Full Description
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.
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
