THE LONG SLOVAK NINETEENTH CENTURY (Dlhe slovenske devatnaste storocie)

• Authors: Zajac Peter
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The article approaches the phenomenon of Slovak literary Romanticism through the idea of the so-called 'long 19th century', a longer perspective than the duration of the so-called national revival. The anti-modernist attitudes of a great part of the Slovak literary intelligentsia throughout the 19th century can be suspended in the cultural-historical or social-historical idea of modernization. With the hindsight of the contemporary struggles between the empirical and constructivist historiography, Slovak Romanticism appears as a cultural initiative that combines the moment of rational evaluation of the socio-cultural situation of the Slovak national community in the middle of the 19th century with the constructivist (idealistic) moment. The various combinations of both moments lead in the Slovak Romantic literature to the creation of neo-mythological self-representations, which are discussed in the second part of the paper.

Keywords

EN

19TH CENTURY; CONSTRUCTIVISM; EMPIRICISM; MYTHOLOGY; SLOVAK ROMANTICISM

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 3 (20)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 17-24
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zajac Peter

• Prof. DrSc. Peter Zajac, CSc., Ustav slovenskej literatury SAV, Konventna 13, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA09642