Od literatury jako medium pamięci do poetyki pamięci. Kategoria pamięci kulturowej w badaniach nad literaturą
From Literature as Medium of Memory to Poetics of Memory. The Category of Cultural Memory in Literary Research

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is an attempt to assess whether, and to what extent, the concept of cultural memory can be a useful instrument in literature analysis. Discussion of the ways the category of cultural memory functions in literature (e.g. the concepts of Aleida Assmann and Astrid Erll) is a starting point to determine how such categories as memory of literature and poetics of memory can be described. The perspective of poetics of memory research, in spite of being a new field of study, offers a chance to disentangle from the opposition of subordination to either reflection about cultural memory in literature studies or to the literary studies concepts of memory studies. Scrutiny of the relationships between a literary text and cultural memory from the view point of poetics of memory may lead to cognitively most interesting results, capable of enriching both literary studies and memory studies discourses.

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