Dyskursy o "raptularzu" i ich krytyczny potencjał

Abstract

In my article I focus on the category of raptularz which was not yet elaborated. It appeared in old Polish language, and it gained a great popularity in the 20th century. Using the dictionaries and recalling the examples from the area of old and new writing, the author shows diverse panorama of discourses about the raptularz. This name is often used interchangeably with the category of the sylwa, and thus, taking into account certain characteristics of poetics of the sylwa and of the raptularz, as well rhetorical mechanisms (they are particularly distinct in the raptularz) which are related of them, we can be more critical in relation to the tradition of excluding the sylwa and the raptularz from the convention and rhetoric domain.