Fauna, flora i cudowność — zagadki Wojciecha Tylkowskiego

Aleksandra Deskur

doi:10.18778/8142-192-8

Wildlife and Mirability — Wojciech Tylkowski’s Riddles

Aleksandra Deskur

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza

Publication:

The Motifs of Fauna and Flora in Literature and Culture

Series: Literary and Linguistic Analects

Pages: 153-158

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-192-8.10

Keywords: animals in mythology, fauna and flora in literature and culture, mimicry in literature, ecological humanities

Published: December 30, 2018

Categories: Polish philology, Open Access

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The aim of this paper is to analiyze the motives connected with a natural science in scientific treatise written by Wojciech Tylkowski — The Wise Conversations. Wildlife, animals and plants are important components of Tylkowski’s work — and a scientific interest in the evironment let researchers recognize The Wise Conversations as an example of very atractive type of Baroque literary production, called scientia curiosa (“interesting science”). In general this kind of literature is known of science popularization, making common knowledgle more fascinating and encouraging people to pay some attention to scientific questions.

Aleksandra Deskur, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza

Aleksandra Deskur — doktorantka na Wydziale Filologii Polskiej i Klasycznej Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. Interesuje się literaturą epok dawnych i jej związkami z innymi dziedzinami nauki (historią, filozofią, nauką, teologią), językoznawstwem historycznym i współczesnym oraz wykorzystywaniem nowych technologii w badaniach nad językiem.

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Deskur, Aleksandra. 2018. “Wildlife and Mirability — Wojciech Tylkowski’s Riddles”. In The Motifs of Fauna and Flora in Literature and Culture, edited by Michał Kuran, IX:153-58. Literary and Linguistic Analects. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-192-8.10.