Sienkiewiczowskie realizacje wzorca gatunkowego recenzji (na przykładzie sprawozdań z wystaw malarskich)
Sienkiewicz’s realisations of the genre pattern of the review (on the example of reports on painting exhibitions)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse Henryk Sienkiewicz’s reports on painting exhibitions from the genological viewpoint. The reports were published in „Gazeta Polska” (“The Polish Gazette”) in the period 1879–1881, in „Kronika miejscowa” (“Local Chronicle”) column. The texts are an interesting object of research due to their not fully determined genological status: for some researchers these are feuilletons, for others – critical reports, that is reviews in fact. Material analyses permit the location of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s accounts on painting exhibitions within the genre fi eld of reviews, with complex correlations between review and feuilleton and between review and report taken into consideration. As was rightly noticed by Bożena Witosz “genres crystallise their features together with other forms of expression which function in a given culture at a particular time” (2005: 181). Reports are a realisation of the alternate review pattern. Modifications resulting in the creation of a variant refer to: limiting the subject matter to evaluation of paintings (the cognitive aspect), combining information with evaluation and opinion (the structural aspect), expanding the illocutionary potential (the reports fulfilled various functions: information, education, popularisation, persuasion). As regards stylistic features, multi-style, resulting from the abundance of style registers, is typical of reports.

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