| Author | Elżbieta Mazur |
|---|---|
| Title | Lyric “postcards” from Italy in the perspective of geo-literary of the senses – on the example of Adam Zagajewski’s “Ligurian Poems” and “Expedition to the South” by Jacek Dehnel |
| Keywords | Adam Zagajewski, Jacek Dehnel, Polish 20‒21th century poetry, sensuous geography, geopoetics, the travels to Italy, poetics of place, space in poetry |
| Pages | 369-387 |
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| Volume | 34 |
The article is an attempt of answering the question on the image of Italy created by Adam Zagajewski and Jacek Dehnel, who traveled to Italy at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The proposed perspective takes into account the sensory geography and anthropology of the senses, highlighting the role of sensual impressions in experiences and presenting places and spaces in contemporary poetry. The interpretation of selected poems lead to the conclusion that the perception of Italy as a journey`s aim for the sun or as a place of intellectual journeys is subject of changes here, conditioned by circumstances like recentivism as a philosophy of the present time, sensorium and humanistic geography, which map contains more and more places and space covered by modern signs.