The King’s Death and Theodora’s Shawl

• Main Author: Arleta Galant
• Format: Article
• Language: Polish
• Published: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne WFPiK UAM; Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk 2013-01-01
• Series: Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
• Subjects: body; violence; dignity; Zofia Nałkowska’s writing project.
• Online Access: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/2344
• ISSN: 1233-8680; 2450-4947

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;">The author interprets two novels by Zofia Nałkowska — <em>Węzły życia </em>[The Bonds of Life] and <em>Niecierpliwi </em>[The Impatient]. In a hermeneutic-feminist analysis of selected figures and motifs, the article presents new meanings of concepts that are crucial for the understanding of anthropology of corporeality in Nałkowska’s writing project. Among the focal points of the discussion there are the dignity of “lay bodies,” as well as “male” and “female” fantasies of violence.</span></span></p>