- Tytuł:
- Towards the borderline poetics: Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing
- Autorzy:
- Kusek, Robert
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2076900.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2016
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
- Tematy:
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Doris Lessing
memoir
auto/biography
genre
borderline poetics - Opis:
- If one were to identify a single area in contemporary literary practices, where the “borderline poetics” comes most powerfully to the fore, one would necessarily need to point to the life-writing domain. Undoubtedly, in recent years, life-writing genres have not only claimed their centrality in the academic discourse, but also managed to attract wide readership. Most importantly, however, they manifest the borderline characteristics (a free interplay of fact and fiction and the genre-bending features in particular) in a manner and to an extent that can hardly be matched by any other type of contemporary literary production. The present paper discusses a text which powerfully manifests the borderline poetics. Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing, a 2008 narrative about the parents of the Nobel Laureate set on the outskirts of the falling British Empire, on the one hand incorporates and accommodates the two seemingly opposite orders, namely fictional and factual; on the other it resists being categorised as belonging to only one, clearly defined genre (e.g. autobiography or biography).The aim of this paper is not to decide upon the story’s unequivocal generic affiliation, but rather to observe the dynamics between factual and fictional realms – the dynamics which lies at the very heart of any life-writing practice.
- Źródło:
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Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny; 2016, 4; 435-445
0023-5911 - Pojawia się w:
- Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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