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SARMATIAN READER OF JOHN BARCLAY

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Hanusiewicz M.
Barok. Historia - Literatura - Sztuka (Baroque. History - Literature - Art)
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2007
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vol. 14
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issue 2(28)
11-33
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The article presents the problems pertaining to the Polish perception of Scottish, modern Latin writer John Barclay, its manifestations evident in the works by Lukasz Gornicki Jr., Lukasz Opalinski, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, anonymous texts (including little known prosaic translation of the 'Argenis'), although it focuses on the poem by Waclaw Potocki - 'Argenida', which is an adaptation of the already mentioned famous Barclay's novel of 'Argenis'. Under analysis are technique of paraphrase and a model of lecture objectivised in it, which testifies that the political issues included in the literary work of the Scotsman induced the Sarmatian poet to interpret the 'Argenida' as a novel pertaining to the 17th-century Poland, and for him became a means of expression of his own political views. According to the opinion of the authoress, more thorough examination of the reception of the Barclay work and identification of the circles of intellectuals interested in it, could reveal a relatively wide range of impact of his political thought among the Polish 'szlachta' and the role it could have played in the development of reformational ideas and attitudes.
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Love and Death. Some clichés of erotic imagination in Polish Baroque poetry

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Hanusiewicz M.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2007
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issue 1/2(103/4)
60-74
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This article presents cultural and literary-historical conditions for the topos of dying of love, or, Love as Death, as an erotic language cliché. As a starting point, it is indicated that despite any appearances, the formula is not hyperbolic in nature, as it refers one to the Ancient medical knowledge and the conviction - also developed in the Mediaeval and modern-age culture - that love is a 'sui generis' existential crisis, a sort of sickness attacking the lovers' souls and bodies. Also, subsequent stages of erotic initiation tended sometimes to be interpreted as moments of momentary parting of the soul and the body, moments of ecstasy that was, after all, essentially affiliated with death. The present article shows how such convictions concerning love inspired poetic images in Old-Polish verse, and how convictions like those penetrated into Polish poetry from foreign literatures, particularly owing to the Renaissance neo-Catullian current and Romanesque patterns.
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