Abstrakt: | The problem undertaken in the article concerns the place and role of literature in the
process of co‑creating
the discourse of posthumanism. Research material constitutes
the novel by Olga Tokarczuk entitled Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych (Drive
your Plough over the Bones of the Dead). Observations that have been made lead to the
conclusion that the means serving to co‑constitute
posthumanism discourse by artistic
texts are manifold and that they refer to various levels of communication. Here, one
can mention an extended norm of capitalisation (level of orthography), specific measures
undertaken in the sphere of nomination (level of semantics), particular stylistic
solutions on the plan of description (level of narrative structure), various procedures
employed for argumentation (level of rhetoric and style), the reinterpretation of existing
axiological order (level of discourse), intertextual signals (level of text), deliberate
transformations of the functions of a criminal novel genre (level of genology).
Key words: discourse, posthumanism, animal studies, stylistics, Olga Tokarczuk |