Klepsydra w pierwszej połowie XIX wieku – ujęcie genologiczne. Prolegomena (na materiale krakowskich kartek pogrzebowych)

Abstract

Obituary in the first half of the 19th century ‒ genological approach. Prolegomena (based on Krakow funeral notices) The study is rooted within the research trend of historical genology, concentrating on a certain type of funeral statement (obituary) at an early stage of its development. The research material is a collection of obituaries (500 texts) dating from 1810‒1850, from the collections of the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow. Presented preliminary research results prove that the obituary is a polysemiotic type of statement, a generic variant of a funeral request with a clear construction pattern, including two compositional types.