O pogranicznym charakterze Sienkiewiczowskiej publicystyki
On the liminal character of Sienkiewicz’s journalistic writing

Author(s): Magdalena Pietrzak
Subject(s): Language studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Polish Literature, Western Slavic Languages, Philology, Stylistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: journalism; Henryk Sienkiewicz; journalistic genre; 19th century Polish language; stylistics
Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to Henryk Sienkiewicz’s journalistic writing, shown from the perspective of stylistic and genre boundaries. Analyses of selected press statements have aimed to indicate the presence of stylistic elements characteristic of literature in journalistic texts and to show how, on the other hand, the journalistic experience (e.g. in the form of reports from painting exhibitions, correspondence from travels) has found its artistic rendering in Sienkiewicz’s literary works. The research material consists of texts representing Sienkiewicz’s most frequently employed journalistic genres: note, review and travel correspondence. The analyses have been formulated in their appropriate contexts, taking into account the state of 19th-century journalism, the genre consciousness of the time and Sienkiewicz’s literary output.

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