Styl przedmów Michała Abrahama Troca
The Style of Michał Abraham Troc’s Forewords and Prefaces
Author(s): Ewa RodekSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: styl retoryczny; przedmowa; oświecenie; epoka saska; the rhetoric style; foreword; preface; The Enlightenment in Poland; The Saxon Epoch
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the stylistic changes in Michał Abraham Troc’s prefaces and forewords written at the end of the Baroque and the beginning of the Enlightenment period. Three texts of comparable length, published at twenty years intervals have been studied: the foreword to Argenida by Wacław Potocki, i.e. the first volume of the {Biblioteca polono-poetica} (1728), the prefaces to Troc’s French-German-Polish Dictionary (1744), and his Polish-German-French Dictionary (1764). The style of the texts had evolved and there are observable differences in the proportion of emotional and intellectual elements. The composition of the foreword and the prefaces, and the use of linguistic means show that the respective texts belong to different epochs.
Journal: Prace Filologiczne
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 62
- Page Range: 255-272
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Polish