Published: 2012-12-28

King-Ghost and playing with words

Jerzy Paszek

Abstract

The article presents a new approach to the language and style of Słowacki’s biggest work in terms of quantity (two volumes of inedits and separately printed first rhapsody of King-Ghost). The very sketch shows shaping and transformations of selected poem octaves, their masterpiece rhymes, any rhetoric pen moves in the sphere of syntax (a preference for sophisticated zeugma or surprising word clashes), hidden and camouflaged semantic play (references to a real or poetic etymology of particular words, perseverance of “stars” and “starwomen”. Also, the issues of editing mystic works by Słowacki intriguing the reader by an enigma of the “philological non-soluble” have been touched upon.

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Paszek, J. (2012). King-Ghost and playing with words. Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies], 2(1-2), 191–204. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/SSP/article/view/3257

Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne 2012 nr 1-2 (2)

Vol. 2 No. 1-2 (2012)
Published: 2012-12-28


ISSN: 2084-0772
eISSN: 2353-0928

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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