Retoryka (klasyczna) vs retoryczność (ponowoczesna) Analiza retoryczna polemiki naukowej. Przypadek Jakuba Z. Lichańskiego i Michała Rusinka
(Classical) Rhetoric vs. (Postmodern) Rhetoricity. The Rhetorical Analysis of a Scholarly Polemic. The Case of Jakub Z. Lichański and Michał Rusinek

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to describe the dispute in the theory of literature, as exemplifiedby a polemic between Professor Jakub Z. Lichański and Professor Michał Rusinek. Thepublic dispute of these scholars was mainly conducted in the issues of some major Polishhumanities periodicals at the beginning of the first decade of the 21st century and concernedthe perception of rhetoric, which Prof. Lichański understands in a traditional but at thesame time modern way, while prof. Rusinek applies conceptually sophisticated categoriesof postmodernity. Surprisingly, the method of describing this polemic is offered by classicalrhetoric itself, which integrates textual, communicative and contextual aspects of eachstatement, demonstrating its persuasive, i.e.: cognitive, educational and aesthetic functions.Even in the case of a scientific dissertation, particularly, a polemical one.

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