Timor, ira, despectio. O postsekularnej retoryce międzywojennej awangardy

The article aims to highlight the most important rhetorical strategies used by some avant-garde poets to write about the social problems of the Second Polish Republic. The author shows that the references to religious language appearing at the turn of the 1920s in the works of avant-garde poets serv...

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Published inRes Rhetorica Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 5 - 24
Main Author Pietryga, Adam
Format Journal Article
LanguagePolish
Published Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne 2022
Polish Rhetoric Society
Subjects
Philology
postsecularism
avantgarde rhetoric
Polish poetry
avantgarde
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Summary:The article aims to highlight the most important rhetorical strategies used by some avant-garde poets to write about the social problems of the Second Polish Republic. The author shows that the references to religious language appearing at the turn of the 1920s in the works of avant-garde poets served the purposes of persuasion: to evoke emotions (such as ira, timor, despectio), to visually comment on the socio-political situation after the May events and the economic crisis, and finally to express anxiety over the specter of imminent crisis. When discussing selected works by Julian Przyboś, Anatol Stern, Bruno Jasieński, and Jalu Kurek, the author focuses on rhetorical means and figures taken from religious discourse by constructivist poets and former futurists. This article contributes to the post-secular considerations and rhetorical analyses of contemporary Polish poetry, shedding new light on the influence of biblicisms and religious language on the socially engaged avant-garde poetry.
ISSN:2392-3113
2392-3113