In Other Spaces – Narrative Gestures of (Self)Recognition in Selected Literary Works at the Turn of the Centuries

Agnieszka Czyżak

Wydział Polonistyki. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu


Abstract

The article attempts to recognize the most distinctive aspects of spatial representations in literary works from the 20th and 21st centuries. It analyzes the narrative strategies employed in the following novels Terminal by Marek Bieńczyk, Sońka by Ignacy Karpowicz and Ludzka rzecz by Paweł Potoroczyn. Consequently, it shows that textual exploration of space which is foreign, other, untameable may be instrumental in authorial self-representation and that it may additionally reveal the writing process with its innate limitations.

Keywords:

literary space, representation, narrative strategies, Marek Bieńczyk, Ignacy Karpowicz, Paweł Potoroczyn


Published
2016-03-20



Agnieszka Czyżak 
Wydział Polonistyki. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu



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