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dc.contributor.author | Kłosińska, Krystyna | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-10T08:53:41Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-10T08:53:41Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 8322614101 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/7375 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The book entitled Phantasmata. Grabiński - Prus - Zapolska is composed
of three studies focused on the interpretation of the prose works
by the above-mentioned writers. The author’s readings of Kochanka Szamoty
(Szamota’s Lover), Emancypantki (The Emancipated Women), and
Janka concentrate on their phantasmatic “tissue” . The phantasm - being
a Freudian construct, the meaning of which has been extended and reinterpreted
by Julia Kristeva - is here used for the purpose of a reconstruction
of the characters’ various forms of fantasizing. These forms organise
and reorganise the narration transforming the traditional generic
divisions. The short story by Grabiński is read here not as a fantastic,
but rather as a phantasmatic one. Prus’s Emancypantki is being analysed
from the perspective of the heroine’s phantasmatic projections, and
- having lost its realistic dimension - the book becomes a study in the
woman’s humiliation. Zapolska’s Janka bears witness not so much to the
mystical tendencies in the prose of the turn of the century, but rather
to a confrontation between the masculine phantasm of the woman as the
world, and the feminine imagination and the perspective of finding in
one’s reading what is truly feminine.
Grabihski’s short story makes us read a phantasm, for its narrator
creates a representation of a woman whose phantom-like existence stems
from a projection of his desire. Fantasizing is the topic and the short
story’s governing principle that can be found both inside the text and
outside it. The eruption of the hero’s phantasmatic “behaviours” makes
us abandon the traditional questions about the “ truth” and “ reality”
included in literature. The only certain “fact” is the spinning of the
phantasmatic tale (by the writer, and by the protagonist who keeps his
diary), or, in other words, the act of enunciation.
Emancypantki has been subjected to two different, or even mutually
exclusive readings. One of them, empathising with Prus, makes use of
various conceptions of gift (J. Derrida, H. Cixous, D. Temple, M. Chabal)
in trying to describe the conflict between the economy of exchange and
gift, and the externalised conflict (a rumour / Madzia), which is, at the same time, an externalisation of the inner conflict taking place within
the protagonist. The other reading develops in spite of Prus, but in
keeping with Miss Magdalena’s “logic” of fantasizing. The realistic novel
falls into pieces, while becoming a space where the phantasmatic productions
of the characters, particularly those of the protagonist, take
place. Rumour (one of the forms of fantasizing) and imaginary scenarios
become the main “matter” of the symbolical exchange between the characters.
Communication undergoes degradation - on the stage of the
novel, it is the “mutes” that hold a dialogue guided by their clandestine
desires. Miss Magdalena, in her turn, loses, because of the phantasmata’s
contents, her charming aspect of a “genius of feeling” , and becomes
an allegory of the genius of self-humiliation.
Janka is here read from the point of view of the radical otherness
inscribed in the novel. The otherness of the daughter in a patriarchal
family is not subject to mediation; she is doomed to a radical exclusion,
to muteness, to death in life. The meaning of otherness varies according
to sex. Man is fascinated with his mission of humanity’s benefactor, he
is capable of a phantasmatic acceptance of a generalised abstract identity
(misery), but he loses his fight with the specific substance of life.
Woman, whom man has rejected, can preserve and implement a part of
his “spiritual inheritance” because, among other things, she is open, in
her practical activity, to a radical otherness.
In the supplement, the reader will find a discussion of two books, by
contemporary female critics, concerned with phantasmata. | pl_PL |
dc.language.iso | pl | pl_PL |
dc.publisher | Katowice : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | pl_PL |
dc.rights | Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/ | * |
dc.subject | Stefan Grabiński | pl_PL |
dc.subject | Gabriela Zapolska | pl_PL |
dc.subject | Bolesław Prus | pl_PL |
dc.title | Fantazmaty : Grabiński, Prus, Zapolska | pl_PL |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/book | pl_PL |
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