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The European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) collects books, journal articles, reviews and dissertations from Eastern Europe (former countries of Eastern Bloc) which were published in Belgium, Germany, Finland, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland from 1991 to 2007. The segment "Literature" and "Culture" of the European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies contains 18.000 bibliographic entries (from the total asset of 85.000). More information can be found here.
| ID | 103669 |
| Author(s) | Blazina, John |
| Title | Szymborska's Two Monkeys: The Stammering Poet and the Chain of Signs |
| Published | Modern Language Review 96, 2001, pp. 130-139 |
| Language(s) | English |
| ISSN | 0026-7937 |
| Subjects | Szymborska, Wislawa / Criticism and Interpretation [Browse all] |
| Note | "Ecphrastic in genre, ‘Breugel’s Two Monkeys' heightens and bridges the disparity between language, abstract and arbitrary, and the world. Chained to a window overlooking a bright vision of flight and buoyancy, of perfect ease in their medium, the monkeys reinforce Szymborska's ironic contrast between the reality and the delusive utopianism of Stalinist power. However, they resist allegorical readings: reduced to signs of human difference and superiority, they expose these as figments of language, figures of speech. Using their chains as a sign, they offer dialogue as a way of defusing the poet's anxiety about the mimetic disadvantages of language." |
| Medium | article |
| URL | muse.jhu.edu (homepage) Vol. 96, Iss. 1 (2001) - |
| Holdings | see in ZDB-Katalog |
| PURL | Citation link |
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