„Jestem swoją kryjówką”: Rzecz o (czystych) oknach i lornetkach, czyli przestrzenie przejrzystości i tajemnicy
“I am my own hiding place”: On (Clean) Windows and Binoculars or Spaces of Transparency and Secrecy

Summary/Abstract: The essay examines literary (contemporary British fiction) and visual (Western art and film) representations of windows as a space of exposition and transgression in respect to the liminal character of their presence in the cultural (architectural, social and psychological) landscape. Seen from the perspective of Goffman’s sociology of impression management a “window spectacle,” i.e looking out of the window and being exposed to the gaze of the other, entails questions concerning control and self-control, social transparency and secrecy and can be approached in terms of the role it plays in the process of “presentation of self in everyday life” and inhabiting of the private and public spaces.

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