Ślady ekspedycji Franklina w kulturze – zmienne losy opowieści o eksploracji (arktycznej) przestrzeni

The paper examines the changing cultural perceptions of one of the most famous and mysterious geographic expeditions of the 19th century, John Franklin’s search for the Northwest Passage. Analyzed herein in closer detail are two novels: The Discovery of Slowliness by Sten Nadolny and Wanting by Rich...

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Published in:Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze
Main Author: Izdebska, Agnieszka
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Polish
Published: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku 2022
Subjects:
geographical space
Arctic expeditions
Canadian literature
ecoGothic
novel
Arctic
Atwood
Geiger
Northwest Passage
Northwest passage
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11320/13792
https://doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2022.20.04
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Summary:The paper examines the changing cultural perceptions of one of the most famous and mysterious geographic expeditions of the 19th century, John Franklin’s search for the Northwest Passage. Analyzed herein in closer detail are two novels: The Discovery of Slowliness by Sten Nadolny and Wanting by Richard Flanagan, as well as three texts by Margaret Atwood: the short story The Age of Lead from the collection Wilderness Tips, her Oxford lecture “Concerning Franklin and his Gallant Crew”, published in the volume Strange Things. The Malevolant North in Canadian Literature, and the foreword to the reissue of O. Beatie and J. Geiger’s book Frozen in Time. The Fate of the Franklin Expedition. All of these tales of Franklin’s expedition reflect the vicissitudes of human fantasies about exploring unknown and menacing spaces – not just the mythical frozen North. They are also narratives about our relationship with Nature and all the fears and hopes associated with that relationship. agnieszka.izdebska@uni.lodz.pl Katedra Teorii Literatury, Wydział Filologiczny, Uniwersytet Łódzki Atwood Margaret (2000), Wiek ołowiu, w: M. Atwood, Dzikość serca, przeł. M. Zborowska, Poznań: Wydawnictwo ZYSK i S-ka, s. 126–140. Atwood Margaret (2004), Concerning Franklin and his Galant Crew, w: M. Atwood, Strange Things. The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature, London: Virago Press, s. 9–40. Atwood Margret (2021), Przedmowa do Beatie Owen, Geiger John (2021), Na zawsze w lodzie. Śladami tragicznej wyprawy Johna Franklina, przeł. A. Gomola, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, s. 21–29. Beatie Owen, Geiger John (2021), Na zawsze w lodzie. Śladami tragicznej wyprawy Johna Franklina, przeł. A. Gomola, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Berg Thomas Reinertsen (2018), Teatr świata. Mapy, które tworzą historię, przeł. M. Gołębiewska-Bijak, Kraków: Znak. Bondar Alanna F. (2016), Bodies on earth: exploring sites of the Canadian ecoGothic, w: Eco-Gothic, red. A. Smith i W. Hughes, Manchester and New ...

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