Literary paremic loci in Salman Rushdie’s novels

• Authors: Grzegorz Szpila
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The paper deals with the identification of proverbs in a literary text, which is believed to be the initial stage in the analysis of paremias in literary context and part and parcel of any paremiostylitic analysis. Proverbs manifest themselves in what the author calls a paremic locus. Paremias are present in a text on the formal level, where a particular proverb is signalled by its structure, either canonical or modified. Proverbs can be identified as well on the semantic plane, although in this case their presence is impossible to ascertain in objective terms. The author analyses the ten novels by Salman Rushdie, which all provide ample evidence of paremic loci.

Keywords

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proverbs; paremiostylistics; paremic loci; novels; Salman Rushdie

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 128

Dates

published

2011

online

2015-03-05

Contributors

author

Grzegorz Szpila