„Jak opisać miasto, które nie jest z kamienia, ale z ciała?” Doświadczenie ruchu i dotyku w lekturze dwudziestoi dwudziestopierwszowiecznych powieści miejskich jako szczególna forma flânerie
“How can I describe a town that is not of stone but of flesh”? Experience of movement and touch in the act of reading the twentiethand twenty-first-century city novels as a special form of flânerie

Summary/Abstract: With reference to the concept of „Stimmung-oriented reading” presented in 2011 by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, the author of this article advances a thesis that literature can be experienced in a way that includes such sensations as touch or movement. Category of Stimmung and instruments of geopoetics unexpectedly gained in usefulness in 2020, in terms of unprecedented changes in everyday lives of today’s city dwellers caused by COVID-19 epidemic. „Stimmung-oriented reading” of two city novels – Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and London NW by Zadie Smith – proves the thesis correct.

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