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Heterotopia i literatura narodowa w Dzienniku argentyńskim Witolda Gombrowicza

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Mandolessi S.
Rocznik Komparatystyczny
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2011
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vol. 2
p. 245-264
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As David Damrosch claims in his work World Literature. National Context (2003), literature should not be perceived only from a national, limiting, perspective. A literary text always balances between the culture of its origin and the culture of the receiver, it is “connected to both cultures, circumscribed by neither alone”. This is particularly true for the texts of authors in exile. The article of Silvana Mandolessi, now translated into Polish, is an attempt to analyse the Diary of Witold Gombrowicz (in Argentina known as Argentinian Diary) in the context of two cultures: the national culture of the writer (Polish) and the his adopted nationality (Argentinian). Mandolessi claims that in the Diary the tension between these two cultures and spaces is significant. She refers to the notion of “speculative border intellectual” (introduced by Abdul JanMohamed) that combines two cultures into a new syncretic form. It should be emphasized, however, that a critical attitude towards both cultures is maintained. Mandolessi analyses the work of Witold Gombrowicz from this new combined perspective as a piece of travel writing as well as an example of the typical heterotopia (a term borrowed from Michel Foucault). For Mandolessi continuous displacement constitutes a generative background for the Diary. Mar de Plata, Cordoba, Santiago del Estero – all these areas of the Argentinian province are heterotopias in a way that Gombrowicz’s description cumulates in one place various spaces which sometimes are not compatible, similarly to the theatrical stage that contains series of strange scenes. For Mandolessi the function of heterotopias created by Gombrowicz is a compensatory one.
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Prostor a vyprávění. Narativní strategie středověkého cestopisu

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Bažant V.
Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica
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2015
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vol. 18
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issue 2
cs
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The study deals with an analysis of the 15th century Czech travel writings. First part is focused on narrative strategies of autobiographical travel writing and the relationship between narrator and reader model is studied. Second part of the study looks into the narrative and cultural contexts of the frame stories and anecdotes included into travel writings. Their function in a travelogue conception just as their role in the local identities is examined. These stories are an important instrument as they enable both the traveller to understand the region he visited and the travel writer to relate his experience.
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