Zatrzymane w czasie. Romantyczne inspiracje fantastyki, grozy i pamięci Osobliwy dom Pani Peregrine Ransoma Riggsa jako szkolna lektura
Stopped in time. Romantic inspirations of fantasy, horror and memory Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs as a school reading

Author(s): Dorota Michułka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: thriller; horror; a novel for youth;imagination;
Summary/Abstract: The author of the article argues that the prose by Ransom Riggs affects the reader through colours, sounds, smells and flavours, while the narrative poetics refers to both the thriller and horror novel and symbolism of mental images, the world of romantic historiosophy and transcendence, as well as the absurd humour resembling a specific character of Alice in Wonderland. What plays an important role in the story is: individual memory and an extraordinary dialogue between generations, a special emotional relationship, a unique emotional understanding that Jacob and his grandfather have at the beginning of the story, and the boy’s great desire and commitment to discover the secrets of his grandfather’s biography. However, it is the author’s fantasy that, above all, constitutes the artistic dominant in the story. It, by activating deep layers of imagination and emotions, opens reading minds to ‘other’ worlds.

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