JURAJ ROHOŇ V REFLEXII RUDA BRTÁŇA

• Authors: Babiak Michal

Title variants

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Juraj Rohoň in reflection by Rudo Brtáň

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The subject of the analysis is a lesser-known study by Rudo Brtáň (1907 – 1998) about Slovak classicist Juraj Rohoň (1773 – 1831), originally from the Turiec region that spent most of his life in Low Land. The study titled Juraj Rohoň was published by R. Brtáň in a literature and culture magazine of Yugoslavian Slovaks called Nový život/New Life/ in 1965, which is produced in Serbia. This is why it remained less accessible and known to a significant part of Slovak literary science. Brtáň´s paper has fundamental importance for understanding of J. Rohoň´s life and work. His findings are confronted with several recent investigations (S. Čelovský, E. Brtáňová, M. Babiak) in the study. A significant part of Brtáň´s research is focused on genealogy, where besides Rohoň´s immediate relatives he tracked other notable figures of this national revivalist, intellectual and artistic family. He also describes in more detail Rohoň´s main literary works: so-called apologias Chvála Slováků/Apotheosis of Slovaks and Palma/A Palm Tree, a collection of neoclassical poems Kratochvílne zpěvy pro mládež rolníckou/Leisure Time Songs for the Farming Youth/, and also a collection of Slovak folk songs Starodávne zpěvy lidu slovenského v Uhrách/Ancient Songs of Slovak Folk in Hungary/, which became a part of Kollár´s Národnie spievanky/National Songs/. The works which defended Slovaks and Slavs earned Rohoň a place in Ján Kollár´s poem Slávy dcera/The Daughter of Sláva/ – Kollár placed him alongside other authors who had published apologias in the Slavic heaven.

Keywords

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ROHOŇ JURAJ; NEOCLASSICAL POETRY; BRTÁŇ RUDO

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 384 – 392

Contributors

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Babiak Michal

• Katedra estetiky, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Komenského, Gondova 2, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic