Published: 2023-05-26

Slips of Tongue Towards Life (on Joanna Mueller’s Poetry)

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Abstract

The article is focused on the poetic work of Joanna Mueller. The author is interested in how the issue of the form-of-life is functionalized in her poetry and how her critical project, focused precisely on the modern category of life, translates into strictly literary activities. He begins with a polemic against the accusations of the conservativeness of Mueller’s poetics and her apparent experimentalism, referring to romantic gestures of defending subjectivity rather than its neo-avant-garde transgression, and tries to show how this stance actually is coupled with the feminist, new-materialist struggle for the form-of-life and the unveiling of immaterial labour. The stakes of Mueller’s poetic game, then, are not a poem that articulates social anger or acts as a dialectical negation of the capitalist system but an affirmative lagging that accommodates and secures a precarious life.

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Skurtys, J. (2023). Slips of Tongue Towards Life (on Joanna Mueller’s Poetry). Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies], 21(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2023.21.04

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2023)
Published: 2023-10-26


ISSN: 2084-0772
eISSN: 2353-0928

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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