SYMBOLISM AND POETIC CREATION OF EDVARTS VIRZA

• Authors: Tesarova J.
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The authoress is concerned with the works of the great Latvian poet Edvarts Virza, and she concentrates on his poetic collection 'Bikeris' (The Cup), which is a genuine and at the same time the only piece of work representing Latvian symbolism in 'clear' form. Edvarts Virza subordinates a human life to the natural vegetation cycle and he integrates it into the higher structure of a natural cycle; it is the result of Virza's pantheism (pantheistic teaching), which identifies God with a nature and understands nature as a creative nature (natura naturans), not as a nature created (natura naturata). The model of the relations between man and nature Virza encoded into the symbols of a garden, flower, and cup. In accordance with the poetics of the symbolism these symbols are multi-positioned; they have several levels and surfaces.

Keywords

EN

LATVIAN SYMBOLISM; NATURE; PANTHEISM; VIRZA EDVARTS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovak Review. A Review of World Literature Research
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-10
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Tesarova J.

• J. Tesarova, Ustav svetovej literatury SAV, Konventna 13, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA02244696