Rej Górnickiego. Filologiczne śledztwo w sprawie skatologicznych „trefności”

• Authors: Paweł Stępień

Title variants

EN

Rej as perceived by Górnicki. Philological investigation on scatological jesting

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The second book of The Polish Courtier, Łukasz Górnicki’s paraphrase of Castiglione’s The Book of The Courtier, contains a study of courtly jesting. This is where, among other jests, two scatological jokes attributed to Mikołaj Rej appear. Most scholars considered them as evidence of a coarse sense of humour, incompatible with courtly pleasantry. And yet Górnicki treated Rej’s witticisms as superb examples of sophisticated jesting. The article presents an analysis of these jokes in the context of Górnicki’s discourse on courtly wit, Castiglione’s The Book of The Courtier, Cicero’s De oratore, Renaissance jests and old Polish satirical poetry. The analysis reveals complexity, unobvious meanings and function of scatological witticisms attributed to Rej and allows to understand reasons for the high regard in which Górnicki held them.

Keywords

PL

Mikołaj Rej; Łukasz Górnicki; Baldesar Castiglione; facecje; kultura dworska

EN

Mikołaj Rej; Łukasz Górnicki; Baldesar Castiglione; jests; court culture

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 7(10)
• Pages: 33-51

Dates

published

2017-06-01

Contributors

author

Paweł Stępień

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

Identifiers

DOI

10.32798/pflit.79