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Zwroty ku przestrzeni w badaniach literackich – próba uporządkowania pojęć i podstawowe rozróżnienia
Shifts to space in literary research: An attempt at organizing concepts and making basic distinctions

Author(s): Kamila Gieba
Subject(s): Theory of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: literature; space; spatial; topographic shift; topological shift;

Summary/Abstract: An increased interest in space in the humanities can be referred to as a spatial, topographic or topological shift. This article is an attempt at organizing these concepts and defining the fundamental differences between them. Based on the findings of European and American researchers (including Edward Soja, Sigrid Weigel, Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich, and Joseph Hillis Miller) and a Polish literary scholar (Elizabeth Rybicka), the author tries to distinguish, and define the relationship, between spatial, topographic and topological shifts. This article was inspired by the terminological chaos in the Polish humanities.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 27-38
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish