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In and Out, or the Memoir’s Many Points of View

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Kusek R.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2018

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issue 8(11) cz.1

99-112

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the concept of the point of view with regard to the genre of memoir. Having provided a brief discussion of the genre’s poetics and various, often conflicting attempts at establishing its generic indexes as well as its generic identity, the paper will examine several contemporary specimens of the memoir and will try to identify the occurrence of Gérard Genette’s modal triad (i.e. internal focalization, external focalization, and zero focalization) in their respective narratives. What is more, the paper will attempt to conclude whether such a narratological category as “mode” can be considered a generative tool as far as the memoir’s genology is concerned and, if so, what overall implications this recognition might have for understanding the memoir’s poetics and its traditional understanding as a genre of non-fiction.

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The many lives of Henry James – biographers, critics and novelists on the Mastere

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Kusek R.

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis

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2011

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vol. 6

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issue 1

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The return of life-writing genres, biographical writing in particular, to the heart of present-day literary practices remains one of the most interesting phenomena in contemporary literature written in English. The article discusses a number of narratives (written by biographers, literary critics and novelists) which have emerged in the last decades and which attempt to present and critically analyse the life of Henry James, the master of American fiction at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The author recapitulates on the major trends in contemporary biographical practices which address the life of Henry James – especially the conclusions reached by biographers and critics associated with Marxism, Deconstruction, Feminism and Queer Theory. Moreover, the article investigates the phenomenon of the nearly simultaneous arrival of several biographical novels about Henry James.

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„Trucizna płynąca w moich żyłach”: postpamięć Wielkiej Wojny we współczesnych narracjach (auto)biograficznych

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Kusek R.

Przegląd Kulturoznawczy

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2014

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issue 4(22)

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„The poison running in my veins”: postmemory of the Great War in contemporary (auto)biographical narrativesThe paper addresses the issue of an inherited memory of the Great War and traces its manifestations in contemporary (auto)biographical narratives. Two writers’ memoirs, i.e. Christopher Isherwood’s Kathleen and Frank (1971) and Doris Lessing’s Alfred and Emily, (2008) have been selected for an in-depth analysis which aims to show how the children of the survivors/casualties of the Great War have struggled with – to use Doris Lessing’s expression – “the poison running in [their] veins”, namely with an inherited memory and trauma of the trenches. Most importantly, the paper postulates that literary and cultural studies on postmemory should be expanded, both thematically and generically, and cover the memory of the Great War.

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Re-territorialising South Africa. Political Allegory in The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee

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Kusek R.

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis

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2010

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vol. 5

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issue 1

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Jednym z najważniejszych terminów w krytyce twórczości J.M. Coetzeego jest alegoria. Kontrowersje wokół prób literalnego i symbolicznego odczytania twórczości tego południowoafrykańskiego pisarza zdominowały dyskurs naukowy na temat jego twórczości, poczynając od uznania alegorii za podstawową metodę recepcji dzieła literackiego (zwłaszcza w ujęciu takich badaczy jak Dominic Head czy Teresa Dovey), a kończąc na odrzuceniu symbolicznej próby odczytania powieści noblisty (prace Dereka Attridge’a). Niniejszy artykuł dokonuje alegorycznej interpretacji powieści Mistrz z Petersburga z roku 1994, będącej fikcyjną biografią Fiodora Dostojewskiego, a jednocześnie, jak twierdzi autor, zakamuflowaną opowieścią o Republice Południowej Afryki w ostatnich latach apartheidu.

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Przypadkowy turysta? John Maxwell Coetzee w Europie Środkowej – rekonesans

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Kusek R.

Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne

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2020

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vol. 15

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issue 1

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The article’s aim is to reflect upon the transgenerational and transnational sustainability of Central European memory in literary and cultural space of South Africa. It also investigates links between John Maxwell Coetzee’s oeuvre, as well as works by other South African authors (e.g. Dan Jacobson, Lionel Abrahams, Deborah Levy), with cultural and, above all, literary universe of Central Europe. While analysing selected literary and cultural texts (among others, hitherto unpublished archival documents), the author points to the fact that the Nobel laureate’s consistently and programmatically displayed interest in Central Europe ought to be considered within a wider context of systematic and creative “dialogue” with Central Europe which has been carried out by writers and artists from South Africa in the 20th and 21st centuries. The present study is an original attempt at capturing the phenomenon of mutual cultural flows and horizontal exchange taking place between some minor literatures (and cultures), in this case: South African and Central European.

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Wojna o pamięć: Wielka Wojna w literaturze kanadyjskiej

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Kusek R., Szymański W.

Przegląd Kulturoznawczy

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2014

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issue 4(22)

PL

Recenzja:Anna Branach-Kallas, Uraz przetrwania. Trauma i polemika z mitem pierwszej wojny światowej w powieści kanadyjskiej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Toruń 2014, ss. 268

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An Unlikely Pair: Berlinde De Bruyckere and J.M. Coetzee

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Kusek R., Szymański W.

Werkwinkel

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2015

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vol. 10

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issue 1

13-32

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Despite J.M. Coetzee’s ostensible interest in the issues of - largely speaking - visuality, the links between Coetzee’s oeuvre and ‘images’ have not been sufficiently explored either by art or literary critics. The paper offers a detailed discussion of the cooperation between Coetzee and the Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere which has so far resulted in one installation and two art books co-authored by Coetzee and De Bruyckere. Special attention will be paid to the piece “Cripplewood/Kreupelhout” shown in the Belgian Pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennial and the catalogue published in its wake. Also, a number of questions related to the nature of Coetzee’s contribution to both projects, the role of a curator and his relationship with the artist, as well as the catalogue’s generic affiliation and its position in Coetzee’s body of works are thoroughly addressed.

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In and Out, or the Memoir’s Many Points of View

The many lives of Henry James – biographers, critics and novelists on the Mastere

„Trucizna płynąca w moich żyłach”: postpamięć Wielkiej Wojny we współczesnych narracjach (auto)biograficznych

Re-territorialising South Africa. Political Allegory in The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee

Przypadkowy turysta? John Maxwell Coetzee w Europie Środkowej – rekonesans

Wojna o pamięć: Wielka Wojna w literaturze kanadyjskiej

An Unlikely Pair: Berlinde De Bruyckere and J.M. Coetzee