Blurred Modes of the Present: Affective Temporal Structures in Magdalena Tulli’s Work Cover Image
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Zatarte tryby teraźniejszości. Afektywne struktury czasowe w twórczości Magdaleny Tulli
Blurred Modes of the Present: Affective Temporal Structures in Magdalena Tulli’s Work

Author(s): Justyna Tabaszewska
Subject(s): Polish Literature, History of the Holocaust, Theory of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: affect; memory; trauma; Holocaust; Magdalena Tulli;

Summary/Abstract: Tabaszewska examines the unique type of narrative found in the work of novelist Magdalena Tulli (b. 1955). Beginning with a discussion of Tulli’s prose as representing the so-called non-epic prose model, Tabaszewska goes on to highlight the atypical temporal structures in Tulli’s books. Drawing on research on affect (B. Spinoza, B. Massumi, J. Bennett), emotions (S. Ahmed, M. Wetherell) and memory (A. Assmann), Tabaszewska suggests that the key to understanding Tulli’s work is the non-linear temporality caused by a looping of affect and memory.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 96-120
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Polish