MIKULÁŠ DOHNÁNY: DUMY

• Authors: Ľubica Somolayová

Title variants

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Mikuláš Dohnány: Dumy (Contemplative Elegies)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Ľubica Somolayová´s study Mikuláš Dohnány: Dumy (Contemplative Elegies) interprets one of the most significant texts of the author, a representative of Romantic generation, a cycle Dumy (Contemplative Elegies). She characterizes it in the wider context of his literary works. She analyses also some other texts (poems Improvizácia /Improvisation/ and Sen /The Dream/) inspired by romantic individualism and titanism. She mostly aimed at the poems with messianic motifs from the 40tieth of the 19th century (Slovo /The Word/, Zakliata krajina /Enchanted Country/, Syn Tatier /The Son of Tatras/). They became a starting impulse for her interpretation of Dumy (Contemplative Elegies). She considers the text as a symbiosis of the several romantic tendencies. Mikuláš Dohnány´s work proves the fact that an initial titanism is a common denominator typical for several messianic projects appreciating activity based on autonomous decisions of a subject made on behalf of the entire community. If the titanic act shows as non-realisable or it fails, the subject has a tendency to isolate, passively meditating in the shelter, waiting for an upcoming great historical change. The change does not come because of an autonomous decision of the subject, or the entire community, but in terms of messianic concept, it can come true only through meeting God´s plan.

Keywords

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DOHNÁNY MIKULÁŠ; INTERPRETATION; ROMANTICISM; MESSIANISM; SUBJECT

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1 – 13

Contributors

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Ľubica Somolayová

• Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV, Konventná 13, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic