Archetyp dnia, archetyp nocy. ikonograficzne ukształtowanie świata przedstawionego w „Baśni o rycerzu pańskim” Bolesława Leśmiana
Archetype of the day, archetype of the night. The sense of symbolic images in “The epic story about the Knight of the Lord” By Boleslaw Lesmian

Summary/Abstract: The article makes an attempt to interpret the sense of the symbolic space in Boleslaw Lesmian’s The epic story about the Knight of the Lord [1904] in the context of Gilbert Durand’s anthropology of imagination. The analysis of images in The epic story about the Knight of the Lord leads to the conclusion that Lesmian exploits and artistically transforms the archaic topos Drachenkampf. This transformation consists of cancellation of the diaïresis typical to Drachenkampf that represents schizomorphe type of imagining. Lesmian makes coalescence of the symbols characteristic to different orders of imagination (representing both the archetype of the day and the archetype of the night). This literary device leads to the aesthetic effect which is the experience of sadness.

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