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Sebald/Lebda: być ze świata katastrofy
Sebald/Lebda: To Be From the World of Catastrophe

Author(s): Mateusz Kaliński
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: W. G. Sebald; Małgorzata Lebda; Enda McCaffrey; ecopoetics of reparation; trauma

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to point out and define the thematic similarity between the prose of W. G. Sebald and Małgorzata Lebda’s poetry. In a broad sense, the works of both authors represent entanglement in the non-anthropocentric relationship with the world, which I intend to present in the light of “ecopoetics of reparation”, a term coined by Enda McCaffrey and used in reference to W. G. Sebald. This particular approach might help to explain Sebald’s and, by analogy, Lebda’s turn to ecopoetics in the hope of rethinking the experience of trauma.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 14 (17)
  • Page Range: 305-321
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish
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