The linguistic image of the soul in Polish early modernist ekphrases inspired by Arnold Böcklin’s paintings
The linguistic image of the soul in Polish early modernist ekphrases inspired by Arnold Böcklin’s paintings
Author(s): Lucyna BagińskaContributor(s): Jan Szelągiewicz (Translator)
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Lexis, Cognitive linguistics, Ontology, History of Art
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: soul; axiology; ekphrasis; painting; conceptualisation; Young Poland; early modernism in Poland;
Summary/Abstract: This article presents the results of a reconstruction of the linguistic image of the soul as an element of the represented world in the ekphrases by Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Maria Poraska, Zuzanna Rabska, Wanda Aleksandra Stanisławska, Lucjan Rydel and Karol Łepkowski. Their genesis lies in the fascination with works by Arnold Böcklin, one of the most famous painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article focuses on the axiological aspect and opens with a definition of the terms ekphrase and work of art. The analyses of the poems mainly rely on the tools of cognitive linguistics: profiling, conceptual metaphor and amalgamate.
Journal: Adeptus
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 1-25
- Page Count: 25
- Language: English