Sermons of Reverend Janusz Stanisław Pasierb have a distinct literary character. This may be due to the fact that the preacher was both a poet and essayist. The first part of the paper contains a methodological reflection on literariness, with particular emphasis on the location of the sermon as a specific genre of expression in relation to other forms of literary expression. In the further part of the text, the style and composition of sermons of Reverend Pasierb and their relationship with the poetry of this author are examined. Also, homilies from the funerals of art people are presented – in these works Pasierb contained a particularly large literary component. Reverend Pasierb is fully aware of what the art of word is, including the preacher’s word. He works towards a greater linguistic reflection, drawing artistic attention to the style of preaching. His preaching, with a metaphysical depth and clearly eschatological perspective, and at the same time adding value to worldliness, often tends to an essay and meditation. We are dealing with the individualization of a preacher’s message and a partial remodelling of a typical preacher’s formula.
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Sermons of Reverend Janusz Stanisław Pasierb have a distinct literary character. This may be due to the fact that the preacher was both a poet and essayist. The first part of the paper contains a methodological reflection on literariness, with particular emphasis on the location of the sermon as a specific genre of expression in relation to other forms of literary expression. In the further part of the text, the style and composition of sermons of Reverend Pasierb and their relationship with the poetry of this author are examined. Also, homilies from the funerals of art people are presented – in these works Pasierb contained a particularly large literary component. Reverend Pasierb is fully aware of what the art of word is, including the preacher’s word. He works towards a greater linguistic reflection, drawing artistic attention to the style of preaching. His preaching, with a metaphysical depth and clearly eschatological perspective, and at the same time adding value to worldliness, often tends to an essay and meditation. We are dealing with the individualization of a preacher’s message and a partial remodelling of a typical preacher’s formula.
The article presents the world of attitudes and values of Janusz Stanisław Pasierb (1929-1993), future philosopher, art historian and poet, who during childhood and adolescence emerged within the space of his family home. This young man in this period acquired a peculiar, internal order, with help of his relatives and closest friends he „worked out” a set of ideas that became both a tool used to „control” the desintegration of the war in 1939-1945, and something that defined his identity. Final turning point of this very important stage in the life the author of Czas otwarty was the year 1947, when he joined the Seminary in Pelplin. Stay in the seminar caused problematic aspects of subjectivity, previously mentioned by the young artist, to obtain a remarkable dynamism that abstracts from the elements of „externality”, characteristic for the occupation period, as well as the great depth of meanings.
The article addresses selected issues about Polish poetry after 1989. The author distinguishes between the poetry of ‘a literary movement’ and the poetry fulfilling the criteria of a veritable work of art. She critically com - ments on the selected works by well-known authors who function as part of an unspoken canon; she portrays the poetry of Paweł Marcinkiewicz as one of the most attractive proposals coming from the younger generation, whereas from among the classics she picks texts by Czesław Miłosz and Janusz St. Pasierb.
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