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Miron Bialoszewski: Radical Quest Beyond Dualisms is an innovative and challenging work of literary scholarship that examines Bialoszewski's artistic praxis as a certain philosophical proposition. It differs from the earlier critical approaches to the writings of this writer in as much as it attempts to examine his mature poetry from a non-dualistic perspective. The study demonstrates in detail how Bialoszewski's radical approach to poetry evolves into a consistent life-writing and life-philosophy (life-writing-philosophy). The poet disregards binary oppositions and he approaches life and reality without any universal method. In the poet's mature poetry, the context is identified as life and not as reality, and Bialoszewski's writing is described as his life project which is not searching but rather researching, since it has no pre-established goal to reach except for being continued.
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Contents: Non-Dualistic - Postmodern - Nonjudgemental - Antihierarchical - Postmodernism - Neo-Pragmatist - Life-Writing - Life-Philosophy - Antiessentialist - Beyond Representation or Traversing Platonic Split - Beyond Visual Reality or Traversing Cartesian Split - Beyond Metaphysics or Traversing Kantian Split - Slavic Studies - Polish Poetry - Comparative Literature - Deleuze - Rorty.
About the author
Artur Placzkiewicz is an independent scholar and a writer. In 1989 he immigrated to Canada where he completed his PhD in Polish Studies at the University of Toronto. He lectured there teaching courses in Polish language, culture and cinema. He published articles, essays, prose and poetry in various academic, Polish and émigré publications.
