Obcowanie z obcymi. O ludzko-obcych hybrydach w Wojnie światów Herberta George’a Wellsa i Drakuli Brama Stokera

• Authors: Marcela Mikołaj

Title variants

EN

Align with aliens. About human-alien hybrids in H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds and B. Stoker’s Dracula

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

Berhard Waldenfels claimed that at the turn of 18th and 19th century “the alien explicitly and definitely penetrated the heart of the reason and the heart of the one’s own” in Western culture. Since then we no longer live in a world, where we could be fully ourselves. But the alien still haunts us and raises fear. A hundred years later, at the turn of 19th and 20th century, British literature presented two powerful images of confrontation with the alien, images that penetrated the imagination of the mass audience in 20th and 21st century: Martians from H.G. Wells’ famous novel and the iconic bloodthirsty count created by B. Stoker. Though they seemingly radically differ from humans at a close look they make us rethink our definition of humanity and of the alien.

Keywords

EN

alien; hybrid; colonialism; Dracula

Martians

• Publisher: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe, Stowarzyszenie
• Journal: Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 4(128)
• Pages: 25-37

Contributors

author

Marcela Mikołaj

• Zakład Historii Literatury Poromantycznej, Instytut Nauk o Literaturze Polskiej im. Ireneusza Opackiego, Uniwersytet Śląski

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