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In Ukrainian and Belarusian 17th century literature of mourning there is no one common to all the authors vision of old age. It was presented as adifficult state, filled with suffering and even dangerous for those whom mental and bodily weakness prevented the holding of penance-delayed too long. At the same time, this grim vision coexisted with the optimistic picture of the autumn of life active and...
The “alphabet of senses” topos, popular in Polish Baroque literature, was also frequent in Ukrainian composition of the same period. It was very trendy those days to use strategies based on the compositive scheme of five elements enumeration, which is perfectly illustrated by sacramental commentaries of confirmation and anointing of the sick. Preachers like poets, tried to trigger the sensual imagination...
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