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„To wszystko jest częścią podróży do samego siebie” — doświadczenia graniczne jako moment kształtujący tożsamość we współczesnych autobiografiach wspinaczy

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Ismer S., Peter N.

Góry, Literatura, Kultura

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2017

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vol. 11

389-397

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Experiencing physical and mental boundaries has always been part of mountaineering. However, over the last 150 years we have witnessed a process in which, in climbers’ accounts, mountaineering and climbing become more and more important as liminal experiences. While in the so-called “golden age” of mountaineering (1850–1865) the authors focused on the first ascents of well-known summits and during the “heroic mountaineering” stage (1930s) they described primarily traverses of increasingly difficult routes, what comes to the fore in contemporary autobiographical works of professional climbers is the representation of subjective and individual liminal experiences. In recent autobiographies climbing gains importance as an individual quest for experiences and is presented as a form of self-fulfilment: liminal experiences of climbers become moments shaping their identity. The process is reflected in the style of climbing, which has evolved from collective expeditions to radical solo climbs. Speed or free solo climbs are an example of such an individualistic approach, in which grappling with oneself gets at least as much attention as grappling with the mountain. The authors of the article explore, from the perspective of literary studies and sociology, the representation of liminal experiences as identity-shaping moments in contemporary autobiographical works by Lynn Hill (Climbing Free, 2002), Catherine Destivelle (Ascensions, 2003), Alex Honnold (Alone on the Wall, 2015) and Andy Kirkpatrick (Psychovertical, 2008).

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as alles ist Teil einer Reise zu sich selbst“ — Grenzerfahrungen als identitätsstiftendes Moment in zeitgenössischen Autobiographien von Bergsteiger*innen

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Ismer S., Peter N.

Góry, Literatura, Kultura

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2017

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vol. 11

377-388

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Experiencing physical and mental boundaries has always been part of mountaineering. However, over the last 150 years we have witnessed a process in which, in climbers’ accounts, mountaineering and climbing become more and more important as liminal experiences. While in the so-called “golden age” of mountaineering (1850–1865) the authors focused on the first ascents of well-known summits and during the “heroic mountaineering” stage (1930s) they described primarily traverses of increasingly difficult routes, what comes to the fore in contemporary autobiographical works of professional climbers is the representation of subjective and individual liminal experiences. In recent autobiographies climbing gains importance as an individual quest for experiences and is presented as a form of self-fulfilment: liminal experiences of climbers become moments shaping their identity. The process is reflected in the style of climbing, which has evolved from collective expeditions to radical solo climbs. Speed or free solo climbs are an example of such an individualistic approach, in which grappling with oneself gets at least as much attention as grappling with the mountain. The authors of the article explore, from the perspective of literary studies and sociology, the representation of liminal experiences as identity-shaping moments in contemporary autobiographical works by Lynn Hill (Climbing Free, 2002), Catherine Destivelle (Ascensions, 2003), Alex Honnold (Alone on the Wall, 2015) and Andy Kirkpatrick (Psychovertical, 2008).

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Literatura łagrowa i lagrowa – ku interdyscyplinarnej definicji gatunku

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Pąkciński M.

Napis. Pismo poświęcone literaturze okolicznościowej i użytkowej

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2018

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vol. 24: Nie tylko wiersz, nie tolko roman. Literatura polska i rosyjska w kontekście gatunków literackich

197-222

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В статье предпринята попытка с новой точки зрения посмотреть на явление лагерной и концлагерной литературы, описывающей опыт пребывания в тоталитарных трудовых лагерях и лагерях уничтожения (как нацистских, так и советских). Для этого предлагается дать жанровое определение такого рода литературы с помощью категорий, разработанных представителями когнитивной антропологии (Дэном Спербером, Ледой Космидес, Джоном Тооби и др.) в применении к опыту, пережитому главными героями этих произведений. Используя такие понятия, как «метарепрезентация», «накопление эпизодической информации», «исходные маркеры репрезентации» или «шизофреническое расстройство ассоциативного аппарата», можно, по мнению автора статьи, определить круг характерных экстремальных переживаний героев концлагерной и лагерной литературы (например, Солженицына, Шаламова, Кертеса), объединяющих их опыт с отрицательными чертами эпохи современности.

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The article presents an attempt to look anew at the phenomenon of ‘labour camp literature’, which describes experiences of the protagonists in totalitarian labour camps or death camps (Nazi as well as Soviet). The endeavour relies on proposing a genological definition of this type of literature, through utilising the categories established by exponents of cognitive anthropology (Dan Sperber, Lena Cosmides, John Tooby, et al.) in relation to the experiences the main characters of these works live through. By making use of notions such as ‘meta-representation’, ‘gathering incidental information’, ‘source markers of representation’, or ‘schizophrenic disorder of the association centre’, it is possible – according to the author of the article – to identify a range of particular, extreme experiences of the protagonists of ‘labour camp literature’ (for example, the works of Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, Kertész), connecting their experiences to the negative traits of the modern era.

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„To wszystko jest częścią podróży do samego siebie” — doświadczenia graniczne jako moment kształtujący tożsamość we współczesnych autobiografiach wspinaczy

as alles ist Teil einer Reise zu sich selbst“ — Grenzerfahrungen als identitätsstiftendes Moment in zeitgenössischen Autobiographien von Bergsteiger*innen

Literatura łagrowa i lagrowa – ku interdyscyplinarnej definicji gatunku