Teorie verše i jako teorie rytmu a melodie básníkovy promluvy

• Authors: Pavel Jiráček

Title variants

EN

A THEORY OF VERSE CONSIDERED ALSO AS A THEORY OF RHYTHM AND MELODY IN POETIC UTTERANCE

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article seeks to demonstrate that the traditional theory of verse, in which the stylistics of metre represents the whole theory (field of research), is no longer tenable. Metrics ignores lexical meaning. Its schemes relate to only part of the acoustic level and do not touch the meaning of the text as a whole or the significance of a single line. The author suggests that for the further development of the Czech theory of verse, it is necessary to rediscover poetic expression and introduce the concept persona as the starting point of scholarly reflection. He considers in detail Henri Meschonnic’s (1932–2009) non‑metrical theory of rhythm, and places his conception of rhythm at the centre of new research (theories) on verse. Rhythm is, according to Meschonnic, the movement of the voice in writing; in the rhythm of every utterance (not just poetic) we hear the subject, not the sound. In another reflection, the author of the article introduces the concept of the rhythm‑melody predication, which is linked to both the concept of predication and its tempo‑modal actualization. The basis of the act of assessment in a line of verse is the syllable, whereby the line of verse is even more a rhythm‑melody statement than a tempo- modal statement about the persona. The rhythm‑melody projection of the act of predication in a line expands the speaker’s subjectivity into the field of reference. Breaking down the word into syllables has the effect that in a line of verse the relationship between the reference and referent achieves the rhythm‑melody value system. In the conclusion of the article, on the basis of extensive research into individual perception as an immediate value movement in which the subjectivity of the poetic utterance resides the author endeavours to form constructs of the intratextual, individual, and non‑individual subjectivity of lyric verse’s rhythm subject.

Keywords

EN

THEORY OF VERSE; MESCHNONNIC HENRI; RHYTHM

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 374-394

Contributors

author

Pavel Jiráček

• Česká literatura, redakce, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic