Mutacje gatunkowe czy przekroczenie konwencji – wokół zagadnień prozy wiejskich przestrzeni

Abstract

The main aim of the article is the consideration of problems connected with “the prose of rural spaces” (rural spaces’ prose) which is understood as an important theoretical term, used in critical texts in relation to novels, mainly written at the beginning of 21th century. Presented with examples from contemporary Polish literature (the popular and awarded novels written by e.g. Paweł Potoroczyn, Maciej Płaza, Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Weronika Gogola) rural spaces’ prose appears to be not entirely precise, but nevertheless a useful category. This category describes the authors’ literary explorations, as well as the methodological efforts of researchers to characterize this new cultural phenomena.