Published: 2020-12-16

A Persona and a Voice – Dramatic Character in Recent Polish Drama

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Abstract

The disintegration of character in recent Polish drama is closely related to identity crisis and the ensuing negation of the basis and integrity of one's sense of self. A character can hardly be analysed as a person – more often than not, it resembles a linguistic or textual entity rather than a human being. The persona is replaced by a voice or a polyphonic collective body – a choir. In the dramatic works of contemporary Polish playwrights such as M. Koterski, M. Bieliński, M. Modzelewski, L. Amejko or D. Masłowska these forms can be realized as either a fragmented subject split into aspects that cannot be reconciled, or as the subject's external reality, which they perceive as fragmented, incomprehensible and hostile.

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Wąchocka, E. (2020). A Persona and a Voice – Dramatic Character in Recent Polish Drama. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 8(2), 27–42. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/10700

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2011)
Published: 2020-12-22


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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