Peryfrazy nazw religijnych w poezji Marii Pawlikowskiej-Jasnorzewskiej
Periphrases of religious names in the poetry of Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

Summary/Abstract: The article includes a semantic and functional characteristic of 41 periphrases of religious names excerpted from the lyric poems of Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska. The functional analysis has revealed that they play first of all a poetic function, as they are outstanding for their semantics, for example, architekt snów i diamentów ‘Bóg’ ‘an architect of dreams and diamonds, God’, and an informative function, because they introduce new information on the elements of the presented world (they characterise supernatural beings – God, Christ, an angel,a devil…, and the places they can be found – Paradise, Heaven, Hell). The article presents innovative circumlocutions, which are idiolectical innovations of the poetess, as well as the conventional ones of a long-standing poetic tradition (for example, ciemności książę ‘Lucyfer’‘prince of darkness, Lucifer’). In addition, their literary and cultural motivations have beentraced. Most periphrases are motivated by a literary tradition, especially the Biblical one (for example, pan nad pany ‘Bóg’), Biblical events (Ten, który ongi wodę w wino zmienił ‘Chrystus’)or Christian images (Boży cień ‘diabeł’, ‘a divine shadow, a devil’). Popular folk visualisations of supernatural beings have become the basis for some periphrases (Osoba z rogami ‘diabeł’,‘a person with horns, a devil’).Download file

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