Renaty Piątkowskiej opowiadania z ramą

Abstract

Renata Piątkowska is an author of three volumes of stories for preschool children. The series is subject to mechanisms of repetitiveness among which characteristic is the presence of a framework as an implicit formula that constitutes permanent signals of the beginning and ending of narration. Similarly, the creation of reality, largely based on stereotypes, creates a permanent, recognizable model of the world. Sequences of events and scenes adopt a schematic dimension; have a scripting character which corresponds with children’s cognitive structures responsible for the organization of knowledge about the world. Children’s point of view becomes not only a narrative category (the identity of the boy hero-narrator) but an anthropological category as well. Due to his doubleness (a child and a reading intermediary) the addressee is used for the recognition (secondary in the case of adults) and (re)description of childhood and its characteristic stages and features. The framework works in the stories as a construction stabilizer, which nonetheless allows systematic and innovative diversification of the content.