Gatunki literackie w procesie odzyskania intencji komunikacyjnej. Doba wczesnonowożytna
Literary Genres in the Process of Regaining their Communicative Intention: The Early Modern Era

Summary/Abstract: According to David Olson’s The World on Paper, in an oral exchange of information the communicative intention is actualized through non-verbal means and situational contexts; in mature literacy this intention begins to be regained through various formal procedures (graphic design, style, composition, plot elements, etc.). Prejs examines and builds on Olson’s argument with reference to early modern genre studies. A writer’s mere choice of genre does not always reveal his or her actual communicative intention, and can serve as a camouflage. This is not the case with the breaking of genre conventions, which usually serves to suggest a hidden intention. To highlight this phenomenon Prejs presents the Baroque anti-laments, i.e. texts that have no justification in intertextual relationships to Jan Kochanowski’s Laments (Treny).

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