O dywersyfikacji pojęć przestrzennych – zyski i straty

Abstract

The article considers the consequences of spatial turn in literary studies. This turn did not limit itself merely to the creation of a new methodology and research tools. Instead it covered a much wider scope, as it allowed conclusions to be drawn not only on cultural discourse but also transformation within other areas of research as politics, patterns of common memory and ideology, as well as a change in the processes of establishing the rules of social life. The awareness of the extent to which space determines the conditions of existence was directly linked to the perception of human activity as inherently “located”. The growing interest into the spatial dimension of individual and collective experience provides an insight into the issue from a broader perspective. At the same time the topographical turn contributed to the reformulation of other basic terms such as language, subject, culture, literary and artistic practice, and finally, the research and the researcher’s position in its own right.