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Michail Bachtins Konzept der sprachlichen Gattung und seine polonistische Fortsetzung

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Dobrzyńska T.

tekst i dyskurs - text und diskurs

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2018

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issue 11

61–72

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Introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin, the notion of ‘speech genres’ (Bachtin 1979) is fundamental to discourse studies. It enables to describe messages from various fields within a uniform methodology, and discover (inter)dependencies between literary works and the repertoire of genres used in other areas of communication, whilst also providing tools for comparison of the repertoire of forms of speech used in various cultures. The article outlines the main threads of the research done in Poland in reference to the Bakhtin concept. The most essential accomplishments include: (i) a description of numerous speech genres which reveals the dissimilarities of their modal confines, proposed by Anna Wierzbicka (Wierzbicka 1983), subsequently taken advantage of in the ethnolinguistic studies by this author; (ii) numerous elaborations on individual genres and their repertoire as used in various fields of discourse (primarily, studies by the scholars based in Katowice, Opole, and Lublin); and, (iii) analysis of the content of the notions of ‘primary genres’ and ‘secondary genres’ and of genre contaminations (Dobrzyńska 1992).

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„Чаемое будущее” и „идти вперед” – категория будущего в научном творчестве Михаила Михайловича Бахтина

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Szubin R.

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia

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2022

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vol. 47

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issue 2

103-114

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In the article the scientific works of Mikhail Bakhtin are considered as one text with its own single metaplot. The motive of moving forward (“going forward”) is analyzed and treated as the basis of Bakhtin’s progressive outlook, his hopes for the future and for the dialogue in the Great Time. Attention is drawn to a specific period of the Russian thinker’s intellectual life, that is associated with the departure from the ideas of solipsism. The concept of “I – others” is considered a turning point and is compared with the Copernican revolution, which is carried out in the philosophical worldview of a Russian scientist and then transferred to the studies of the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky. It reveals, in particular, the philosopher’s gradual departure from individual reality and his approach towards personalism. The future for Bakhtin is a creative, active category that determines the present. At the same time it is noted that the forward movement as expressed by the Russian thinker is ambivalent and associated with the turn to the past and the source. Along the way the concepts of memory, the curvature of progress, the idea of historical inversion, etc. are also studied. Besides, Bakhtin’s criticism of the Enlightenment idea of progress, Western rationalism and humanism are mentioned. In this regard Bakhtin’s concept of the rebirth acquires great importance, in which, under the influence of movement towards the future, the past is updated.

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Participative Reason as a Basis of a Decent Human World

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Shcherbina Y.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2017

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issue 2

45-55

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Mikhail Bakhtin’s term “participative reason” (uchastnoe myshlenie) means “reason that acts”—a way of thinking in which a person participates because it is not indifferent to the fate of the Other. The article considers two main trends in the understanding of participative reason. The first is connected with the co-being of I and the Other, the second develops the idea of obligation and non-alibi in being. The article aims to show that the unity of these two interpretations could make “participative reason” a basis for a more decent human world.

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Ностальгия по Логосу: поэзия Ивана Жданова в контексте неотрадиционализма

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Fedorushkov E. A.

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia

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2019

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vol. 44

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issue 1

73-82

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The paper aims at presenting an attempt to interpret Ivan Zhdanov’s poetry in the context of neotraditionalism. This literary project, founded by Valery Tiupa, is based on the idea of dialogue by Mikhail Bakhtin as well as philosophy of personalism by Martin Buber, Nikolai Berdyaev, Emmanuel Levinas. In contrast to postmodernism, neotraditionalism takes an attempt to restore the value and esteem to widely understood cultural tradition (especially Mediterranean and Christian cultures).

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Mapping Multiple Voices in B. S. Johnson’s House Mother Normal

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Malicka J.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2012

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issue 21/1

41-60

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The present article is an attempt to analyse House Mother Normal – a littleresearched novel by the British experimental novelist B. S. Johnson. Starting with a general discussion of the author’s literary tenets, the analysis then focuses on the novel at hand, special emphasis being given to the ways in which it maintains continuity with Johnson’s previous works, as well as to the areas in which divergence from the author’s oeuvre is visible. Following these remarks, a question is posed concerning the somewhat complex relationship between the characters and the narrator in the novel, the main problem in this respect being the extent to which the narrator, if indeed present at all, is visible in the text. Finally, the focus of the article shifts to the novel’s multivoicedness, which is then discussed in terms of Bakhtinian notions of polyphony and dialogism. The subsequent analysis of selected excerpts from the novel demonstrates that House Mother Normal for the most part eludes any easy classification and thus subsuming it under Bakhtin’s categories is as seemingly easy as it is problematic and disputable.

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Comedy and humour: an ethical perspective

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Bidgoli M.

The European Journal of Humour Research

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2020

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vol. 8

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issue 1

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In this essay, I aim to study comedy and humour from an ethical perspective. My main proposal is that comedy and humour can be understood alternatively in the light of ethics, and in one sense, they actually begin, more effectively, with an ethical sensibility. Effective comedy and humour initiate through an ethical sensibility called “hospitality”; ideally, they are preceded by this ethical openness. I will argue that it is this pre-original ethical hospitality and openness that can give rise to more effective moments of comedy, humour, carnival, festivity and also laughter, opening the Self to the Other in order to be able to enter into a disinterested humorous (dialogic) experience. Hospitality is of prime importance here because it turns out to be part and parcel of comedy as it also underlies the ethics of alterity. I therefore suggest that the thoughts of both Emmanuel Levinas and Mikhail Bakhtin can give rise to a fruitful study of ethics, comedy and humour. I will “reduce” socio-political complexities of our daily life-world to comic moments through Bakhtin, and then expose the reader to a Levinasian simplicity and ethical openness that actually takes place before effective comedy and humour can begin. In this essay, I mainly have literary/critical aims, and to fulfil that aim, I will briefly discuss two Shakespearean works and contextualize my thesis. The matter of studying comedy, humour and ethics in a broader cultural, social and/or philosophical context is open for other thinkers.

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Michail Bachtin medzi antropológiou a epistemológiou: chronotopické myslenie ako účastné myslenie

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Duleba M.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2022

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vol. 70

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issue 2

249-266

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The chronotope (time-space) represents Bakhtin’s most ambiguous and therewith most problematic concept. In scholarly discourse, the chronotope is primarily interpreted either as an epistemological concept expressing the experience of perception, or alternatively as being primarily an anthropological concept expressing the possibilities of the action of a subject in time-space. The study represents a contribution to the existing discussion in its being a response to the contradiction between these interpretive tendencies. By means of the contextualization of the chronotope with Bakhtin’s early concept of participative thinking, the article not only clarifies the interaction of the epistemological and anthropological dimensions of the concept, but also presents a new view of the chronotope as a sign of event in Being and of chronotopic analysis as the realization of Bakhtin’s effort to relate to Being-as-event in participative manner.

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K poznámke pod čiarou: Bachtinov termín „chronotop“ v kontexte materializmu

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Duleba M.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

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2021

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vol. 31

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issue 2

57-72

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This article contributes to the scholarly discourse on Mikhail Bakhtin’s ambiguous concept of “chronotope” (time-space). As Bakhtin “explains” his understanding of “time” and “space” in Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel in the footnote alluding to Kant’s “Transcendental Aesthetics”, claiming to understand “time” and “space” not as “transcendental” but as the forms of the “most immediate reality”, various commentators have focused on the Bakhtin-Kant connection to grasp the term’s conceptual meaning. Responding to the previous scholarly discourse, which has not taken into the consideration the materialist dimension of Bakhtin’s thought, the study reconstructs Bakhtin’s axiology present in his analysis of particular chronotopes and subsequently illustrates chronotope as a materialist anti-ideological tool.

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“…andábame a amolar o «pensamento»…” — a voz dos excluídos en A Esmorga de Eduardo Blanco Amor na véspera do nacemento do pensamento sociolingüístico galego

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Szejko N., Dondelewski B.

Estudios Hispánicos

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2018

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vol. 26

97 - 107

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Goals: In this paper we analyse the sociolinguistic situation of the Galician-speaking representatives of the bottommost social class just after the Spanish Civil War (the 50’s). This context is depicted in the novel A Esmorga of E. Blanco Amor. We introduce the notion of point of view (Bakhtin, Bartmiński) in order to analyse the world portrayed in the novel through the perception of the proper “esmorgantes”. Methodology: Analysis of the distribution of voices in A Esmorga and its sociolinguistic repercussions according to the theory of polyglossia of Mikhail Bakhtin and Das sprachliche Weltbild of E. Sapir and B. Whorf. Comparison of the vision of the world presented by Blanco Amor with the sociolinguistic insights of R. and X. Montero. Results: The voices in the novel are divided into the voice of power of the judge and the oppressed voice of the accused as a conscious election in which the word is given to the excluded. Conclusions: A Esmorga is a novel in which the reader finds a heterotopic vision of the world, divided between two voices and viewpoints. The esmorgantes reach the limits of human behaviour, although through this bordering experience they encounter a new language, the language of the truth.

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Na początku był karnawał. O Karnawale, czyli pierwszej żonie Adama Sławomira Mrożka

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Walczak D.

Roczniki Humanistyczne

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2014

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vol. 62

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issue 1: Literatura Polska

085-095

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Artykuł jest próbą interpretacji ostatniej sztuki Sławomira Mrożka, zatytułowanej Karnawał, czyli pierwsza żona Adama. Autorka podkreśla, że utwór powstał na emigracji, w Nicei, choć pomysł na jego napisanie zrodził się dużo wcześniej – jeszcze w latach 90., podczas pobytu pisarza w Meksyku. Karnawał jest dla niej kolejnym, może nawet najwyraźniejszym, dowodem na wyzwolenie się Mrożka z rodzimych obsesji i przekierowanie uwagi na sprawy bardziej uniwersalne. Swoją interpretację koncentruje wokół teorii karnawału i karnawalizacji świata Michaiła Bachtina. Wykazuje, że obraz świata przedstawionego w dramacie Mrożka świadczy o wypaczeniu pierwotnej natury karnawału i stawia pytanie o celowość takiego zabiegu.

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The article is an attempt at an interpretation of Sławomir Mrożek’s last play entitled Karnawał, czyli pierwsza żona Adama. The author emphasizes that the play was written in exile, in Nice, although the idea of writing it was conceived much earlier – in the 1990’s, when the writer stayed in Mexico. Karnawał for her is another, perhaps the most obvious proof that Mrożek was liberated from his Polish obsessions and directed his attention to more universal issues. She focuses her interpretation on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the carnival and carnivalization of the world. She shows that the picture of the world presented in Mrożek’s drama proves that the original nature of the carnival is distorted and she asks the question about the advisability of using such a device.

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Secret Rooms, Locked Doors and Hidden Stories: Retelling “Bluebeard” as a Holocaust Narrative in Michèle Roberts’s "Ignorance"

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Goszczyńska M.

Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre

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2020

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vol. 6

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issue 2

52-62

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One of the most grisly European fairy tales, “Bluebeard” is also a story that has proved immensely productive, spawning numerous variants, adaptations and rewritings. This essay offers a reading of Michèle Roberts’s Ignorance (2012) as one such retelling. Roberts employs “Bluebeard” to construct a story that utilises the format of a dual coming-of-age novel but is gradually revealed as a Holocaust narrative. Set in a provincial town in Vichy France, Ignorance makes repeated use of “Bluebeard” motifs to explore the complicity of individuals in Nazi crimes against their Jewish neighbours. Featuring secret rooms, forbidden chambers, locked doors and embedded narratives, the novel tells the story of Jeanne Nérin as she comes to terms with her Jewish identity and accepts her responsibilities as a Holocaust survivor. This account is complemented by several other stories, the most important of which is that of Jeanne’s childhood companion, Marie-Angèle, whose Bildung ends in emotional and ethical failure. Fascinated with the life of bourgeois comfort and respectability, Marie-Angèle embraces what Nancy Tuana describes as “wilful ignorance,” and becomes increasingly complicit in the acts of injustice, exploitation and crime she witnesses.

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Dialogiczność Bachtina, teorie intertekstualne i literatura neowiktoriańska

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Tryniecka A.

Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio FF – Philologia

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2020

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vol. 38

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issue 1

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The article analyzes varying approaches to intertextuality in the light of the recurring interest in neo-Victorian literature. It places a special emphasis on Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism and Gérard Genette’s treatment of intertextuality, which appear to constitute suitable tools for studying the relations between the Victorian and neo-Victorian texts. Essentially, Genette’s intertextual perspective offers a stable classification of texts based on the notion of “architextual network” and, at the same time, is not confined to a “closed system”. While discussing the issue of intertextuality, I also briefly introduce the work done by such Polish scholars as: Michał Głowiński, Ryszard Nycz or Henryk Markiewicz. I especially draw on Nycz’s division of intertextual relations: “text–text”, “text–genre” and “text–reality”. Nycz’s theoretical proposal seems to be appropriate for the study of the Victorian and neo-Victorian novel, as intertextuality in the neo-Victorian texts can be found not only on the textual, but also on the generic and cultural level. It seems that neo-Victorian fiction deserves a special place in modern literary studies: not only does it offer a literary vision of the Victorian world, but also verifies the current, socio-cultural portrayals of this bygone era, thus, providing a commentary on our present-day world as well.

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Celem artykułu jest omówienie podejścia do intertekstualności w świetle zainteresowania literaturą neowiktoriańską. Szczególna uwaga poświęcona zostaje pojęciu dialogiczności Michaiła Bachtina oraz teorii intertekstualności Gérarda Genette’a, która wydaje się najbardziej odpowiednim narzędziem do studiowania relacji między tekstami wiktoriańskimi i neowiktoriańskimi, oferując stabilną klasyfikację tekstów opartą na pojęciu „architekstualnej sieci” i nie ograniczając jej do „zamkniętego systemu”. Omawiając zagadnienie intertekstualności, zwracam również uwagę na wkład polskich naukowców, takich jak: Michał Głowiński, Ryszard Nycz czy Henryk Markiewicz. Wśród polskich badań nad intertekstualnością szczególnie wyróżniam teorię Ryszarda Nycza, która skupia się na trzech relacjach: „tekst–tekst”, „tekst–gatunek” oraz „tekst–rzeczywistość”. Propozycja Nycza wydaje się najwłaściwsza w studiuowaniu powieści wiktoriańskich i neowiktoriańskich, jako że umożliwia ich analizę nie tylko na poziomie tekstowym, ale również gatunkowym i kulturowym. Wydaje się, iż literatura neowiktoriańska zdecydowanie zasługuje na zainteresowanie współczesnych studiów literackich, jako że nie tylko ukazuje literacką wizję wiktoriańskiego świata, lecz weryfikuje także obecne społeczno-kulturowe obrazowanie tejże przeszłości, oferując tym samym komentarz dotyczący współczesności.

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Język, dialog i mowa publiczna – w felietonach Jerzego Pilcha (w świetle koncepcji Michaiła Bachtina)

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Skowronek K.

Świat i Słowo

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2023

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vol. 40

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issue 1

123-149

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Language, dialogue and public speech – in Jerzy Pilch’s columns (in the light of Mikhail Bakhtin’s concepts) The main research objective of this article is to reconstruct reflections on Polish language issues in Jerzy Pilch’s columns (1952–2020). Among other things, the author poses questions concerning the evaluation of the state of contemporary Polish contained in these texts and the existing – according to Pilch – relations between language and the social context. The textological analysis and interpretation of the selected columns is made with the help of some concepts of the eminent humanist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975), such as polyphonicity, dialogue, speech genre… The analysis demonstrates the importance of the theme of language in Jerzy Pilch’s column writing. His reflections range from the general contemporary Polish language to individual words, their history, semantics and connotations. The meta-linguistic motifs of the columns concern not only private speech, everyday conversations, but also dialogue in the public, political sphere. Pilch’s assessment of contemporary Polish is generally negative. Descriptions of linguistic usus dominated by Internet slang and unnecessary English neologisms prevail. However, language, Pilch believes, is a ‘self-cleaning’ mechanism.

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„Авиатор” Евгения Водолазкина как жанр дневника

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Wojciechowska M.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica

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2019

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issue 12

199-211

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The purpose of this article is to investigate the diary genre as used in Evgeny Vodolazkin’s novel The Aviator. The author of the paper attempts to describe and emphasize the innovativeness of Vodolazkin’s approach, as compared with the main classic features interpreted in the light of Elena Bogdanova’s article entitled ‘Language features of the diary genre’ (2008) which brings a classification thereof.

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Целью настоящей статьи является представление творчества современного и самого популярного русского писателя Евгения Германовича Водолазкина в романе Авиатор, написанном в форме дневника. В статье представлен новаторский подход автора к жанру дневника, который сопоставлен с классической классификацией Елены Богдановой в ее научной статье Языковые особенности жанра дневника (2008).

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THE CHRONOTOPE OF LOVE EXPLORED THROUGH ORHAN PAMUK’S THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE

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Vaso K.

Świat Tekstów. Rocznik Słupski

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2018

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vol. 16

139-148

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Through Orhan Pamuk’s novel, The Museum of Innocence, and Mikhail Bakhtin theory on the chronotope, specifically the idyllic chronotope, the article explores the specific chronotope of love which possesses a dual nature, both specific and timeless. Like all lovers, the novel’s protagonists, Füsün and Kemal belong simultaneously to the particu-lar place and time of their circumstances and the intimate world they create which tem-porarily transcends the boundaries of space and time. This private world echoes that of Adam and Eve, one suspended between the innocence and isolation of a private world and the looming threat of the real world’s interference. This dynamic between the place-less and time-less world of two and its existence within a specific place and time is espe-cially palpable in Orhan Pamuk’s novel, the very premise of which rests on the preserva-tion of a specific temporal period through artefacts, here belonging to Füsün, Kemal’s love. The eponymous museum refers to Kemal’s obsessive gathering and conservation of any item that belongs to her. The meetings of the lovers are dated with a historian’s precision and placed in the exact spot of Istanbul, the author’s beloved city. Kemal and Füsün could be Adam and Eve or any other literary couple following in their footsteps, yet their isolated world is interrupted by the noises, light and smells belonging to Istanbul alone. This specific chronotope belonging to love echoes Peter Pan’s island or Alice’s wonderland but the adult version of this private universe cannot be quite as separate from the real world. The latter can only partially escape and remains halfway trapped in its exact coordinates and time zone. My article ventures the thesis that the children’s and adult’s versions represent a similar effort to create a world of innocence and freedom though to a lesser degree in the second case.

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Michail Bachtins Konzept der sprachlichen Gattung und seine polonistische Fortsetzung

„Чаемое будущее” и „идти вперед” – категория будущего в научном творчестве Михаила Михайловича Бахтина

Participative Reason as a Basis of a Decent Human World

Ностальгия по Логосу: поэзия Ивана Жданова в контексте неотрадиционализма

Mapping Multiple Voices in B. S. Johnson’s House Mother Normal

Comedy and humour: an ethical perspective

Michail Bachtin medzi antropológiou a epistemológiou: chronotopické myslenie ako účastné myslenie

K poznámke pod čiarou: Bachtinov termín „chronotop“ v kontexte materializmu

“…andábame a amolar o «pensamento»…” — a voz dos excluídos en A Esmorga de Eduardo Blanco Amor na véspera do nacemento do pensamento sociolingüístico galego

Na początku był karnawał. O Karnawale, czyli pierwszej żonie Adama Sławomira Mrożka

Secret Rooms, Locked Doors and Hidden Stories: Retelling “Bluebeard” as a Holocaust Narrative in Michèle Roberts’s "Ignorance"

Dialogiczność Bachtina, teorie intertekstualne i literatura neowiktoriańska

Język, dialog i mowa publiczna – w felietonach Jerzego Pilcha (w świetle koncepcji Michaiła Bachtina)

„Авиатор” Евгения Водолазкина как жанр дневника

THE CHRONOTOPE OF LOVE EXPLORED THROUGH ORHAN PAMUK’S THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE