| dc.description.abstract | The book consists of nine chapters. In the first one, the understanding
of the term paedeia in the literary and paraliterary field is specified, giving
an insight into different term comprehension methods. The origin of the
paedeian trend in research, literature and culture is also presented in this
chapter. The person of the child is pointed out both as a creator and subject
of the play. Apart from that, the literary signs of paedeia noted here become
the subject of the study is subsequent parts of the book.
The main, second chapter serves the purpose of describing and analysing
the formal and literary aspects of paedeia in the poems. In this chapter, the
initial thoughts on the paedeia types and their mutual relations are presented.
The typical ones appeared as early as in the poems of Maria Konopnicka,
the precursor of paedeian poetry. That is why there is also a presentation of
the paedeian rule discovered in her poems – scenarios for play; and then in
Jan Brzechwa’s “new fable”, as well as in other poems by modern poets. The
signs of paedeia are also shown in the poetic works for the young generation.
The initial description of these signs ends with the comparative analysis of
the selected non-paedeian poems in the aspect of their quality in comparison
to the paedeian ones.
The analyses and initial reflections are a premise and a basis for creating
an algorithm of connections and structures of various types of paedeia in
children’s poems. It was created on the basis of interpretations and analyses
of numerous poems which were selected and presented in the form of anthology
of the paedeian poetry – from Konopnicka to Kern, which appears
in the Annex to this study. Research on the theoretical bases of the paedeia
signs in the poems allowed us to estimate the quality of the children’s poem
in an objective way. It shows that the poem meant for the child can only be
considered good if there is a paedeian rule present and, what also seems to
matter is the arrangement of the paedeia types.
The description of the formal extent of the paedeia signs in the poems is
shown in the taxonomy of paedeia, consisting of the paedeia types (mimicry,
alea, ilinx and agon) in various configurations (contaminations) in chapter
eight. The notional basis that was used to define the eight kinds of paedeia
is also exposed, as well as an attempt is made to use the paedeian theory for
poem evaluation.
Paedeia as a rule determines the genologic aspect of the poem, its shape
(or model), poetical means, point of view, coherence mechanisms, etc. The
more noticeable and clear the rule in a literary work, the more perfect the
poem, the more satisfying to the young recipient, because it entertains and
educates at the same time.
In the last chapter, the use of the paedeia theory is exemplified with
Kern’s poem Pierwszy.
The studied theory, based on the paedeian research, allows us to specify
the description and characterisation of the poem and define the axiology of
the most part of children’s literature. It is also a kind of the foreground for the
study of the paedeian discourse based on the poems selected for the analysis. | en |
