Rzymskim szlakiem Sarbiewskiego
Following the Roman Route of Sarbiewski

Author(s): Aleksander, Wojciech Mikołajczak, Rafał Dymczyk
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Poetry, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski; Iter Romanum; Roman road; poetry; elegy; baroque
Summary/Abstract: The book is a literary monograph containing a study of the Latin elegy Iter Romanum [The Roman Road] by Jesuit poet Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640). The book’s contents include a critical edition of the Latin text and a new translation of the text with an exegetical commentary. The monograph is methodologically consistent with the latest trend of literary research, using the tools of poststructuralist analysis. It is also an attempt to use the means of expressing a new narrative in neo-Latinism. Thus, the authors use not only the traditional verbal narrative, but also a largely iconographic one. An important formal novelty is the juxtaposition of the scientific text with a complementary essay layer, created by journalists who traveled in Sarbiewski's footsteps today and recorded their impressions of the same places seen 400 years later. The book is the result of an innovative research project that is a collaboration between Adam Mickiewicz University, Audi Poland Corporation and the Wielkopolska-Mazowsze Province of the Society of Jesus.

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