The following article presents the literary theory of spatial genres, which emerged as a result of spatial turn. It discusses the concepts which link speech genres with a particular geographical location developed by Bakhtin, Szczukin, Moretti, Deguy and de Certeau. The aim of the article is to develop and reinforce the thesis which maintains that every genre has its own space and every space has its own genre. In order to prove the connection between geography and the morphology of a text the author analyzes the writings of Kenneth White, who in his geopoetic literary genetics searches for original genres to express, as he says, “poetic listening to nature”.
The article focuses on the local narratives of the Podlasie region as represented by Edward Redliński, Sokrat Janowicz, Michał Androsiuk, Jan Kamiński and Ignacy Karpowicz. The author presents the transformations of tendencies in the Podlasie prose of the latest half-century, from the poetics of sociological document to the poetics of grotesque and magical realism, interpreting these transformations as characteristic of new regionalism.
The article discusses the monograph Géographie des odeurs, which contains treatises on space anthropology, literature, geography of industry, urban planning, thematising the role of scent in shaping and perceiving space. The authors propose application of the instruments of perceptive geography (e.g. scent maps) to analyze various spatial phenomena.
Artykuł jest interpretacją powieści Jerzego Limona Koncert Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy. Kantata na jedną ulicę, siedem gwiazd i dwa głosy, będącej przykładem literatury zwrotu topograficznego. Powieść opowiada historię ulicy w Sopocie, przy której mieszka autor-narrator. Powieść określam mianem geohistoriograficznej, gdyż autor przedstawia w niej przestrzeń miasta — konkret geograficzny — jako tekst-palimpsest, w którym, warstwa po warstwie, odczytuje przeszłość.
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This article provides an interpretation of the novel of Jerzy Limon Koncert Wielkiej Niedźwiedzicy. Kantata na jedną ulicę, siedem gwiazd i dwa głosy, which is an example of the literature of the topographical turn. This novel tells stories of one street in Sopot (Haffner street), where the author-narrator lives. This novel implements not only the assumptions of geo-poetics but may also be called geohistoriographic, since the author presents a geographic concrete, the space of a city as a conveyor of historic knowledge, for the geographic space is for Limon the text in which one may read the past. The subject matter of the novel is a street fulfilling just the function of a text, or actually text-palimpsest, which is composed with layers of meanings recorded by particular historic eras.
The article constitutes an interpretation of a collection of essays by K. White La carte de Guido. Un pèlerinage europeén (2011), which serves the author to present the method of geopoetics as proposed by the author. The essays in question are also proof of his thesis which puts forth that writing is an „intellectual and existential geography”.
In the paper the author discusses the book Monstruarium (2010) by Anna Wieczorkiewicz as a text constructing the basis of the anthropologicaldiscourse dealing with the phenomenon of monstrosity as well as otherness in the broad meaning of the term. The focal issues are various, changing in time, forms of personality.
The paper contains the interpretation of the latest novel by Jacek Bocheński Tyberiusz Cezar (2009), in which the narration is conducted fromthe perspective of a historian-amateur of the antiquity appearing in the role of a guide of a trip following the route of Tiberius. Such a situation ofnarration constitutes the starting point of reflections on the motif of journey in the historical novel, the phenomenon of historical tourism as well as the journey into the past understood as a metaphor of historical cognition.
The author of the article attempts at defining the “poetics of dwelling” understood as a form of practicing a place, which a human is responsible for. Dwelling, the main problem of geopoetics according to the author, is analysed including the following discourses: literary, geographical, and architectural.
This article is based – on a reading of Erwin Kruk’s Rondo, Kronika z Mazur, Spadek. Zapiski mazurskie 2007–2008 (Roundabout: A Masurian chronicle; Legacy. Masurian notes, 2007–2008). It explores the evolution of the writer’s autobiographical attitude, which became particularly clear after 1989 and it inscribed itself in the trend of “re-self-presentations”. Another aim of this study is to illustrate the formal and artistic changes in the way of using autobiographical materials.
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Artykuł przedstawia ewolucję na przykładzie utworów Erwina Kruka Rondo, Kronika z Mazur i Spadek. Zapiski mazurskie 2007–2008 – przedstawia ewoluowanie postawy autobiograficznej pisarza, wyraźnie ujawniającej się po 1989 roku i wpisującej się w nurt tak zwanych ponownych autoprezentacji. Celem autorki jest też wskazanie zmian formalnych i artystycznych w sposobie wykorzystania tworzywa biograficznego.
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