Mythicising and Mythologising: On Dorota Siwor’s book, Traces of Myth and Ritual Cover Image

Mityzacja i mitologizacja. O książce Doroty Siwor Tropy mitu i rytuału
Mythicising and Mythologising: On Dorota Siwor’s book, Traces of Myth and Ritual

Author(s): Barbara Tomalak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: mit; mityzacja; mitologizacja; polska literatura współczesna; myth; mythicising; mythologising; Polish contemporary literature

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the issues touched upon in the book penned by Dorota Siwor, Traces of Myth and Ritual. On Polish Contemporary Prose – Not Only the Latest such as myth, mythologising and mythicising the presented world in the analysed books. She presents them in the context of research theories concerning myth, also, analysing the interpretative conceptions proposed by Siwor. She emphasises the quality of the publication, author’s erudition and the freedom in the selection of threads and motifs, which create a multidimensional space for combinatorial game suggesting potential Fullness, Jung’s coniunctio oppositorum – the union of form and matter, the imagined and real-world, culture and nature. She also indicates the fields on which polemics and criticism of the selection of the theories applied are possible.

  • Issue Year: 17/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 213-223
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish