ZMYSŁOWOŚĆ WĘDROWCA: POWIEŚĆ OBERMAN SENANCOURA
The Sensuality of the Wanderer: Oberman by Senancour

Author(s): Joanna Ciemińska
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Senancour; Oberman; wandering; sensoriality; anthropology of the senses; Romanticism; 18th century; Enlightenment
Summary/Abstract: This study examines the theme of wandering present in the correspondence of the narrator of Étienne de Senancour’s novel Oberman (1804) in connection with sensations which he has while travelling or which he relates to the journey. His attitudes towards wandering are reflected in the way he interprets the sensory input perceived while traversing the space. This research, combining literary analysis with methodological presuppositions of the anthropology of the senses, serves to show the psychological role of the physical effort for the narrator, who perceives his own sensuality as a source of knowledge of both himself and the great nature.

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