O tym, czy outsider to na pewno tylko (od)cień Obcego, Innego i odmieńca

• Authors: Połczyńska Magdalena

Title variants

EN

Reflections on whether an Outsider is merely a Shade of a Stranger, Other and Misfit

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In literary research, the term ‘outsider’ seems almost absent. It appears slightly more often as a more general notion, but usually alongside three other terms (also not always well defined) to which it is subordinate: Stranger, Other and misfit. Within this heterogenous group, it acts as either a synonym or at best, as a notion close in meaning to the other three, a complement. It seems though that the term ‘outsider’ when referred to a literary character may, as an interpretative category (especially in first-person-narrative prose) prove useful and productive in terms of opening up the interpretation and analysis of a literary work towards dimensions other than those normally inhabited by the three usual companions of the ‘outsider’.

Keywords

EN

outsider; Stranger; Other; misfit; first-person narrative

• Publisher: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Oddział we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 14
• Pages: 299–312

Contributors

author

Połczyńska Magdalena

• Uniwersytet Wrocławski

Identifiers

DOI

doi:10.34616/ajmp.2021.14