How Should One Write about Masters?
How Should One Write about Masters?
Author(s): Adam F. KolaSubject(s): Education, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Master;mastery;student;master-disciple relation;Andrzej de Lazari;Ernest Gellner;Alfred Tarski;Claude Lévi-Strauss;Andrzej Walicki;Roman Jakobson;rhetoric;narration;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to answer the question: how should one write about masters? It is a question about the narrative strategies of authors writing about masters. The presented analysis is based on five examples: (1) John A. Hall’s Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography, (2) Anita Burdman Feferman and Solomon Feferman’s Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic, (3) Edmund Leach’s Lévi-Strauss, (4) Andrzej Walicki’s Idee i ludzie. Próba autobiografii [Ideas and People. An Attempt at an Autobiography], and (5) Dialogues by Roman Jakobson and Krystyna Pomorska. Each text presents different rhetorical devices, authorial relations to the master, and academic aims. The paper concludes with a critical comparison of the five examples (with the addition of some other minor cases also discussed in the paper).
Journal: Nauki o Wychowaniu. Studia Interdyscyplinarne
- Issue Year: 8/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 70-89
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English