W kleszczach lęku, w sidłach miłości. Emocje w studiach nad II wojną światową i popkulturą
Caught in the Grip of Fear, in the Snares of Love: Emotions in the Study of World War II and Pop Culture
Author(s): Marta TomczokSubject(s): Polish Literature, Sociology of Culture, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Theory of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: emotional community; love; fear; romance novel; horror novel; World War II;
Summary/Abstract: Tomczok asks how we can theorise and interpret the notion of emotion in relation to popular genre fiction about World War II. Drawing on Barbara H. Rosenwein’s notion of emotional communities, Tomczok outlines the possibilities of understanding the proliferation of fear and love in contemporary romance and horror novels (Łukasz Henel, Joanna Jax, Mirosława Kareta, Stanisław/Sebastian Reńca). She then juxtaposes them to the sparse descriptions in novels published in the 1960s (Józef Hen, Marek Hłasko). Her analysis suggests that the domination of fear and love in recent fiction is not only rooted in the rigid reproduction of models or the idea of making affects marketable. The display of emotion can be an effective tool to express stories that have been suppressed from official discourse about World War II and to create new emotional communities around these stories.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 318-335
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Polish
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