Pisanie „pomiędzy”. O prozie Anny Kańtoch

• Authors: Kamila Czaja

Title variants

EN

Writing “In-Between”. On Anna Kańtoch’s Prose

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article endeavours to present the most significant features of Anna Kańtoch’s prose works. Not only is the author in question capable of utilizing various conventions of popular literature, such as: fantasy, science-fiction, and detective stories, but also to mingle them and come up with “hybrid-genres” that are difficult to pigeonhole (Czarne, Niepełnia). Spatial and temporal changeability characterize the novels and short stories of the Katowice-based writer, making the world depicted therein a place existing “in-between,” and moreover, involving both – brutality of rules that world is governed by as well as palpable desire of a proper moral order, which does not always eventually gains the upper hand.

Keywords

PL

Anna Kańtoch; fantasy writing; genre; synthesis

EN

Anna Kańtoch; fantasy writing; genre; synthesis

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 139-154

Dates

published

2019-06-22

Contributors

author

Kamila Czaja

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/SSP.2019.13.11