O wtórnych gatunkach mowy w utworach literackich Wyznanie w wierszu Leopolda Staffa „Podwaliny“
On secondary speech genres in literary works. Confession in Leopold Staff’s poem “Podwaliny” ‘Foundations’

Summary/Abstract: This article refers to Bakhtin’s concept of primary and secondary speech genres. Theobservations concern the genre of CONFESSION (Polish: wyznanie) – analyzed against the back-ground of several related Polish communication structures. An accurate comparison of the genre ofCONFESSION, functioning in colloquial speech, with the presumptive one appearing in a poemreveals that the original genre pattern undergoes various modifications in the new discursivesituation. Its illocutionary determinants and perlocution are slightly different in the literary contextand it also has a more universal character. Its content is sometimes enriched thanks to variousintertextual references.The above conclusions result from the analysis of Leopold Staff’s poem Podwaliny (‘Foundations’)interpreted as a confession that poignantly shows the condition of a man who survived a warcataclysm. The poem evokes images known from the Gospel parable of good and bad constructionmodifying them in a significant way.

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