SCENARIUSZE LUDZKICH ZACHOWAŃ W HORRORZE EMILII DZIUBAK I MADLENY SZELIGI
SCENARIOS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IN EMILIA DZIUBAK AND MADLENA SZELIGA’S HORROR

Summary/Abstract: The book Horror, written by Madlena Szeliga and illustrated by Emilia Dziubak, pre-sents the emotions and dramatic experiences of an inner life (typically associated with humans)from a non-human perspective. The narrative here is surprising and often shocking: it presents whatwe normally see as a stable anthropocentric worldview (where humans are “good beings that takecare of ‘their own’ human order of things”) from a striking perspective. In doing so, the bookexplores people’s relationship with the world of plants. This contribution reconstructs the portrayalof that relationship in Dziubak and Szeliga’s prose by means of lexico-semantic analysis, focusingon the narrative aspects of the linguistic worldview. As the outset, an assumption is made that thescenarios of human behaviour entrenched in language and culture can be substantially reinterpretedif perceived and experienced by a conceptualizer that challenges the apparently “obvious”, lan-guage-entrenched logic, causal relationships, and values of everyday rationality.

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