Limin(oid)alność alla polacca – motywy inicjacyjne w Pannie Nikt

• Authors: Robert Birkholc

Title variants

EN

Limin(oid)ality alla polacca: Motifs of Initiation in Panna Nikt

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article aims to provide in-depth analysis of one of the most overlooked Andrzej Wajda’s films Panna Nikt, which is an adaption of Tomek Tryzna’s novel. In reference to Don Fredericksen’s concept of liminality of the director’s cinema, the author of the article examines the motifs of initiation in the movie. Wajda had a double reason for representing the rite of passage: to tell a story of a girl in her puberty period and to create a metaphor of Poland after the transformation in 1989. Although the director was critical towards cultural changes and the influences of the western pop culture, he tried to capture the audience attention by the use of postmodern aesthetics. Because of this Panna Nikt is full of contradictions and could be regarded as an expression of Wajda’s own, artistic liminality.

Keywords

EN

comparative literature; literature and film studies; initiation; rite of passage; liminality; film adaptation; Andrzej Wajda; Polish transformation; postmodernism aesthetics

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Szczeciński. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 5
• Pages: p. 313-329

Contributors

author

Robert Birkholc

• Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Literatury Polskiej, Zakład Komparatystyki