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The article constitutes a report on the Uniwersytet Zielonogórski conference (11-12 October 2012) initiating a several years-long project devoted to the new take on regionalism in Poland – both in the research in the field of literature and culture, and in lite¬ra¬ry criticism. Analysing the problems dealt with in the papers presented, the author points to the influence on reflection on regionalism of topographic turn, geopoetics, the model of autobiographical place, and post-colonial research
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The article constitutes an attempt at analysing the function of creation of space in Radosław Kobierski's (b. 1971) postmodern novel Ziemia Nod (Warszawa 2010). The novel recounts the fates of several dozen characters, Poles and Jews, between the interwar period and the first few years of the Polish People’s Republic who all inhabit the topography of Tarnów as reconstructed by Kobierski in literature with an antiquarian exactness, care, and precision. The pre-war space of the city is a textual sign defining social, religious and/or ethnic belonging of individual characters as well as their identity. During the war and after its conclusion the abovementioned space undergoes disintegration, and Tarnów becomes a figure of the Holocaust, death and irreparable loss.
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The article analyses the strategies Marek Krajewski employs to portray the city in his Breslau series. Owing to the compatibility of the text (signifier) and city (signified), it is relatively easy to represent the city in a literary text. The city is always already semiotically mediated and therefore prepared for its further semiotic processing in interpretation. Individual strategies of representation are always connected with certain layers of textual structures and are open to analysis by different areas of literary studies. The topographic representation of the city mediated by the layer of historical toponyms that form chains and paths crosses the boundary of the strictly internal textual structure and calls for geopoetics as analytical tool. The strategy of representing ordinariness via period objects for everyday use makes up for the layer of the retro genre. The narrative representation of the city – stories (and their matrixes) that form Krajewski’s literary Breslau – predominantly constitutes the layer of detective thriller. Combination of these strategies of representation of the city, delimited by a cross-section of the textual corpus of the Breslau series, forms Krajevski’s specific generic representation of the city.
World Literature Studies
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2023
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vol. 15
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issue 1
47 – 57
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This article deals with cultural identification and perception of space in the novel Brisbane (2018, Eng. trans. 2022) by Evgenii/Eugene Vodolazkin. The writer presents controversial problems of Russian and Ukrainian relations placing the question of cultural identification of the hero in the centre of his reflections. Despite the fact that the novel depicts many important events from the history of today’s Ukraine, in some sense showing the author’s attitude to them, the core of Vodolazkin’s narration is to expose the issue of particular cultural formation, created in the period of medieval Rus, whose spiritual capital was located in Kyiv. Employing the methods of contemporary research in terms of the geopoetics of place, this article scrutinizes many structural elements of the novel, which as an effect of reading in special code opens the field for analyses of such problems as autobiographical place, symbol of the home, opposition of space and place, and descriptions of the landscape. This study makes it possible to conclude that places depicted in Vodolazkin’s work define the hero not only in the geographical aspect but mainly in the spiritual one, as a man who belongs to the world of Kyivan Rus culture and who finds signposts for understanding complicated questions of the present in the enduring medieval worldview.
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The article focuses on the local narratives of the Podlasie region as represented by Edward Redliński, Sokrat Janowicz, Michał Androsiuk, Jan Kamiński and Ignacy Karpowicz. The author presents the transformations of tendencies in the Podlasie prose of the latest half-century, from the poetics of sociological document to the poetics of grotesque and magical realism, interpreting these transformations as characteristic of new regionalism.
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The article is devoted to the possible inspirations for analysis and interpretation of literary descriptions of space and landscape of history and theory of cartography after its critical turn. One example of such application are landscapes-maps found in Mariusz Wilk's Wilczy notes (The journals of a white sea wolf).
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