Between the Oneiric House and Heterotopias: Polly Crosby’s The Illustrated Child through Bachelardian and Foucauldian Lenses
| dc.contributor.author | Potočňáková, Magdaléna | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-02-03T15:05:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-02-03T15:05:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2026-02-03T15:05:33Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present reflections on the treatment of place and space in the debut novel by a contemporary English author, Polly Crosby (b. 1980), The Illustrated Child (2020), are mostly inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s topoanalysis, mentioned in his Poetics of Space, which ascribes the house a crucial role in the life of a child. The combination of the youthful protagonist and the setting of the novel, Braër, an old solitary farmhouse amid the Suffolk countryside, provides fertile ground for the consideration of multiple phenomenological notions of this French philosopher, who has recently become of interest again to artists, architects and academics. In addition to the house itself, special attention is paid to his conception of the attic and of the casket in confrontation with how they are presented in the novel. This initial kinship of the setting with Bachelard’s writing is further reinforced by the significance ofwater in the narrative, which resonates well with his treatment of the imagination of matter, namely in his book Water and Dreams. In the latter part of this paper, the focus shifts to the novel’s specific secondary locations tracing the protagonist’s rare but significant journeys from the intimacy of home to the outside world. These destinations, among which the most important are the circus and the nursing home, recall and off er confrontation with the concept of heterotopias introduced by Michel Foucault in his seminal essay “Of Other Spaces”. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Úvahy o pojetí místa a prostoru v románovém debutu současné anglické autorky Polly Crosbyové (nar. 1980) The Illustrated Child (2020) vycházejí z topoanalýzy Gastona Bachelarda, zmiňované v jeho Poetice prostoru, která domu přisuzuje klíčovou roli v životě dítěte. Mladistvá protagonistka a dějiště románu, jímž je stará osamělá farma na Suffolkském venkově, to je kombinace, jež nabízí uplatnění hned několika Bachelardových fenomenologických pojmů. Kromě domu jako celku je zvláštní pozornost věnována prostoru podkroví a skříňky/casket/. Tato výchozí spřízněnost prostředí románu s Bachelardovým dílem je dále posílena významem vody v příběhu, který rezonuje s jeho pojetím imaginace hmoty, zejména v eseji Voda a sny. V druhé části tohoto článku se pozornost přesouvá ke konkrétním sekundárním lokalitám románu, kam směřují hrdinčiny výpravy z intimity domova. Tyto destinace,mezi nimiž jsou nejdůležitější cirkus a pečovatelský dům, nabízejí konfrontaci s konceptem heterotopií, který představil Michel Foucault ve svémprůkopnickém eseji „O jiných prostorech“. | cz |
| dc.format | 15 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.14712/23362685.5079 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1804-8722 | |
| dc.identifier.obd | 43947656 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | Potočňáková, Magdaléna 0009-0001-8467-7726 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11025/64597 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Prague Journal of English Studies | |
| dc.rights.access | A | |
| dc.subject | Polly Crosby | en |
| dc.subject | The Illustrated Child | en |
| dc.subject | Gaston Bachelard | en |
| dc.subject | topoanalysis | en |
| dc.subject | imagination | en |
| dc.subject | heterotopia | en |
| dc.subject | Polly Crosbyová | cz |
| dc.subject | Holka jako malovaná | cz |
| dc.subject | Gaston Bachelard | cz |
| dc.subject | topoanalýza | cz |
| dc.subject | imaginace | cz |
| dc.subject | heterotopie | cz |
| dc.title | Between the Oneiric House and Heterotopias: Polly Crosby’s The Illustrated Child through Bachelardian and Foucauldian Lenses | en |
| dc.title | Mezi snovovým domem a heterotopií: Román Polly Crosbyové Holka jako malovaná nahlížený Bachelardovskou a Foucauldovskou optikou | cz |
| dc.type | Článek v recenzovaném periodiku (Jost) | |
| dc.type | ČLÁNEK | |
| dc.type.status | Published Version | |
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