Światło i cień w „Zającu” Adolfa Dygasińskiego – analiza leksykalno-stylistyczna

The author of the paper discusses lexis imitating the play of light and shadow, various concentrations of brightness and darkness as well as mutual interpenetration of these two spheres. The analysis focused on semantic and contextual conditioning of words directly nominating light values (błyszczeć ‘to shine’, jaśnieć ‘to shine’, świecić ‘to glow, to shine’), words indicating not only objects, whose immanent trait is emitting light (jasne słońce lit. bright sun, świecący księżyc lit. shining moon, roziskrzone gwiazdy lit. sparkling stars), but also denotata, which situationally shine with refl ected light or light contrasted with a chromatic or achromatic colour (roziskrzone oczy lit. sparkling eyes, błyszczące łzy lit. shining tears, świecąca łysina lit. shiny bald patch, biała sierść błyskająca na tle zieleni lit. white hair flashing against a background of greenery).