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Sienkiewicz’s Shotgun. Introduction to Studies on Hunting Practices of the Author of The Trilogy

Author(s): Wacław Forajter
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Social history, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: hunting; Sienkiewicz; habitus; Bourdieu; masculinity

Summary/Abstract: In the article, Pierre Bourdieu’s “habitus” theory is employed to discuss Henryk Sienkiewicz’s hunting practices. Particular attention is devoted to the way the writer defines the concept of “masculinity” and its relationships with hunting skills. The author also points to the compensatory nature of this type of practices in the context of the nineteenth-century transformations of the social structure, the Polish political situation and the biography of the author of With Fire and Sword.

  • Issue Year: 460/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 181-192
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish