Fokalizácia ako forma destabilizácie „pevných názorov“ (na príklade analýzy obrazu Nemcov a Poliakov v románe Levinov mlyn Johannesa Bobrowského)
Focalization as a form of destabilization of „fixed opinions“ (On the example of the analyses of images of Germans and Poles in the novel of Johannes Borowski Levinov mlyn)

Summary/Abstract: The presented study aims to analyze and then briefly present the conceptualization of images of oneself and the others in the historical-social novel of Johannes Bobrowski Levinov mlyn, taking into account focalization as one of the possible strategies to destabilize national clichés and stereotypes. The fundamental terminological and methodological basis of this study is represented by the theory of imagology in the understanding of its leading representatives J. Leerssen and M. Beller, which we enrich and expand for narratological concepts by M. Bal for a more thorough and accurate analysis of images as a narrative constructs, while the main concept for our analyses is that of focalization, as the manipulation of the here and now of the reader, formulated by F. Stanzel. The mutation of these two theories (imagological and narratological) should point out the importance and necessity of taking into account not only hermeneutic but narratological analyzes in imagological research as well, which in our opinion are immanent features of every image as a phenomenon that are closely connected with the text especially through the mentioned narrative structures, while the focalization and focalizator as a medium of evaluation and co-conceptualization of those images can tell us a lot not only about their functioning within the narrative text itself (narrative), but also, albeit only partially, about reception and perception by the reader.

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