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Journal

2006 | 47 | 4-5 | 473-490

Article title

PROBLEMS WITH THE PAST: POLISH HISTORICAL FICTION AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

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PL

Abstracts

EN
The article tries to describe two types of fictional narratives inspired by the main principles of the 'New Historicism', Both J.M. Rymkiewicz's novels as well as J. Limon's 'Whale' situate themselves in opposition to traditional historical narratives. The author of 'Zmut' defies it by a deliberate 're-presentation' of the past and by letting his narrator communicate with and capture reality 'in statu nascendi', alive because embodied in matter. In effect the writer does not follow the trail of 19th-century fictionalized biographies. Instead he creates a metaphysical space in which 'there' and 'then' merge with 'here and now'. In the 'Whale' the past is no longer the object of painstaking copying ('reflection'). The past is now 'discovered' with the help of stylized 'anthologies of source materials', which reveal a broad variety of historiographical conventions. The collage composition of Limon's works is turned into a system of mirrors, which reflect not reality perse, but its textually mediated aspect.

Journal

Year

Volume

47

Issue

4-5

Pages

473-490

Physical description

Document type

ARTICLE

Contributors

author
  • A. Chromiuk, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej w Lublinie, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, pl. M. Curie-Sklodowskiej 4, 20-031 Lublin, Poland

References

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Publication order reference

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier
07PLAAAA02715551

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.4d4753ba-2ff9-3994-bcc1-d3e2f515bd30
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