Description

• Title:
  Historie alternatywne w literaturze polskiej: typologia, tematyka, funkcje
• Creator:
  Wąsowicz, Magdalena
• Contributor:
  Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, Zakład Historii Literatury i Kultury Amerykańskiej
• Description:
  Alternate history, the type of fiction which describes worlds in which history developed differently than in reality, is often depreciated as a subgenre of science–fiction. Yet Polish alternate history novels are in reality an interesting commentary on polish culture, history and memory. In this paper I present the subject–matter of Polish alternate history novels, their functions and their relevance to Polish culture. In the first part I describe the history of counterfactual thinking and historians’ attitude towards it. In the second part, I emphasize that there are two types of alternate history. I name them “non-fiction” and “fiction”. Next, I provide the definition of alternate history. In the third part of the article I describe functions of alternate history novels. These functions show clearly that they are not created for entertainment only. On the contrary, they comment on important features of Polish culture.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2023.02.17;
  2016
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  Polish
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
• Relation:
  Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich;2;
  59
• Subject:
  alternate history;
  counterfactual history;
  polish literature;
  science-fiction
• Identifier:
  0084-4446;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/46041 ;
  2451-0335
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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