Różnowiercze treny. O literackich i kulturowych wzorcach w żałobnym cyklu Lenarta Gnoińskiego z 1614 roku
Threnodies of different creeds. On literary and cultural models in a cycle of elegies by Lenart Gnoiński from 1614

Author(s): Aleksandra Oszczęda
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the cycle of twelve lamentations written by an Arian poet andmaintained in a unique collection. In its style and layout (a series of lamentations finished witha gravestone), it refers to a model from Czarnolas, and when it comes to its content, it constitutesa polemics with Kochanowski’s attitude. Gnoiński does not share doubt expressed by the author ofTreny and does not go a long way looking for consolation after his wife’s death. His cycle, reflect‑ing the stages of mourning, closes with a declaration of an unshakeable belief in postmortal salva‑tion, and in his polemics with the Renaissance poet he refers to the Bible, congregation and ancientwriters. Quotations from the Holy Bible form a frame of a dialogue and basis of consolation. Theworldview is dictated by the collection of elegies by Tobiasz Wiszniowski while Ovidius’s Tr is t iareferred to several times determine the nature of emotions close to the author of Łzy smutne… Thetext also contains the phenomena from the area of the low culture: a popular song, rituals accompa‑nying the sites of transition or faith in a prophetic meaning of words. The article includes biographicand bibliographic findings.

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