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Sposoby opracowania akuminu. Jakub Masen i jego cykl epigramatyczny „De Iuda proditore”

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Nowaszczuk J.

Colloquia Theologica Ottoniana

2013

issue 1

107-132

The theory which Jacob Masen presented in the work Ars nova argutiarum was well considered by him. The author wanted to present a diversity of possibilities which enabled building the argutia; he also attempted to arrange their multiplicity in clearly structured categories. He was interested in making reference to those acumens which occur in the grounds of the depicted reality as well as those which are based on the lingual devices. The whole of the lecture is strongly rooted in the philosophical analyses belonging to the old dialectics; it is especially based on Categories by Aristotle. Without a doubt, the lecture places itself in that scope of poetics which refers to a sophisticated poetry. The author leads the reader step by step, disclosing to him more new possibilities of creating the argutia. It is worth noticing that he generally makes references to the same contents. Within the scope of the presented epigrammatic cycle, especially to the Judas’ suicidal death. Skilfully infl uencing the fl ow of thoughts, controlling the occurring associations, using the game of words allowed the author to develop a rich epigrammatic collection. The works do not always present a proper level of artistry. They happen to be too simple in what they communicate. However, there are also such works which cause the intended surprise and joy of disclosing a thought conveyed in a veiled form by the poet. It is diffi - cult to determine whether Masen’s belief that actually every argutia can be assigned to the sources specifi ed by him is true. However, without a doubt he left an important tool for carrying literary research on this scope of Baroque literary works which used acumens. The question whether the theory presented by the Jesuit is an introduction into the poetic art or already a lecture on the sophisticated art still remains unanswered and a problem to solve. The epigrams concerned are not subjected to graphical forms. Apart from the fourth source, they generally lack solutions typical for the sophisticated poetry such as, for example, anagram. The presented epigrams do however contain something typical for the very essence of the sophisticated poetry. As a matter of fact, a juxtaposition of its vari ous forms shows that in each of them a line is assigned to a certain scheme, adopted by the poet. Generally, it is a graphical scheme, sometimes a scheme based on a game of letters or metrical devices. In case of Masen, it is also a certain scheme. However, this scheme is not related to the external layer of the work but it lies at its foundation. The point is that it concerns internal assumptions, the course of thinking and logical associations.

Epigrammata longiora sine vitio. Egzemplifikacje Jakuba Masena w cyklu Narodzenie Chrystusa

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Nowaszczuk J.

Roczniki Humanistyczne

2015

vol. 63

issue 3: Filologia Klasyczna

123-147

Niemiecki jezuita, Jakub Masen, w traktacie z dziedziny poetyki pod tytułem Ars nova argutiarum przedstawia obok treści teoretycznych również przygotowane przez siebie utwory ilustrujące omawiane koncepcje. W ósmym rozdziale dysertacji prezentuje, inaczej niż we wcześniejszej partii dzieła, utwory rozbudowane. Dzieli je na dwa cykle. Przedmiotem zainteresowania w obecnym artykule stały się wiersze dotyczące Bożego Narodzenia, zgromadzone w zbiorze pod tytułem De Christo nato. Spośród dziewięciu znajdujących się w tej grupie przetłumaczono i poddano analizie siedem, które – jakkolwiek autor uznał je za rozbudowane – nie odbiegają znacznie od zwyczajowo przyjętej wielkości utworów. Jak się okazało, potwierdzają one w wielu miejscach erudycję autora. Stosuje on barwne słownictwo; sięga po wyrazy niepospolite, pochodzące z mitologii, neologizmy poetyckie. Sięga ponadto po bardzo szeroki zestaw środków stylistycznych i figur. Korzystając z descriptio a partium numeratione, stosuje niezwykle obrazowy sposób przedstawienia. Punktem wyjścia jest często samo Dzieciątko Jezus, ukazane z perspektywy zwykłego obserwatora bądź świadomego dokonujących się rzeczy teologa. Kiedy indziej bierze za punkt wyjścia którąś z okoliczności zdarzeń (circumstantiae) i na jej kanwie buduje całe przedstawienie. Wszystkie wiersze zostały opracowane na bazie podanej w dysertacji teorii źródeł (fontes) i żył (venae). Mieszczą się one w obrębie poezji nie tyle nawet zretoryzowanej, co „zlogizowanej”. Przedstawione epigramaty nie posiadają szczególnie wyrazistych argucji, lecz jest to również zgodne z założeniem wstępnym przyjętym przez poetę. Wszystkie natomiast stanowią rodzaj itinerarium do zrozumienia barokowej poezji, która niejednokrotnie – ze względu na swoje zagmatwanie – wydaje się mało interesująca, a nawet bezwartościowa. Analiza kilku zaledwie utworów Masena przekonuje, że w jej obrębie należy posłużyć się swoistymi metodami literaturoznawczymi, które pozwolą odnaleźć całe spektrum myśli i rozwiązań „utajonych” w utworze przez poetę.

The German Jesuit, Jacob Masen, in his poetics treatise entitled Ars nova argutiarum, in addition to the theoretical content, he presents work he prepared himself illustrating the concepts under discussion. Unlike in the earlier part of the work, in Chapter 8 of his dissertation, he presents elaborate poems. He divides them into two cycles. This article is concerned with epigrams on Christmas, which appear in the collection entitled De Christo nato. Out of this group of nine, seven were translated and analysed, and although they were considered by the author as long, their length did not exceed the commonly accepted length for such type of work. As it turned out, the poems prove in many places the author’s erudition. He uses vivid vocabulary, extraordinary words and words originating from mythology and poetic neologisms. At the same time he introduces a wide range of stylistic devices and figures of speech. By the use of descriptio rerum a partium numeratione his topics are presented in an extremely vivid way. The starting point for his descriptions is often the Child Jesus himself depicted from the perspective of an ordinary observer or a conscious of things theologian. Some other time, the scholar starts from the circumstances of the event (circumstantiae) and on their basis the whole performance is built. All the poems are built based on the theory of sources (fontes) and veins (venae) expounded in the dissertation. These pieces of his work are not so much within the rhetorized poetry as within poetry guided by logic. They do not have particularly distinct argutias but this is also in line with the preliminary assumption made by the poet. On the other hand they all form a sort of itinerarium necessary to understand baroque poetry which often, due to its intricacy, appears to be not much interesting and even worthless. It is enough to analyse just a few epigrams by Masen to see that to find the whole range of ideas and solutions concealed by the poet in his poems unconventional literary methods should be used within his poetry.

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Sposoby opracowania akuminu. Jakub Masen i jego cykl epigramatyczny „De Iuda proditore”

Epigrammata longiora sine vitio. Egzemplifikacje Jakuba Masena w cyklu Narodzenie Chrystusa