Od encyklopedystów do Alaina Robbe-Grilleta. Rzut oka na wybrane aspekty nowoczesnego dyskursu o opisie literackim
From the Encyclopedists to Alain Robbe-Grillet. A Glimpse at Selected Aspects of Modern Discourse on Literary Description

Summary/Abstract: The study examines the issue of shaping the modern discourse on literary description. The research is carried out on most recognised and influential texts directly referring to this form of expression (e.g. by Gotthold E. Lessing, Émile Zola, György Lukács, Allain Robbe-Grillet). Special attention is devoted to negative evaluation of description. This attitude, strengthened by Lukács, developed mostly around a series of oppositions: deep versus surface, autonomy versus subordination, action versus stagnation, anthropocentric versus non-anthropocentric. Additionally, the paper contains a statement that the categories, traditionally linked to description of a threat to the work’s coherence, position of the protagonist, clarity and purposefulness of communication, served the writers and critics of the nouveau roman as justification to employ it as a tool to deconstruct the classical form of the novel.

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