Między erudycją, retoryką i świadectwem. Kilka uwag o treści i funkcjach przypisów w twórczości Adama Mickiewicza. Część I (do 1826 roku)
Between erudition, rhetoric and evidence. A few remarks on the content and functions of footnotes in works by Adam Mickiewicz. Part I (until 1826)

Author(s): Marek Stanisz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Adam Mickiewicz provided many of his poetic works with footnotes. In a youth period of hisliterary activity, the very footnotes appeared in among others Ballady i romanse, Grażyna and Sonetykrymskie as well as several shorter texts (such as Kartofla, Mieszko, książę Nowogródka, DoJoachima Lelewela, Popas w Upicie). The footnotes in the texts under investigation were ascribedmaiiny eruditive functions, and constituted a form of uniting readers and influencing their way ofreading. Besides, they were a record of personal experiences of the poet. In the footnotes from thisperiod of time Mickiewicz rejected an image of a naive and romantic individual, instead presentedhimself as a historian-esseist and a political columnist writer, a folklore enthusiast and sophisticatedtourist, humourist and satirist, reporter and philologist. Thus, his footnotes allow for showing hisyouth works from a unique and original perspective.

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