Usable vs. abusable past. A reflection apropos of two (publication-politicization) dates in the history of U.S. literature
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2008
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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Using as examples two radically different classic texts, Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”
and Stephen Crane’s The red badge of courage, the article reflects on the scope (limits) of politicization
of literary discourse in the guise of direct contextualization and radical recontextualization.
In the analytical part, it is argued that both works belong properly to the realm of existential
facticity (Faktizität) rather than historiographic factuality (Tatsächlichkeit).
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 44 (2008), pp.549-564