"Jestem swoją kryjówką" : rzecz o (czystych) oknach i lornetkach, czyli przestrzenie przejrzystości i tajemnicy

Abstract

The essay examines literary (contemporary British fiction) and visual (West­ern art and film) representations of windows as a space of exposition and transgression in respect to the liminal character of their presence in the cul­tural (architectural, social and psychological) landscape. Seen from the per­spective of Goffman's sociology of impression management a "window spec­tacle," i.e looking out of the window and being exposed to the gaze of the other, entails questions concerning control and self-control, social transpar­ency and secrecy and can be approached in terms of the role it plays in the process of "presentation of self in everyday life" and inhabiting of the private and public spaces.