About ladies, knights and “dummies”. The semantics of a “glance” in the novel “622 upadki Bunga” by Witkacy
Urszula Tatur
Uniwersytet w Białymstoku
Abstract
The article is a linguistic analysis of the realization of a paragon of chivalrous
love in the novel “622 upadki Bunga” (622 Downfalls of Bungo) by Witkacy. The
collected linguistic material is focused on the semantics of a “glance” being
a determinant of the paragon of love, which is conceptualized on the level of
the text. Its purpose is to show a way in which the author uses this cultural and
linguistic paragon of love, which has consolidated in the Western culture, thus
creating a linguistic image of a woman on the lexical and semantic level of the
work.
