Modlitwa jako element struktury Obleżenia Jasnej Góry Częstochowskiej
A prayer as an element of the structure of Obleżenie Jasnej Góry Częstochowskiej

Author(s): Monika Kulig
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the prayers included in Obleżenie Jasnej Góry Częstochowskiej, an anonymouswork from the 17th century. During the analysis and interpretation of supplications appearingin the work, the author pays attention to their fixed elements. The new elements introduced by theauthor of the poem underwent a more detailed observation. They make a given act be characteristicof only an appropriate fiction situation and readable only in a given context. She indicates the influenceof church’s preaching on the construction of prayer acts, traces of old pagan beliefs and magicrituals in the contents of the prayers of Obleżenie… She presents the situations in which the prayersappear and the way in which by means of the prayer acts the author gives a spiritual characteristicof the characters, and, thus, introduces an element of literariness to the chronicle report from thecourse of he battle for the monastery.

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