| dc.description.abstract | Juvenilia constitute the source of information about an author, his or her literary initiation, and the artistic
development. In case of Anna Janko and Katarzyna Zdanowicz, they demonstrate the somewhat derivative nature and
lack of autonomy, and at the same time reveal the need for joining the canon, to the extent that they employ
contestation or polemics. In the construction of their works, both poets exploit Shakespearean motifs of
characters, phrases, and situations, including them in the chain of intertextual relations. The situational motifs
construct poetic images as internal memory spectacles (in Janko), and the motifs of characters contribute to
creating poetics of negation and deformation (in Zdanowicz), whereas both poets make use of irony as the sign of
the “I”. The clear references to works and the person of the playwright - understood as the cultural sign, or a
“trademark” - are also visible in the titles of poems, or citations (mottos). The conveying and transforming of the
dramatic elements is always to be seen as cultural modelling. Literary “lessons with Shakespeare” insist on the
present moment through Shakespeare, while the literary provocation executed by the poets makes it possible for the
exposition of ideas and attitudes to ridicule, to be treated as hypothetical and illusive. | en_EN |
