Crisis and Passio: Encyclopedists and the Creation of an Encyclopedic Work
Crisis and Passio: Encyclopedists and the Creation of an Encyclopedic Work
Author(s): Łukasz WróbelSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: encyclopedism; encyclopedia; empirical author; zoe; catastrophe; crisis
Summary/Abstract: In the article I discuss that in encyclopedic works, from the Roman beginnings of encyclopedic discourse, there are noticeable textual traces that refer to the experiences and affective conditions of their empirical authors, and that the zoe of the empirical encyclopedist sometimes shines through from behind the bios theoretikos of the encyclopedic self. Moreover, the author’s decision to create an encyclopedic work is sometimes caused by a real or discursively assumed catastrophe as its justification.
Journal: Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media
- Issue Year: 22/2024
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 127-136
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
