Montaigne, czyli o wielkości małych słów

• Authors: Wojciech Ryczek

Title variants

EN

Montaigne, or On Grandeur of Little Words

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The main aim of this paper is to propose a new Polish translation one of the well-known Michel de Montaigne’s essays, De la vanité des paroles (On the Vanity of Words, I 51). For the humanist, rhetoric delimited only to elocution responsible for linguistic adornments becomes the subject for critical investigation. In a short introduction to the essay, the author takes into consideration the rhetoric of Montaigne’s discourse on ‘the vanity of words’ with a particular attention to two rhetorical forms: amplification and figuration. Raising questions about lack of temperance in amplifying and adorning words with tropes and figures, the humanist attempted to revalorize linguistic and stylistic simplicity. Therefore, to find the proper words for various things, emotions and experiences are the central concern of an essay, a new literary genre invented by Montaigne.

Keywords

EN

Montaigne; rhetoric; amplification; elocution; figuration; tropes; figures

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 35
• Pages: 442-454

Dates

published

2019-11-05

Contributors

author

Wojciech Ryczek

• Wydział Polonistyki, Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pspsl.2019.35.21