Cudzoziemskie relacje z podróży po Śląsku czasów oświecenia. Perspektywa genologiczna

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the problem of journalistic genres and travel discourse of Enlightenment age. As a material of research three travel reports of second half of XVIIIth. and the beginning of XIXth. centuries were analyzed. The author considers the speech genres features which are very complex and various. Apart from genre analysis the aspects of the picture of Silesia and its inhabitants were described. Silesia was portrayed in observed texts among other things as a land of great industry and economic success, both Catholic and Protestant faiths, remaining under foreign influence and furthermore, inhabited by smart, helpful and interesting people.
The analyzed text show that the process of forming the jour-nalist genres is very complex and long–term. On the other hand the interesting place is always, regardless of the epoch, a good subject to write about. The versatile portrait of Silesia and its inhabitants confirms the great interest of foreign lands in the age of Enlightenment.