Księgi uczone i pożyteczne rekomendowane w „Zabawach Przyjemnych i Pożytecznych”
Scholarly and useful books recommended in „Zabawy Przyjemne i Pożyteczne”

Author(s): Bożena Mazurkowa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The subject of considerations is formally diversified advertisement texts and occasional poems publishedin the first Polish literary periodical. They constitute an interesting source of studies on readingculture at that time. Texts written by highly‑regardededucation activists and writers (Grzegorz Piramowicz,Urban Szostowicz) and Michał Gröll, a publisher, printer and bookseller distinguished for our nativeculture, contain a directly or indirectly expressed encouragement to take into account publications ofan academic nature and writings of a broadly‑undersstoodusefulness when choosing books. The analysisof a source material allows for defining various strategies used by the above‑mentionedauthors inorder to interest readers with books proving technical and scientific novelties, achievements in medicalknowledge and works useful in an every‑daylife at that time. The subject of inquiries is a broad spectrumof persuasive means serving a proper presentation of author profiles and indication of a text renown topublish and their life usefulness.

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