'Metabasis': kilka słów o apostrofie

• Authors: Ryczek Wojciech

Title variants

EN

Metabasis: a Few Words about Apostrophe

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The main aim of the paper is to make some remarks on apostrophe (aversio), its figurative nature and discursive functions. The figure of rhetorical address to some person other than judge has many affinities with other linguistic or stylistic devices, for instance exclamation, a rhetorical question, animation, personification, aposiopesis, prosopopoeia. As a rhetorical aversion it remains always involved in a communicative context. Using many modes of figuration, apostrophe conveniently gives the poet an opportunity to modulate his poetic voice. Then, it seems to be a mark of invested passion or sublime poetry. The considerations on apostrophe are concentrated on three issues: forms and meanings of this figure in rhetorical tradition (Quintilian, Górski, Keckermann, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, Euzebiusz Słowacki), idea of apostrophe as a central figure of post-Enlightenment poetry (Jonathan Culler), and its role in a poetic invocation (for example of Jan Kochanowski’s Latin ode to Henryk Walezy and stanza addressed to ‘Heavenly Muse’ in Torquato Tasso and Piotr Kochanowski).

Keywords

PL

apostrofa; figury retoryczne; język figuratywny; Jonathan Culler; Jan Kochanowski; Piotr Kochanowski

EN

apostrophe; rhetorical figures; figurative language; Jonathan Culler; Jan Kochanowski; Piotr Kochanowski

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski / Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Napis. Pismo poświęcone literaturze okolicznościowej i użytkowej
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 22: Warunkiem trwałości jest przemiana. Parafrazy, kontynuacje i aluzje literackie
• Pages: 27-51

Contributors

author

Ryczek Wojciech

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków