Dyskursywne konstruowanie podmiotu wiedzącego w wybranych relacjach z podroży

Anna Horolets

Abstract

The article is devoted to travel writing subject, the discursive means of rendering them knowledgeable and the specific features of the knowledge in question. Using the selected pieces of travel writing about Russia and other former Soviet Union countries by Mariusz Wilk and Jacek Hugo-Bader as empirical material, the author demonstrates both the differences between the knowledgeable subjects of these two writers (e.g. Enlightenment subject/Romanticism subject) and the shared features, which probably are definitive for travel writing subject as such (e.g. symbolic domination over the readers, sexism). Engaging the categories of genre and intertextuality in the analysis, the author aims at situating the knowledge, to which the travel writing subject refers, in the context of power relations not only between the depicted world and the narrator but also between the narrator and the reader.