“Critical” and Empathetic Realism: Modernist Writing Projects (of Prus and Others)

Tomasz Sobieraj
a b s t r a c t
The problem of representing the world through literature has played a significant role in the history of the modern novel, attracting attention of authors, theorists and literary critics.
It is closely connected to aesthetic-literary, poetological, and normative issues; it also encompasses the philosophy of literature, relating to – at least in an implicative way – epistemological strategies and ontological assumptions of a given historical-cultural period1.
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