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The article discusses the role of vermin in the vanitas discourse in the Polish poetry from the late 16th until the 18th centuries. The introduction, using the example of Żale nagrobne by Sebastian Fabian Klonowic, shows the change in the manner of discussing death, which came about soon after the death of Jan Kochanowski, making it possible to return to the medieval visions of decomposition, enriched...
This article has comparative character. It concerns some baroque ispirations in creation of Polish writer Marek Krajewski. Among others motive of regale appears in it – at first on honour of life. Then it is transformed to banquet of death (with rats as banqueters). These conversions remember baroque poetry of Józef Baka. The manner of describing of human body on banquet of death – this is the next...
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