Published : 2025-08-05

Scenarios of Human Behaviour in Emilia Dziubak and Madlena Szeliga’s Horror

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The book Horror, written by Madlena Szeliga and illustrated by Emilia Dziubak, presents the emotions and dramatic experiences of an inner life (typically associated with humans) from a non-human perspective. The narrative here is surprising and often shocking: it presents what we normally see as a stable anthropocentric worldview (where humans are “good beings that take care of ‘their own’ human order of things”) from a striking perspective. In doing so, the book explores people’s relationship with the world of plants. This contribution reconstructs the portrayal of that relationship in Dziubak and Szeliga’s prose by means of lexico-semantic analysis, focusing on the narrative aspects of the linguistic worldview. As the outset, an assumption is made that the scenarios of human behaviour entrenched in language and culture can be substantially reinterpreted if perceived and experienced by a conceptualizer that challenges the apparently “obvious”, language-entrenched logic, causal relationships, and values of everyday rationality.

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linguistic worldview, textual worldview, narrative semantics, scenarios of human behaviour, humor competence, intimate writing



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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