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The author of the article describes the ways the Arcadicvision of the world as well as its contradiction i.e. the dystopia were constructed in J.B. Zimorowic’s New Rutheniam bucolics. Both of these are described within literature tradition and in their historical context as well. It is shown how Zimorowic, in his dialogue with Vergil, Ovid and Polish writers, creates the vision of Ruthenia as an Arcadic and also pleasant place (locus amoenus).He further creates a vision of locus horridus – the burnt Arcady. The Ruthenian Arcady contains the vision of happiness sand the golden age in Ruthenia, the Arcadic landscape and the interfusion of the realistic world with the world of myths. Ruthenian Arcady of Zimorowic is destroyed by the war (1648), epidemic and the loss of the loved ones (his wife and brother) − the themes of war, death and vanishing. New Ruthenian Bucolics contain contradictory visions, namely, the poetic Arcady of family and Lviv and the Arcady of loss. This dystopia becomes a poetic comment to bloody events of the century and the personal grief of the author. The text shows how the author exploits the locus amoenus theme and how he changes it into the theme of locus horridus.
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The article has a documentative character. It includes a description of Jan Gawiński’s manuscript of Helicon – its outward look is discussed (its today’s state was confronted with the evidence concerning the primary shape of the book), and a full table of its contents is presented. The facts concerning the history of the manuscript are listed and its way through the history is briefly described. Damages to the manuscript are indicated and doubtful or unexplained questions are listed (among others, the dating of particular works, a division into sets of works within Helikon, the function of the book).
Terminus
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2011
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vol. 13
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issue 24
101-118
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The article describes the heraldic motifs of Lviv in poetry and historiographical works of J.B. Zimorowic. It’s goal is to explain by what means, why and what for they are used by the poet. The important factor is an allegorical tradition of the bucolic, which heraldry is a part of. The author quotes and discusses poems and inscriptions by Zimorowic, known only through his work Leopolis [...] obsessa, that was originally placed on the gates of the Lviv (including emblems). Zimorowic had a deep knowledge of the history and coat of arms of Lviv, as he was a great admirer of the city. During his lifetime he was recognized by readers and residents of Lviv as familiar and local poet. The references to various aspects of Lviv that appear in his works are part of an overall strategy (poetic as well as lifetime one) – by writing about his family and local matters he hoped to improve Lviv.
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In Willows Szymon Szymonowic used a popular in Polish Renaissance and Baroque literature theme of the metamorphosis of the body, making a reference to Ovid’s Metamorphoses and other literary sources. In his bucolic tale he connected metamorphic theme with meta-poetic reflection on fame and immortality of the poet. The key motif of nymphs losing their purity and the punishment of turning them into willows is accompanied by a warning against losing the spirit of poetry, which may result from writing for unworthy crowds. Willows is also an attempt to demonstrate the mythical provenance of Polish bucolic tales. The author included in the conventional world of pastoral scenery his very own, local space by the river of Pur and by doing so he introduced the motif of Polish folk culture into European literary tradition. The relation between the metamorphic motifs and the essence of the bucolic tale genre is therefore disclosed.
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The article is devoted to allegorical themes in Szymon Szymonowic’s Rocznica (Anniversary) in the context of the tradition of funeral idyll. Anniversary is a funeral idyll which contains biographical allegories and references to then current events. It commemorates Jan Zamoyski and his achievements in the field of culture. It was probably written memorialize the first anniversary of Zamoyski’s death (1606). Daphnis represents Zamoyski, whereas Thestylis - his wife Barbara, and the narrator is probably Szymonowic himself. The description of the burial is based on the framework of bucolic convention. There are other levels of the allegory, connected with the name of Daphnis as the supreme creator of poetry (Master Poet) and the sense of identifying a shepherd with a poet. Szymonowic consciously uses these and other biographical allegorical themes and intertextually refers to Vergil and Kochanowski. Anniversary is build according to the rules and convention of a funeral idyll as it contains many epicedial themes and levels of allegory. Thanks to the character of Dafnis-Zamoyski as well as many Polonization measures, it is strictly connected with the contemporary culture.
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The article is devoted to the motifs of mortality of Sielanki nowe ruskie (New Russia Bucolics) written by J. B. Zimorowic. The landscape of Ruthenian Arcadia is permeated with the vision of death and destruction of the body – the graves of his loved ones (wife, brother and children) are an important element there. The author reconstructs Zimorowic’s attitude to the tombs, and discusses the role of references to the transience and metapoetic motifs in the context of mourning bucolics (to preserve the memory of the dead). According to the author the abundance of mortality motifs in Zimorowic’s poetry is connected to the poet’s biography, his poetic strategy (writing about the beloved Lviv) and the effi ciency in the use of traditional bucolic tradition.
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