The text is a review of the Dariusz Śnieżko’s book Kompleksja literatury. Studia staropolskie (The Complexion of Literature. Old-Polish Studies) (TAiWPN UNIVERSITAS, Krakow 2019). The only serious doubt regards the sound of the title (readers might not know the word “complexion”). Kompleksja literatury is a fascinating book. For whom? – certainly students of Old-Polish literature (and it will be also inspiring for scholars of the next historical and literary epochs). What? – revealing the most important dimensions of Old-Polish literature. Why? – because in works published so far the scant use of source texts proves to be representative of the most general material remaining of Old-Polish literature in its intertwining of anthropology and dialectics of orality and literacy.
The article addresses the issue of one of the more intense and captivating European scientific disputes, likewise common to Poland, in the era of the seventeenth-century transformation of knowledge formation, which centered around the possibility of the existence of vacuum, and which culminated in 1647. The fundamental aim of the article comes down to an attempt to determine a position in the scientific-cognitive debate, from which the pro and anti-Polish and European representatives of The Republic of Letters (Respublica literaria) could voice their opinions. In the course of the analysis of the mid-seventeenth century scientific discourse, the reflections of Valeriano Magni, Torricelli, Jan Brożek, Wojciech Wijuk Kojałowicz, Blaise Pascal, Giovanni Elefantuzzi, Jacob Pierius, and Pierre Guiffart are subjected to close scrutiny. From the perspective of contextualism in the history of science, experiments demonstrating the existence of vacuum are perceived as anomalies that fall into the crisis of normal science, largely based on Aristotle’s physics. The conflict between the old and the new is not, however, presented as a battle of progression with epigonism, but merely as a contest between opposing individual views and the concept of science, which before the formation of the new paradigm was accompanied by ambiguous verification criteria.
Celem artykułu jest filologiczna analiza miłosnych klątw zawartych w polskich tekstach literackich z XVII w. inspirowana teorią aktów mowy (w tym performatywów i konstatacji) Johna L. Austina oraz pracami z zakresu klątwy ludowej Anny Engelking. Przedmiotem badań są wypowiedzi: Banialuki (romans baśniowy Historyja ucieszna o królewnie Banialuce Hieronima Morsztyna – 1650), Cyceryny (zbiór pieśni Roksolanki Szymona Zimorowica – 1654) oraz Pani (sielanka Odczary na Simonidesowe „Czary” Jana Gawińskiego – połowa XVII w.). Klątwy literackie są rozpatrywane zarówno w kontekście etnolingwistycznej struktury (obiekt – sprawca – wykonawca), sprawczej funkcji wypowiedzi, jak i imperatywów, składni, symboliki, etymologii.
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The aim of the article is to undertake philological analysis of love curses described in Polish literary texts from the 17th century. The analysis was inspired by the theory of speech acts (including performatives and constatives) by John L. Austin and works on the folk curse by Anna Engelking. The research centred on the following statements by: Banialuka (Historyja ucieszna o królewnie Banialuce [A Diverting Story about the Virtuous Princess Banialuka], fairy-tale romance by Hieronim Morsztyn – 1650), Cyceryna (Roksolanki [Ruthenian Girls], collection of songs by Szymon Zimorowic – 1654) and Pani (Odczary na Simonidesowe “Czary” idyll by Jan Gawinski – mid. 17th century). Literary curses are considered both in the context of the ethnolinguistic structure (object – perpetrator – performer) and the causative function of an utterance, as well as imperatives, syntax, symbolism and etymology.
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