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dc.contributor.author | Tomczok, Paweł | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-05-07T05:31:53Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-05-07T05:31:53Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-83-226-3220-8 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-83-226-3221-5 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/20190 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The work entitled Literary capitalism. The images of economic abstracts in
the Polish literature of the second half of the 19th century offers an analysis of
capitalism based on literary historical sources. The three initial chapters focus
on theoretical aspects of the entire project. In the first chapter, I have systematized
various traditions of the economy of literature developing mainly
in the English- and German-speaking countries. Here, I distinguish two ways
of talking about economy in literature, which stem from Marxist literature
studies on the analysis of ideology and class divisions in culture, and the
research on the relation between economy and a literary form.
Chapter Two discusses the Marxist theory adapted to the studies on the
economy of literature. Here, I refer to the transition from traditional Marxism
to New Marx Reading (neue Marx-Lektüre). I validate the thesis that
economic categories require a discursive legitimization to sustain their being
in force and the validity of real abstracts. The discursive legitimization and
its criticism may have their place in economy, but also in literature and in
journalistic writing. This chapter also deals with the problem of using literary
texts as “sources” for historical studies, including the social and economic
history, and not merely the history of discourse or mentality. The point of
departure is the analysis of the classical formulations of the methodology of
historiography with a view to arrive at an extended theory of the source,
which can be derived from the works of Walter Benjamin.
The third chapter concerns the problems of the history of the second
half of the 19th century. How can the tradition of the economy of literature
be employed for the studies on Polish literary capitalism? Definitely, not by
means of using foreign research as ready-made patterns that can be directly
transferred to Polish literature. Therefore, I trace the problems of the complex
duration of capitalism in various works of the historians of literature, ideas,
society, and economy. I analyse the 19th-century field of power and its ideology. Moreover, I refer to the discourse of underdevelopment and marginality.
In this chapter, I also justify the choice of chronological frames of the present
book. The starting point is constituted by the middle of the century – the
events of Galician Slaughter and the Spring of Nations are seen as a common
experience which anticipated modern social conflicts. I have demarcated
the year 1900 as the end-point, thereby renouncing the analysis of the texts
that approximated the revolution of 1905 which redefined the political divisions
of the Polish society. Between these dates, many important events and
economic processes occurred, including the industrialization supported by
customs policy and the global agrarian crisis, both of which deeply changed
the economic and social structure of Polish lands. The analysis of various
chronological patterns allows for the identification of civilizational, economic,
social, and cultural processes that occurred at an uneven pace. The complexity
of both local and global chronologies renders it impossible to form a great
uniform narration on the extended duration of the Polish underdevelopment
or marginality, compelling instead to trace the noncontinuous character of
the peripheral location.
Chapter Four presents the problems of agrarian, middle-class, and industrial
capitalists. The basic interpretational category constitutes “the subject of
capitalist desire”. Capitalism requires of individuals to become the personifications
of commodity, money, and abstraction. Literature perfectly describes the
dialectal adventures of individuals embroiled in capitalist desires, as well as
the oppositions between various positions that were available for contemporary
capitalists, such as ascetic, merchant, speculator, industrialist, or rentier.
In the fifth chapter, I discuss subordinate groups: peasants, workmen,
urban mob and proletariat. Here I research the ways of discursive enslaving
of individuals, as well as the chances of emancipation and class struggle. The
most important process that was taking place in the second half of the 19th
century as regards the structure of subordinate groups is connected with the
rejection of the feudal forced labour based on physical violence and replacing
it with apparent voluntary contracts between the labourer and the capitalist,
yet practically based on anonymous economic violence that affects the
proletarians devoid not only of capital goods, but also of their livelihood.
The final three chapters have been devoted to the interpretation of the
problems of economy of the most important novels of the period under
investigation: The Doll by Bolesław Prus, The Promised Land by Władysław
Reymont, and Homeless People by Stefan Żeromski. These novels present three
kinds of psychopathology of capitalist personification which stem from the
inability of continuing the parents’ traditions, either due to social advancement,
or social degradation. The literature of this epoch frequently portrays
spectacular falls of fathers who can no longer impose their rules on their sons
– they are too weak, because economic changes deprived them of their high
social status. Their place, the place of the father who insists on respecting
the rules, is being occupied by the capital, which obliges the sons deprived
of their fathers to become the subjects of capitalist desire and to reject the
tradition of their ancestry. | pl_PL |
dc.language.iso | pl | pl_PL |
dc.publisher | Katowice : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | pl_PL |
dc.rights | Uznanie autorstwa-Na tych samych warunkach 3.0 Polska | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/ | * |
dc.subject | literatura | pl_PL |
dc.subject | kapitalizm | pl_PL |
dc.subject | ekonomia | pl_PL |
dc.subject | literatura polska | pl_PL |
dc.subject | literatura XIX wieku | pl_PL |
dc.title | Literacki kapitalizm : obrazy abstrakcji ekonomicznych w literaturze polskiej drugiej połowy XIX wieku | pl_PL |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/book | pl_PL |
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