Semantic relations between the binding and the content of selected books by Maria Janion in the communicative perspective

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyze the semantic relations between the binding and the content of selected scientific books by Maria Janion. It seems necessary in this regard to answer the following questions: how do the covers of the researcher’s volumes reflect their thematic layer? Is there a correlation between them? Is it possible to put forward a thesis about the unity of meaning of the bindings and the content of Janion’s works? Assuming that the first page of the cover is its most representative and important part due to priority contact between the author and the reader, it is worth emphasizing the communication aspect. An interesting cognitive task is the typologization of the covers due to the graphic elements appearing on them and the determination of the communication functions that they perform. It also turned out to be necessary to define the meanings generated by the bindings, i.e. what the messages contain, and to indicate the themes, topoi, motifs to which the covers refer and which appear in the scholar’s books.