradicates presence: being, subject, meaning.http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pt/article/view/10384
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Writing as a trace and as a gift. On Witold Wirpsza's “Attempts at writing“
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title Writing as a trace and as a gift. On Witold Wirpsza's “Attempts at writing“
title_short Writing as a trace and as a gift. On Witold Wirpsza's “Attempts at writing“
title_full Writing as a trace and as a gift. On Witold Wirpsza's “Attempts at writing“
title_fullStr Writing as a trace and as a gift. On Witold Wirpsza's “Attempts at writing“
title_full_unstemmed Writing as a trace and as a gift. On Witold Wirpsza's “Attempts at writing“
title_sort writing as a trace and as a gift. on witold wirpsza's “attempts at writing“
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description The article attempts to interpret the Attempts at writing series of poems in Witold Wirpsza’s volume of poetry entitled Superstitions. This has been read as something of a poetic and philosophical treatise dealing with nature and also the ontology of writing. Two thematic motifs, namely trace and gift, which appear in this series regularly and in numerous variants, are interpreted in the context of contemporary post-metaphysical philosophy (Derrida, Blanchot, Lévinas, Ricoeur) and presented metaphorically as writing that blurs or eradicates presence: being, subject, meaning.
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