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    Published: 2020-02-071
    No. 7 (2019)

    “my body was opened for public view...” The Metaphorising of the Sick Body in the 20th- and 21st-Century Polish Poetry by Women

    Beata Morzyńska-Wrzosek
    Prace Literaturoznawcze
    Section: Representations of the change of the 20th and 21st centuries
    https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.4721

    Abstract

    This article discusses selected metaphors of the sick body used in the works of Polish female
    poets in the 20th and 21st centuries. The analysis adopts the perspective of anthropological studies and
    reveals that these metaphors function as a representation of essential aspects of one’s perception and of
    an individual’s struggle to redefine their identity in a situation of health loss. The metaphorical expression
    of the sick body is most often tangible and refers to the classic image of “a body as a container.”
    As far as an indicating scope of imaging is concerned, one may find various types of metaphors which
    characterise issues relating to the acts of breaking body boundaries as well as penetrating it, which is to
    be viewed as the confirmation of going beyond the physicality of one’s existence.

    Keywords:

    contemporary Polish women’s poetry, anthropological reflection, the experience of disease, metaphors of the sick body

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    Morzyńska-Wrzosek, B. (2020). “my body was opened for public view.” The Metaphorising of the Sick Body in the 20th- and 21st-Century Polish Poetry by Women. Prace Literaturoznawcze, (7), 233–250. https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.4721

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