VIANOCE AKO DRAMATICKÁ SITUÁCIA V SLOVENSKEJ MODERNISTICKEJ DRÁME PRVÉHO DESAŤROČIA 20. STOROČIA (VLADIMÍR HURBAN VLADIMÍROV, VLADIMÍR HURBAN SVETOZÁROV)

• Authors: Cupanová Katarína

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Christmas as a dramatic situation in Slovak modernist drama of the first decade of the 20th century (Vladimír Hurban Vladimírov, Vladimír Hurban Svetozárov)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Christmas Nativity plays had long been a traditional part of Slovak folk theatre. Christmas performances were also popular with amateur theatres in the late of the 19th century. In the early of the 20th century, Nativity motives also inspired dramatists adhering to the new modernist style. Vladimír Hurban Vladimírov (pseudonym VHV, 1884 – 1950, play Vianoce – Christmas, 1904) and Vladimír Hurban Svetozárov (pseudonym VHS, 1883 – 1949, play Vianoce – Christmas, 1908) pushed the enactment of Christmas ceremonies to the background and concentrated on individual actions and experiences of their heroes. Both texts bear numerous features of period European modernist drama (preference for short dramatic form, character reduction, restricted dialogues, intensified dramatic conflict and communication crisis as a theme). Their innovative – emotionally and morally subversive – handling of Christmas topics employed modernist dramatic techniques and gave the developmental line of biblical, folk and didactic Nativity plays a new dimension. It gave birth to texts of expressively escalated emotional and moral dramas describing family break ups which focus on intimacy rather than on the religious message.

Keywords

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MODERNIST DRAMA; VLADIMÍROV VLADIMÍR HURBAN; SVETOZÁROV VLADIMÍR HURBAN; DRAMATIC SITUATION; THEMATIC SUBVERSION; CHRISTMAS; SLOVAK MODERNIST DRAMA

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 154 – 173

Contributors

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Cupanová Katarína

• Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2021.68.2.7