Kołczan miłości, czyli o metamorfozach starej alegorii

• Authors: Elwira Buszewicz

Title variants

EN

The quiver of love or on transformations of an old allegory

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to show how the allegory of an arrow piercing the heart, as an element of erotic discourse, functioned in early-modern Polish poetry (both secular and religious). The author analyses two poems: a vernacular poem by Jan Kochanowski, from his collection of Songs (I 4), published in 1585 in Krakow, and its Latin paraphrase written in 17th century by Elisaeus a Sancta Maria OCD, who was the author of a verse collection De vita, gestis ac miraculis sanctae matris nostrae Theresiae a Iesu, Seraphicae virginis Lyricorum libri IV, epodon liber unus duoque epigrammatum, published in 1650 in Krakow as well. Elisaeus calls his paraphrase a “palinody” because of its polemic tendencies. The analysis of Kochanowski’s song focuses on finding the dominant elements of each stanza for the purpose of demonstrating that the Carmelite poet saved their order, but presented them in a completely different dimension, in a new ideological context, opening a metaphysical perspective.

Keywords

PL

miłość świecka i święta; alegorie miłości; Jan Kochanowski; Elizeusz od św. Maryi; poezja religijna

EN

secular and sacred love; allegories of love; Jan Kochanowski; Elisaeus a Sancta Maria; religious poetry

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 6(9)
• Pages: 211-222

Dates

published

2016-06-01

Contributors

author

Elwira Buszewicz

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński