Motywy szpiegowskie w staropolskiej epice heroicznej (na wybranych przykładach)
Spy motives in the Old‑Polish heroic narrative (on selected examples)

Author(s): Renata Ryba
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The work concerns the means of functioning spy motives, especially Baroque ones in theworks of the nature of a heroic narrative, among other things, in Potrzeba z Szeremetem by SamuelLeszczyński and Mars sauromacki by Samuel (Hutor) Szymonowski and Przeważna legacyja bySamuel Twardowski. The very motive fulfilled various functions, i.e. interested with a thrilling plot,co‑createdthe image of a good because a sensible ruler constituted an important evidence of truth ofthe events presented from the perspective of the poetics of “native heroicum” at that time.The literary motives in question are placed in the cultural context; the traces of spy art findtheir proofs in the Bible. The presence of spy motives was also recorded in the Ancient literature (inworks by Homer and Virgil).

• Details
• Contents