Waga emocji. Narracje afektywne w literaturze dla dzieci i młodzieży

In the first part, the authors of the paper investigate the issue of so-called “affective turn” in contemporary literary studies, which they call a form of collective reaction to chosen problems of social life and its manifestation in literature. The researchers emphasise that affectivity has been present in litera ture for children and young adults for a long time. It manifests itself through the presence of factors responsible for the structure and reception of a literary work. Those are the elements which influence the emotional world of a young reader. The following parts of the paper concentrate on the analyses of two vol umes of stories: Pralnia pierza. Opowiadania o tym, co ważne (2018) by Dorota Combrzyńska-Nogala and Gorzka czekolada i inne opowiadania o ważnych sprawach (2016), whose authors are well-known writers of Polish literature for children. In the collection Pralnia pierza… the authors identify an example of implicating affective narration, which exposes deduction, resulting, as well as mutually interweaving psychosocial and cultural-spatial phenomena. On the contrary, the anthology Gorzka czekolada… has been interpreted by the au thors as a type of explicating affective narration, with the majority of (auto)de fining and explanatory-exemplifying elements.