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With Noble, Folk and (Non-)Scholarly Pen... A review: P. Pirecki, Szlacheckim i ludowym piórem. Szkice o literaturze...

Summary/Abstract: Piotr Pirecki’s book is a collection of 8 articles which refer to the creativity of Piotr Ciekliński, Łukasz Opaliński and anonymous rouges from the turn of the 16th and 17th c. Its fairly eclectic form might be acceptable were it not for the numerous drawbacks which are observable already at the orthographic-punctuation level. The style of the papers is also no better, as it often hampers (and even makes it impossible) to grasp the author's intention. Most serious objections, though, pertain not to the form but to the content. Apart from simply commonplace statements we find either clearly naïve interpretations or unjustified overinterpretations. All that makes that oftentimes interesting ideas (referring either to the presence in rouge poetry such motifs as stimulants, anxiety of black humour) are presented in the way which leaves much to be desired. In sum, Pirecki's book is a mere collection of sketches but not scholarly analyses.

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