Between the Oneiric House and Heterotopias: Polly Crosby’s The Illustrated Child through Bachelardian and Foucauldian Lenses

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23362685.5079" target="_blank" >10.14712/23362685.5079</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Between the Oneiric House and Heterotopias: Polly Crosby’s The Illustrated Child through Bachelardian and Foucauldian Lenses

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The present reflections on the treatment of place and space in the debut novel by a contemporary English author, Polly Crosby (b. 1980), The Illustrated Child (2020), are mostly inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s topoanalysis, mentioned in his Poetics of Space, which ascribes the house a crucial role in the life of a child. The combination of the youthful protagonist and the setting of the novel, Braër, an old solitary farmhouse amid the Suffolk countryside, provides fertile ground for the consideration of multiple phenomenological notions of this French philosopher, who has recently become of interest again to artists, architects and academics. In addition to the house itself, special attention is paid to his conception of the attic and of the casket in confrontation with how they are presented in the novel. This initial kinship of the setting with Bachelard’s writing is further reinforced by the significance ofwater in the narrative, which resonates well with his treatment of the imagination of matter, namely in his book Water and Dreams. In the latter part of this paper, the focus shifts to the novel’s specific secondary locations tracing the protagonist’s rare but significant journeys from the intimacy of home to the outside world. These destinations, among which the most important are the circus and the nursing home, recall and off er confrontation with the concept of heterotopias introduced by Michel Foucault in his seminal essay “Of Other Spaces”.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Between the Oneiric House and Heterotopias: Polly Crosby’s The Illustrated Child through Bachelardian and Foucauldian Lenses

Popis výsledku anglicky

The present reflections on the treatment of place and space in the debut novel by a contemporary English author, Polly Crosby (b. 1980), The Illustrated Child (2020), are mostly inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s topoanalysis, mentioned in his Poetics of Space, which ascribes the house a crucial role in the life of a child. The combination of the youthful protagonist and the setting of the novel, Braër, an old solitary farmhouse amid the Suffolk countryside, provides fertile ground for the consideration of multiple phenomenological notions of this French philosopher, who has recently become of interest again to artists, architects and academics. In addition to the house itself, special attention is paid to his conception of the attic and of the casket in confrontation with how they are presented in the novel. This initial kinship of the setting with Bachelard’s writing is further reinforced by the significance ofwater in the narrative, which resonates well with his treatment of the imagination of matter, namely in his book Water and Dreams. In the latter part of this paper, the focus shifts to the novel’s specific secondary locations tracing the protagonist’s rare but significant journeys from the intimacy of home to the outside world. These destinations, among which the most important are the circus and the nursing home, recall and off er confrontation with the concept of heterotopias introduced by Michel Foucault in his seminal essay “Of Other Spaces”.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60205 - Literary theory

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Prague Journal of English Studies

ISSN

1804-8722

e-ISSN

2336-2685

Svazek periodika

14

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

73-87

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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