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• Title:
  Problematyka opisu w "Popiołach" Stefana Żeromskiego
• Creator:
  Olędzki, Mirosław
• Contributor:
  Szynal, Edward
• Description:
  "The author's objective was to offer in this dissertation a possibly precise analysis of description as one of the aspects of narration in Stefan Żeromski''s Ashes (a famous novel of one of the most outstanding writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th c.) Żeromski's novel, published in 1904 and constituting one of the milestones of the Polish classic fiction, is a work whose actual form was shaped by several factors: 1) the theme which was a vision of the Polish history against the background of the Napoleonic era, 2) the Partitions as the time that gave rise to that vision, 3) the poetics of Modernism, 4) the writer's individual style. Such a difficult task required that the author of the paper employ a consistent and systematic theory of description. 'I'he best means to achieve those ends was to work out a new theory of description. I'hat is why the dissertation consists of two parts. The first one is a record of the author's way to the definition of description. 'The definition lays particular emphasis on the following aspects: 1) description as a form of narration, 2) description as the narrator's monologue, 3) phenomena on the subject-object axis of description, 4) adequate demarcation between description and relation. "The theory calls into question the so far predominant (in the delimitation of descriptions) opposition of the static and the dynamic elements in the object of the narrator's monologue, and negates its validity as a key criterion by which to define the form of narration. Apart from that, the author offers a new subject classification of description — putting aside certain terms as, for instance, ''description of situation”. The other part of the work shows the validity of the attained theoretical system for the analysis of the narration in Ashes. Making use of the term 'narrative perspective” the author of the paper introduces the notion of sphericity, which is particularly important for the characteristics of the subject layer of description. Discussions of some concerte descriptive units with clearly drawn boundaries constitute only a small fragment of the examined individual descriptions. T'he second part of the paper closes with the typology of descriptions in Ashes and the respective statistics— this being, at the same time, a synthetic view on the problems discussed, a presentation of actual results of the undertaken research and a summary of remarks and conclusions concerning the narration in Ashes. The dissertation is a fragment of a larger work.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2022.10.26;
  1988
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  Polish
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich we Wrocławiu
• Relation:
  Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich;1-2;
  31
• Subject:
  Stefan Żeromski;
  Ashes;
  novel
• Identifier:
  0084-4446;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/43907 ;
  2451-0335
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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  image