Epitet w adaptowanym libretcie barokowej opery. Rozważania nad kształtem stylistycznym Wybawienia Ruggiera z wyspy Alcyny Stanisława Serafina Jagodyńskiego

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to characterise epithet and its functions in Wybawienie Ruggiera z wyspy Alcyny by S.S. Jagodyński. Performed analysis has demonstrated that epithet, in the work covered by the study, is a form of expression of instrumental nature, although also one that serves a stylistic function. It is characterised by semantics that lack originality, rarely evoke metaphor, nevertheless, undoubtedly, it completes both the world presented on the plot level as well as the depiction of characters. It also often serves an important role as a component that improves cohesion of the text. This instrumentality and, at the same time, efficiency of an epithet may be attributed to the generic dimension of the work, i.e. opera libretto, and that is usually governed by plot and its dynamics, which is very important in an opera, as a peculiar synthesis of the arts.