Retoryka marzenia sennego. Oda do Wojciecha Turskiego (IV.32) Macieja Kazimierza Sarbiewskiego
The Rhetoric of the Dream: Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski’s ‘Oda do Wojciecha Turskiego’ [Ode to Wojciech Turski] (IV.32)

Summary/Abstract: Ryczek proposes a rhetorical interpretation of a Latin ode by Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, addressed to a certain Wojciech Turski (Lyrica IV.32). The second part of the article contains a transcript, Polish translation and a discussion of the text. Ryczek examines two of Sarbiewski’s lyrical narrations, both of which focus on the poet’s flight in vast expanses – his ironic renouncement of Horatian influences, as well as his evocation of the ambivalent myth of Icarus (the triumph of sublimation or the failure of imitative creativity). Their analysis from the perspective of the rhetoric of the dream makes it possible to bring to light and to describe the mimentic and semiotic mechanism involved in the creation of a textual world.

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