Weronika Kostecka
Wielogłos, Numer 1 (47) 2021, 2021, s. 123 - 149
https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.21.006.13581What is Multicultural Children’s and Young Adult Literature and How to Study it? Methodological Proposals from a Literary Studies Perspective in the Polish Context
The aim of the article is to present several methodological proposals based on literary studies in reference to Polish multicultural literature for young readers. The author discusses foreign theoretical concepts regarding multicultural works and their components and explains the key terminology. She discusses difficulties that arise when trying to apply these concepts and terms in research on Polish multicultural children’s and young adult literature and presents her own definition of this phenomenon. Finally, the author proposes four methods for researching this type of literary works.
Weronika Kostecka
Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Numer 4 (30), 2016, s. 385 - 403
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.16.031.6492Two faces of “Briar Rose”. The fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty in psychoanalytical interpretation by Stefanie Bornstein
The paper shows the scientific and private life of Stefanie Bornstein, a forgotten Freudian of Polish descent, the author of, among others, a psychoanalytical study on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty published in 1933 in “Imago”. It is a precursory text in regards to the approach proposed forty years later by Bruno Bettelheim in the famous monograph The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. The comparative analysis shows that Bornstein’s essay Das Märchen vom Dornröschen in psychoanalytischer Darstellung was for Bettelheim without a doubt, despite being only barely acknowledged, a source of inspiration; it also proves that the author, writing and publishing in the American reality of the 70s, in many regards “tamed” the much braver, from today standpoint almost feminist interpretation proposed by his predecessor.