Współczesne teksty konwersyjne: wokół Elizabeth Costello

Barbara  Kaszowska-Wandor

Współczesne teksty konwersyjne: wokół Elizabeth Costello

Publication date: 2021

Wielogłos, 2021, Issue 2 (48) 2021: Teksty konwersyjne, pp. 61 - 86

https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.21.013.14341

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Contemporary Conversion Texts: Around Elizabeth Costello

The aim of the paper is to shed light on a specific current of conversion novels gaining popularity in the most recent literature, written at the beginning of the 21st century. Heretofore such texts used to be compared to the modern novel of ideas or philosophical fiction. However, such identifications are not adequate and precise enough for new texts, exemplified first of all by the novel Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee.

Instead, an attempt is made to reveal the links of this trend to the much older tradition of conversion texts stemming from Hebrew prophetic texts and Greek protreptic writings. Yet, the analyses carried out in the article focus on emphasizing a separate identity of the contemporary texts, which not only adhere to the conventional schemata of conversion texts, but first and foremost problematize the very phenomenon of conversion rhetoric.

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teksty konwersyjne, powieść konwersyjna, John Maxwell Coetzee, Olga Tokarczuk, Richard Powers, fikcja filozoficzna, protreptyk, retoryka konwersji; conversion texts, conversion novel, philosophical fiction, protreptic, rhetoric of conversion

conversion texts, conversion novel, John Maxwell Coetzee, Olga Tokarczuk, Richard Powers, philosophical fiction, protreptic, rhetoric of conversion

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Information: Wielogłos, 2021, Issue 2 (48) 2021: Teksty konwersyjne, pp. 61 - 86

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.21.013.14341

Article type: Original article

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Współczesne teksty konwersyjne: wokół Elizabeth Costello

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Contemporary Conversion Texts: Around Elizabeth Costello

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Barbara Kaszowska-Wandor

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4709-3729

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 2021

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