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The book stems from the belief that scholars should actively engage with the areas of humanities significantly captured in the literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. Łebkowska applies literary-studies, anthropological, and cultural-studies methods to focus on three categories: soma, affect, and imagination. She is particularly interested in corporeality not only as an interpretative and research category but also as a category that strictly correlates with an individual’s changing epistemological and cultural situation. The book focuses on creative acts described as indelibly connected with an affect of disruption by a sudden impulse or contact with the external. Readers will find chapters related to the vision of the future in the history of literature, imagined geography, and the ambiguously idealized representation of the world.

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Author:   Ryszard Nycz ,  Anna Łebkowska
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   36
Weight:   0.434kg
ISBN:  

9783631872215

ISBN 10:   3631872216
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   30 August 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents A Few Words Instead of an Introduction PART 1. THE BODY AND THE SENSES Somatopoetics The World of Touch: The Novels of Zofia Romanowicz Praise for Touch in Contemporary Discourse PART 2. AFFECT Event – Affect – Creativity Shame and Oblivion What’s New in the “Theatre of Speech”? The Empathic Recipient: Between Simulation and Affect PART 3. SPHERES OF THE IMAGINATION: HISTORY AS PREDICTION AND IMAGINED GEOGRAPHY The Future of Literature Inscribed in Its History (the Twentieth Century and Today) Imagined Europe in Literature of the Modernist Era Affirmation of the World in a Children’s Novel (Wanda Borudzka) Bibliography Index

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Anna Łebkowska is a full Professor of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Her interests include theories of literary fiction, the anthropology of literature, gender studies and the problems of the body and affects in contemporary prose.

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