Scabs: A Literary-Dermatological Study
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31261/Rana.2021.4.08Keywords:
wound, disgust, Paulina Jóźwik, a story of maturation, Polish women’s literatureAbstract
This essay is devoted to the titular “scabs” – wounds usually associated with childhood, the effects of minor injuries, mainly to the knees and elbows, sustained while playing. These are unique wounds, associated more
with joy than with pain. In Polish, “scab” [strupek] is a diminutive form of the word “corpse” [trup], which is awe-inspiring and disgusting. Such a combination of the delicacy of grammatical diminutive with the aesthetics of deadly decay is surprising. That is why this word is used carefully in Polish, and it is an act of courage to place it in a title of a novel. This risk was taken by Paulina Jóźwik in her prose debut (2019), a story about the maturation of a young woman, where the symbolism of the titular Scabs (Strupki) reflects the bitter-sweet experience of the family home.
References
Brückner A.: Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego. Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa 1985.
Caillois R.: Żywioł i ład. Tłum. A Tatarkiewicz. Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warszawa 1973.
Gogola W.: Po trochu. Książkowe Klimaty, Kraków 2017.
Grzegorzewska W.: Guguły. Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec 2014.
Jóźwik P.: Strupki. Znak Litera Nova, Kraków 2019.
Kotliński A., Nawarecki A.: Dialog troisty. Colloquia o Juliuszu Słowackim. Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, Warszawa 2019.
Kristeva J.: Potęga obrzydzenia. Esej o wstręcie. Tłum. M. Falski. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2008.
Kristeva J.: Ujęcie wstrętu. W: Eadem: Potęga obrzydzenia. Esej o wstręcie. Tłum. M. Falski. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2008, s. 7–35.
Linde S.B.: Słownik języka polskiego. T. 5. Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Lwów 1859.
[Opinie internautów]. https://lubimyczytac.pl › ksiazka › strupki [dostęp: 10.04.2021].
Yagyu Gen-ichiro: Strupek. [Przekł. K. Radomska-Nishii]. Tako, Toruń 2014.
Zielińska A.: Kijanki i kretowiska. Wydawnictwo W.A.B. – Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, Warszawa 2017.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
The Copyright Owners of the submitted texts grant the Reader the right to use the pdf documents under the provisions of the Creative Commons 4.0 International License: Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA). The user can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose.
1. License
The University of Silesia Press provides immediate open access to journal’s content under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Authors who publish with this journal retain all copyrights and agree to the terms of the above-mentioned CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
2. Author’s Warranties
The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.
If the article contains illustrative material (drawings, photos, graphs, maps), the author declares that the said works are of his authorship, they do not infringe the rights of the third party (including personal rights, i.a. the authorization to reproduce physical likeness) and the author holds exclusive proprietary copyrights. The author publishes the above works as part of the article under the licence "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International".
ATTENTION! When the legal situation of the illustrative material has not been determined and the necessary consent has not been granted by the proprietary copyrights holders, the submitted material will not be accepted for editorial process. At the same time the author takes full responsibility for providing false data (this also regards covering the costs incurred by the University of Silesia Press and financial claims of the third party).
3. User Rights
Under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, the users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit the contribution) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) the article for any purpose, provided they attribute the contribution in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
4. Co-Authorship
If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the signatory of this form warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this agreement.
I hereby declare that in the event of withdrawal of the text from the publishing process or submitting it to another publisher without agreement from the editorial office, I agree to cover all costs incurred by the University of Silesia in connection with my application.
