PROSE POEM IN SLOVAK LITERARY MODERNISM (NOTES ON GENRE AND TYPOLOGY)

• Authors: Hučková Dana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study examines the genre classification of prose poems in general and the place of prose poems in Slovak literature during the first third of the 20th century, when several modernist poets, including Ivan Krasko (1876–1958), Vladimír Roy (1885–1936), and Martin Rázus (1888–1937), devoted themselves to this genre. The study also explores subsequent Slovak literary reflections on the prose poem. The subversive loosening and re-evaluation of poetic and prose conventions in the genre led to the emergence of a new hybrid form, which appears as a revolution in the context of modernism, representing a new form of cultural performance. Contemplativeness is identified as the fundamental poetic quality in Slovak texts. The study also highlights differences in the genre classification of individual works; for example, I. Krasko's prose poems are perceived as poems, while the texts of V. Roy and M. Rázus are classified as belonging to the epic genre. The study outlines a framework for defining and classifying the genre, utilizing a polyphonic spectrum of approaches. The study concludes that the definition of the genre through the dynamics of opposites proves to be insufficient in current research. Literary genres are extremely flexible categories whose boundaries are defined almost exclusively to be crossed and overcome. From this perspective, the genre in question also requires a new reading and research.

Keywords

EN

GENOLOGY; PROSE POEM; SLOVAK LITERATURE; MODERNISM

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 300 – 313

Contributors

author

Hučková Dana

• Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6157-8821

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2025.72.4.2