Między retoryką a retorycznością powieści Teodora Parnickiego
Between the rhetoric and rhetoricality in Teodor Parnicki’s novels

Summary/Abstract: Review of Andrzej Juszczyk’s book Retoryka a poznanie. Powieściopisarstwo Teodora Parnickiego [‘Rhetoric vs. Cognition. Teodor Parnicki’s fiction writing’], (Cracow 2004). The author of this essay emphasises that Mr. Juszczyk’s book is the first attempt, among several existing studies, at a comprehensive discussion of Parnicki’s oeuvre. However, a clearly marked interpretative context is provided in the form of the Derridian concept of ‘signature’, and it is from this standpoint that Mr. Juszczyk reads the Parnicki output, thus reviewing the existing analyses of this author’s writings. As remarked by the reviewer, the book’s author refers to post-structuralist practices of intertextuality and theory of interpretation, as well as rhetoric as a classic and post-modernistic concept – that is, ‘rhetoricality’, as for the latter.

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