Wit Pietrzak

Pietrzak, Wit 2020 Scalar ambiguities: Individual resistance and ecological hazard in Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island English Text Construction 13:1, pp. 46–61 | Article

This article focuses on an interrelation of various scales of perception in Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island (2015). Basing itself on Timothy Clark’s delineation of scalar ambiguities, it argues that Satin Island’s main protagonist, U, embodies a process of growing awareness of the world’s infinite… read more

Pietrzak, Wit 2015 Survivals: The Yeatsian element in Paul Muldoon’s “At the Sign of the Black Horse, September 1999” English Text Construction 8:2, pp. 177–193 | Article

I trace Paul Muldoon’s borrowing from Yeats’s “A Prayer for My Daughter” along with some other intertextual references in “At the Sign of the Black Horse, September 1999” (Moy Sand and Gravel) with a view to demonstrating that Muldoon’s poem represents both a challenge to Yeats’s political ideas… read more

Pietrzak, Wit 2014 The Self among its objects: W. B. Yeats’s “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” English Text Construction 7:1, pp. 1–17 | Article

This article explores W. B. Yeats’s “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” as a space of irresolvable tension between the destitution of bodily life, imaged forth by the Soul, and the capacity of poetry to compensate for that destitution, which is projected by the Self. The analysis shows the poem to be a… read more

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