Formuły i figury pamięci we wspomnieniowej prozie o dzieciństwie
Formulas and figures of memory in recollective prose about childhood

Author(s): Ryszard Waksmund
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: autobiographical prose; childhood;cultural memory;
Summary/Abstract: The article demonstrates that autobiographical prose provides many infallible thematic and stylistic matrices, thanks to which it is possible to articulate not only the memories and give them the proper form, but also the autothematic talking about the work of the memory itself. Therefore, the author suggests that the syntax of individual memory is based on the grammar of collective memory in the form of the declension of certain topics. In the case of the recollective prose about childhood, they are connected with children’s close relatives or institutions, seasons, memorized animals, reading, meals, games, entertainment or clothing. In this way, biographical memory and cultural memory unite in full harmony.

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