Motyw podróży i drogi z punktu widzenia edytorskich i stylistycznych rozwiązań Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego

Abstract

The intention of the author of the paper is to study what choices were made by the publisher, in relation to the journey-describing texts, and to present what linguistic picture of journey emerged from the “amended texts”. The author analyses the manifestations of the motif of way and journey in the works by J.I. Kraszewski, and shows how the author re-edited the text of Memories of Wolyn, Polesie, and Lithuania in the work published under the same title twenty years later. That example shows particularly clearly the evolution of the decision of the editor made on his own text. He also asks a question about the extent to which we can consider journalism a romantic writer’s report, and he deliberates its genre markers in the 19th century.