Wartość łacińskich oracji Fabiana Birkowskiego
The value of Fabian Birkowski's Latin orations

Author(s): Beata Gaj
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Fabian Birkowski; social and religious oratory; value category
Summary/Abstract: Although the concept of value in rhetoric seems to be an ambiguous one (because rhetoric itself is primarily a set of neutral means that can be used in various ways), one of the Polish baroque speakers, Fabian Birkowski, considered the greatest and even the only rhetorical value to be enthusiasm and energy of the speaker. Birkowski himself, the second Polish preacher after Piotr Skarga, did not create homogenous talks. His Polish speeches differ in structure and quality from his Latin ones. Moreover, within the latter, the speaker promotes other values in speeches in honor of the saints, other in academic speeches, and other in so-called polemical speeches. In the contemporary assessment of Birkowski’s oratory, it is worth paying attention especially to Academic Speeches; the values promoted there (features of a good humanist, student and scientist) are invariably desirable today.

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