Efemeryczne byty i przedmioty. O granicach archiwów
Ephemeral Beings and Objects. On the Limits of Archives

Summary/Abstract: In the humanities and social sciences we deal basically either with bodies of documents or fictional works. The purpose of the article is to present reflections on the possibilities of the mutual adaptation – within literary studies – of our research bodies to objects originating from archives: letters, biographies, documents, and others belonging to the order of fiction. The chosen examples are correspondence addressed to Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), self-taught archaeologist, who in his autobiography postulated a model of social promotion based on the desire for knowledge, and Thomas Hardy’s novel: Jude the Obscure from 1895.

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