Warszawska legenda miejska w „Zwierciadlanej zagadce” Jadwigi Łuszczewskiej

• Authors: Joanna Sawicka

Title variants

EN

Warsaw urban legend in Jadwiga Łuszczewska’s "Zwierciadlana zagadka"

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Zwierciadlana zagadka (Mirror’s riddle) is the only science-fiction novel by Jadwiga Łuszczewska who is known primarily as an author of historical novels and improvisator. The present story uses the legend of the basilisk and the efforts to bring it back to life. Analysing Zwierciadlana zagadka through the prism of the urban legend, a phenomenon described in the literature and folklore research in the second half of the twentieth century, allows to read it as a record of the late nineteenth century fear of modern discoveries related to the sphere of human memory − capturing images in photography and on video tape.

Keywords

PL

legenda miejska; bazyliszek; fantastyka; zwierciadło

EN

urban legend; basilisk; fantasy; mirror

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 5(8)
• Pages: 121-131

Dates

published

2015-06-01

Contributors

author

Joanna Sawicka

• Uniwersytet Warszawski