Gatunkowa hybryda z 1638 roku: Samuela Twardowskiego Dafnis drzewem bobkowym (przyczynek do „zagłady gatunków”)
A Hybrid Genre from 1638: Samuel Twardowski’s Daphne Transformed into a Laurel Tree

Summary/Abstract: In the pastoral romance ‘Daphne Transformed into a Laurel Tree’ by the seventeenthcentury Polish poet, diarist, and essayist Samuel Twardowski, the only genre of legitimate status is the bucolic (in itself already a hybrid?); the romance and the grotesque have a lower status, and an even lower status falls to the anti-bucolic, the anti-romance, and the ‘tamed grotesque’. To put it differently: Twardowski takes up and at the same time subverts, in various ways, the conventions of the bucolic, of the romance and of the grotesque, so that his ‘Daphne’ can be read as a text that is ‘open’ to ‘games’ with those conventions, which in turn allows us to read it as a contribution to ‘the annihilation of genres’.

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