OBITUARY IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY ‒ GENOLOGICAL APPROACH. PROLEGOMENA (BASED ON KRAKOW FUNERAL NOTICES) Cover Image

KLEPSYDRA W PIERWSZEJ POŁOWIE XIX WIEKU ‒ UJĘCIE GENOLOGICZNE. PROLEGOMENA (NA MATERIALE KRAKOWSKICH KARTEK POGRZEBOWYCH)
OBITUARY IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY ‒ GENOLOGICAL APPROACH. PROLEGOMENA (BASED ON KRAKOW FUNERAL NOTICES)

Author(s): Iwona Steczko
Subject(s): Media studies, Local History / Microhistory, 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: obituary; funeral genre; polysemiotic genre; historical genology;

Summary/Abstract: The study is rooted within the research trend of historical genology, concentrating on a certain type of funeral statement (obituary) at an early stage of its development. The research material is a collection of obituaries (500 texts) dating from 1810‒1850, from the collections of the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow. Presented preliminary research results prove that the obituary is a polysemiotic type of statement, a ge- neric variant of a funeral request with a clear construction pattern, including two compositional types.

  • Issue Year: 27/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 191-202
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish