Manipulacje przestrzenią świata przedstawionego jako instrumentarium poetyki grozy w ilustrowanej literaturze dla dzieci (przypadki Tam, gdzie żyją dzikie stwory Maurice’a Sendaka i Czarnej książki Rity Kaczmarskiej)

The article discusses two cases of using the technique of expanding or shrinking the narrative settingof a literary work in order to intensify reader’s emotions of unease and uncertainty through referencesto agoraphobic or claustrophobic fears. The analysis of selected themes from works dedicated toyoung readers – Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and The Black Book by Rita Kaczmarska – shows how the language text and illustrations co-create stories for children that draw from horror motifs. The authors, seemingly frightening the readers with monsters or darkness, actuallyevoke additional fears related to space, thus making transformations of the landscape backgroundof both plots an essential tool of the poetics of horror

Narrative · Poetics · Poetry · Central European Literary Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies · Urban Development and Cultural Heritage