Fantastyka przełomu XIX i XX wieku w służbie edukacji polonistycznej na rzecz kryzysu klimatycznego
Fantasy of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the service of Polish language education for the climate crisis

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt to introduce into school teaching the practice of re-reading the canon from an ecocritical perspective, and taking into account new texts raising the issue of global warming. The author suggests including fantasy from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular the forgotten works of Antoni Lange, into the curriculum. Works such as New Tarzan and The Memorial of Dr. Chiang-Fu-Li may become an impulse for reflection on the nineteenth-century sources of the current crisis. Paradoxically, fantasy prose at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, read from an ecocritical perspective, reveals the aesthetics of modernism in the new, paradoxically realistic setting of the Anthropocene. Apocalyptic images seem extremely compatible with the contemporary realities, and constitute a kind of intergenerational parallel (19th–21st century).

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