Jak pogrzebać przeciwnika literackiego. Słowa klucze w tekstach romantyków o klasykach i ich sztuce
How to Bury a Literary Opponent. Keywords in Texts of Romantics on Classicists and their Art

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the dispute of Romantics with Classicists, however, it does notraise literary or ideological issues around which the discussion was held, but selectedelements of Romantic rhetoric. The analysis comprises the image of Classicists and Classicistart emerging from the texts of their critics. Special attention has been paid to the useof the word “dead” and related words. It seems that this word is a kind of a key – tracingits meanings, contexts of use and attributed to it value judgment allows to recreate mainpostulates of the new trend in art, as well as pay attention to creating the image of theopponent, which takes place in the texts discussed. Finally, it becomes the starting pointfor indicating elements of similar rhetoric in contemporary literary polemics.

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