TY - JOUR N2 - The problem of Hungarian identity is one of the themes of Stanisław Vincenz’s essays written at the time of the Second World War. Inspired by Wincenty Pol’s thinking about relationship between the sense of geographical place and literature, he decided to explore the ‘general impact of landscape’ and in particular identify the place that would convey the essence of ‘Hungarianness’. The article looks at various aspects of this problem in Vincenz’s essay ‘Landscape – the background of history’ in the context of his other essays in which the idea of place is discussed. In effect, the article lays down a theoretical formula of indeterminate spots in modern literature. The indeterminate spot possesses six constitutive features: changeability and transmutability; fuzzy borders; shifty positioning between utopia and atopia; great semantic potential; the experience of place is involved in irreducible inconsistencies but rests on a solid ideological foundation. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/106979/PDF/RL%204-18%203-Niewiadomski.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/106979 PY - 2018 IS - No 4 (349) EP - 408 DO - 10.24425/122713 KW - Polish literature of the 20th century KW - geopoetics KW - topographical verse KW - landscape and national identity KW - genius loci KW - indeterminate spots KW - Hungarian identity KW - Bukovina KW - Stanisław Vincenz (1888–1971) A1 - Niewiadomski, Andrzej PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka PB - Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki DA - 2018.12.18 T1 - Unmarked sites and indeterminate spots: The problem of defining territorial ‘essences’ SP - 391 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/106979 T2 - Ruch Literacki ER -