PAVOL ORSZÁGH HVIEZDOSLAV A MÁJOVÉ OSLAVY 1918 V PRAHE (ČESKO-SLOVENSKÁ CESTA KU KANONIZÁCII CULTURAL SAINTS)

• Authors: Zelenková Anna

Title variants

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P. O. Hviezdoslav and the celebrations in Prague in May 1918 (Czecho-Slovak path towards canonisation of cultural saints)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Drawing also on formerly unexplored period documents, the article analyses the impact of P. O. Hviezdoslav’s participation in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the laying of the National Theatre’s foundation stone on the 16th – 18th May 1918. The contribution is methodologically grounded in the comparative-analytical model of the canonisation of cultural saints as outlined by J. Leerssen and M. Dović (J. K. Helgason – M. Dović: National Poets, Cultural Saints: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe, 2017). Through the prism of Hviezdoslav’s visit, the article follows the transfer of his personality and work from the secluded microcosm of intellectual elites into the public macrocosm of the future state-forming community. The poet’s transformation into a cultural saint, facilitated among other things by his speech addressed to Czech and Slovak extra-literary recipients at the celebrations, signified his approval for the ideology of Czechoslovakism. Historical importance of this visit to Prague consisted mainly in the fact that it was the first public acceptance of the envisaged integration into a common state.

Keywords

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P. O. HVIEZDOSLAV; NATIONAL POETRY; CANONISATION; CZECHO-SLOVAK LITERARY RELATIONS; NATIONAL THEATRE CELEBRATIONS; PRAGUE

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 643 – 659

Contributors

author

Zelenková Anna

• Slovanský ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. Valentínska 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2021.68.6.5