Contemporary poetics eagerly undertakes the study of texts which are related to the extreme. In the past, the motivation behind such works was the belief that borderline, transgressive, experiences allow the modern subject to learn something new about themselves, society, and the material world. (...)
From the poetics of disgust to meta-literary affirmations, or what Bernhard found in Gombrowicz
Marian Bielecki
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This article presents an interpretation of selected novels by Thomas Bernhard based on the hypothesis of literary influence, in the wider perspective of Witold Gombrowicz’s meta-literary and anthropological views. (...)
Landscape and Imagination: A History of Fascination and an Anatomy of Passion in Jacek Woźniakowski’s Góry niewzruszone [Immovable Mountains] and Robert Macfarlane’s Mountains of the Mind
Elżbieta Dutka
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Mountain studies in the humanities concentrates on the relation between people and mountains. Robert Macfarlane explored that topic in Mountains of the Mind (2003). In this article, Macfarlane’s bestseller is compared with Jacek Woźniakowski’s Góry Niewzruszone [Immovable Mountains] (1974). (...)
Tagi: Elżbieta Dutka, winter 2024Eco-psychological Analysis of Literary Descriptions of Catastrophe. The case of the Fukushima tragedy in 2:46 aftershocks, stories of Japan earthquake
Shuai Tong
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This research paper attempts to explore an intersection between psychoanalysis and ecocriticism in Japan. Specifically, applied to the literary descriptions in the work “2:46 Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake (2011)” from the eco-psychological viewpoint. (...)
Tagi: Shuai Tong, winter 2024