Pochwała władcy: Napastnik. Opowieść o Viktorze Orbánie Igora Jankego
The praise of the ruler: The forward. The story of Viktor Orban by Igor Janke

Author(s): Mirosław Ryszkiewicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: praise; persuasion; propaganda; repetition; prophecy
Summary/Abstract: This article attempts to present the rhetorical analysis of a biography of the current Hungarian prime minister, written by a Polish journalist and published in 2012. All the textual dimensions (inventio, compositio and elocutio) and extratextual (communicative, contextual, and con-situational) conditions of this biographical novel point at its epideictic, panegyrical, and even “hagiographic” nature, as it directly names or indirectly shares the value system of believers of“ sovereign democracy” desperate for a charismatic and autocratic ruler, who in Janke’s biography emerges as a specific figure of “a forward”, “the ruler of Orbanistan” or “Viktator.”

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