Description

• Title:
  “The Innocents” – from the postulate of girlhood to sexual initiation in women’s poetry
• Creator:
  Sołtys-Lewandowska, Edyta
• Description:
  The article explores pictures of “a little girl” and of sexual initiation in 20th and 21st-century Polish women’s poetry, especially by Wisława Szymborska, Barbara Klicka, Jolanta Nawrot, Wioletta Grzegorzewska i Małgorzata Lebda. The girlhood showed in their poems is a certain potentiality of womanhood, often imbued with ripening eroticism very difficult to control. At the same time the girlhood is entangled in schematism of potential scenarios destined for a women subject: personal dependence and sense of being dominated, escape or emancipation. Initiatory poems show rather strong dependence on archetypical (The Little Match Girl) and mythicizing conventions of describing adolescence, still they can present idiomatic construction of female identity.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Edyta Sołtys-Lewandowska
• Date:
  2018.10.26
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish;
  pol
• Source:
  Poznań Polish Studies. Literary Series; No. 33 (2018): (Nie)opisane. Poetki polskie XX i XXI wieku (część II); 9-28;
  Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka; Nr 33 (2018): (Nie)opisane. Poetki polskie XX i XXI wieku (część II); 9-28;
  2450-4947;
  1233-8680
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/15075/14840
• Subject:
  women’s poetry;
  initiation;
  mythization;
  little girl
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/15075
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text