Browsing by Author "Maciulewicz, Joanna"
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Item In the space between history and fiction - the role of Walter Scott’s fictional prefaces(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2002) Maciulewicz, JoannaItem Knight-errantry of the twentieth century in Graham Greene’s "Monsignor Quixote"(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2005) Maciulewicz, JoannaItem Scott’s hi/story telling - a postmodern reading of "Kenilworth"(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2000) Maciulewicz, JoannaItem Sir Walter Scott’s licentia historica – the historical novel as a displaced romance(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2004) Maciulewicz, JoannaItem The pleasure of the eighteenth-century texts: The conflation of literary and critical discourse in the early novelistic tradition(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2009) Maciulewicz, JoannaOne of the prominent characteristics of contemporary literature is its assimilation to critical discourse. The self-reflexivity in literature, which transforms literary texts into acts of criticism, is paralleled by theory’s tendency to encroach on the literary domain. One of the findings of the poststructuralist literary theory is that descriptions of reading experience elude scientific language and are more aptly conveyed by metaphors. (A good example is Roland Barthes’ The pleasure of the text.) The conflation of literary and critical discourse is not, however, peculiar to postmodernity only. The same phenomenon is observable in the eighteenth-century writings. It turns out that the self-reflexivity evident at the times of the proclaimed “death of the novel” is manifest also in the times of its birth. The aim of my paper is to analyse the metafictional reflection on readerly pleasure incorporated in early novelistic texts.Item The protean nature of Irish tale: The generic analysis of Maria Edgeworth’s "Ennui"(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2007) Maciulewicz, JoannaThe aim of the article is to demonstrate the derivative nature of Irish tale, a short-lived genre which thrived in the Romantic period. The analysis is based on Maria Edgeworth Ennui (1809), which skillfully and self-consciously combines various kinds of factual discourse (e.g. memoirs, autobiographies, travelogues) with diverse fictional modes (romance, melodrama) with a view to expose the shallowness of English stereotypes about Ireland as well as to call for the modernization of Ireland through the professionalisation of its gentry.Item The transformations of the novelistic canon: The comparison of Daniel Defoe’s and Penelope Aubin’s dedication to truth and virtue(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2014) Maciulewicz, JoannaThe aim of the article is to discuss the evolution of the concept of the literary canon in the context of eighteenth-century fiction. The concept of the literary canon has been traditionally associated with timeless, universal values which transcend the ideological conditions of the period in which texts are created. In present criticism, which is shaped by cultural studies, the association of a canon with universality has been challenged. A canon has been recognised by cultural critics as an instrument of an ideological power struggle which presents the values of dominant social groups as universal. The analysis of novels written by Penelope Aubin and Daniel Defoe at the beginning of the eighteenth century demonstrates that the study of literature only from an ideological viewpoint does not account for the workings of the literary canon. Both Aubin and Defoe employ the same formula of fiction, adventure story with a moral commentary, but while Defoe's fiction has survived in literary histories, Aubin's stories, after their initial success, fell into oblivion and have been rediscovered only recently by feminist critics. The varying fates of Aubin's and Defoe's fiction point to the insufficiency of the definition of canon which binds literary value too strongly with ideology.