Juxtaposition of the Polish Picaresque Literature and Hip-Hop. Intertextual Dialogue

Abstract

The article attempts to juxtapose the Polish picaresque literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and contemporary Polish hip-hop lyrics. It focuses on a dialogue between products of cultures that are distant from one another temporally. Intertextuality, as a research tool, creates an interesting way of looking at such seemingly dissimilar cultural phenomena, and the result of these investigations shows a clear dialogism of these texts.