@ARTICLE{Tomczok_Marta_“Nachleben”_2019,
 author={Tomczok, Marta},
 number={No 4 (355)},
 journal={Ruch Literacki},
 pages={389-401},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2019},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka},
 publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki},
 abstract={This article is built on the premise that the topos has become a potent unit of cultural memory, an image that stores a wealth of often vague, buried or forgotten ideas. Its contents, like those of literature, tend to become extraordinarily condensed and confl ated; in consequence, some topoi (in particular the Holocaust topos) defy conventional tools of understanding and analysis. A solution to this problem can be found in an approach which broadens the scope of the sources of the Holocaust to include pop culture; gives up the rigid classifi cation of topoi, based on ‘hard’, documentary evidence; and, draws on a conceptual frame that connects the topos with the mechanisms of remembrance. A practical application of this approach is offered here in a series of readings of selected passages from Marcin Pilis’s novel The Meadow of the Dead (Łąka umarłych), Zygmunt Miłoszewski’s crime story A Grain of Truth (Ziarno prawdy), Marcin Wolski’s alternate history novel Wallenrod, Justyna Wydra’s war romance The SS-man and a Jewess (Esesman i Żydówka), Krzysztof Zajas’s thriller Oszpicyn [local Yiddish: Auschwitz] as well as some poems by Jacek Podsiadło from his volume The Breguet Overcoil (Włos Bregueta).},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={“Nachleben” and the Holocaust topos},
 URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/113546/PDF/RL%204-19%201-Tomczok.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/rl.2019.130053},
 keywords={Literary and cultural criticism, topos, remembrance, Aby Warburg’s "Nachleben", the Holocaust topos, Contemporary Polish literature, popular fiction, pop culture},
}