The (Non-)topos of the Holocaust in <i>Opowieści zasłyszane</i>

Authors

  • Katarzyna Kuczyńska‑Koschany Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2016.02.05

Abstract

The (Non‑)topos of the Holocaust in Opowieści zasłyszane

The article is a twofold attempt: at re‑reading the category of a topos after the Shoah and at interpreting the particular record of the oral history in the context of the liminal metamorphoses the notion of the topoi – crucial in European culture and literature – has undergone. In the first part of the text, the author recapitulates the studies on the aforementioned category – from Aristoteles to the twentieth century scholars (Curtius, Lausberg, Ziomek, Abramowska, Panas); in the second part, she tries to apply it in interpretative practice.

Key words: topoi, oral history, rhetoric, Majdanek, gulag, non‑place

Published

2016-12-29

How to Cite

Kuczyńska‑Koschany, K. (2016). The (Non-)topos of the Holocaust in <i>Opowieści zasłyszane</i>. Narracje O Zagładzie [Narrations of the Shoah], (2), 50–62. https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2016.02.05