Reaktywacje dziewiętnastowieczności w najnowszej literaturze popularnej

• Authors: Piechota Dariusz

Title variants

EN

Revival of the 19th century in recent popular literature

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper characterizes recent works belonging to popular literature from the viewpoint of 20th century literature. It turns out that realism as the cultural paradigm is still present in postmodern prose. 19th century literature provides us with a number of narrative structures and motifs which are constantly altered by contemporary writers. In this paper we focus on texts which directly refer to Lalka written by Bolesław Prus (such as Alkaloid by A. Głowacki and Córka Wokulskiego by R. Praszyński) as well as works which indirectly refer to the Victorian era. The dilemmas of burghers living in the second half of the 19th century are still present in the literature of the 21st century. Characters existing in a period of constant change search for their own identity and – frequently – misfits come out and talk about their lives from the viewpoint of an excluded person. It is fitting to add that empathy with neighbors seems to be a very important feature of both 19th century and contemporary narrations.

Keywords

PL

literatura popularna; tradycja; ponowoczesność; tożsamość

EN

popular literature; tradition; postmodernity; identity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Rzeszowski. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
• Journal: Tematy i Konteksty
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 5(10)
• Pages: 175-184

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Piechota Dariusz

• Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie

Identifiers

ISSN

2299-8365