IGOR'S TALE IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH: KEENAN'S HYPOTHESIS AND ITS LINKS (ON THE ATTEMPT AT THE 'NEW SOLUTION' OF AN OLD PROBLEM OF THE ORIGIN OF THE IGOR'S TALE) TO THE MEMORY OF PROFESSOR ROMAN MRAZEK

• Authors: Pospisil I.
• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The author deals with Edward Keenan's attempt at the new solution of the problem of the authorship of the Igor's Tale and with his hypothesis about Josef Dobrovsky's key role. The author comments upon Keenan's hypothesis critically but with understanding evaluating his close reading of the text and his brilliant attempts at the new interpretation of several crucial words and word groups. Keenan's book, though polemic and disputable, presents a profound picture from a multidisciplinary point of view: it gives an apt psychological portrait of Josef Dobrovsky set in a wider context of Czech national revival, his underevaluated poetic abilities, the deep generational controversies between Dobrovsky and his Czech disciples; Keenan also demonstrates his insight into the linguistic context of the Igor's Tale, but the most important passage is linked with the depiction of the genesis of the rise of the Igor's Tale, about both the original manuscript and the copy in which he cast doubt upon the real existence of the original. The Czech vestiges in the language of the Igor's Tale are interpreted in an interesting way though the problem of Turkish words remained unsolved. Although Keenan - as he himself puts it - does not pretend he really and undoubtedly solved the old problem, he created a fundamental monograph of the Igor's Tale which may serve as a good basis for future research; the main contribution, however, consists in evoking new doubts at the time when nearly all the Western and Russian textbooks of Russian literature came conventionally to the conclusion that there were none, and even the past polemics about the character of the Igor's Tale were tabooed.

Keywords

EN

DOBROVSKY JOSEF; IGOR'S TALE; KEENAN'S EDWARD NEW HYPOTHESIS; LINGUISTIC RESEARCH; TEXT INTERPRETATION

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Jan Stanislav Slavonic Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Matica Slovenska
• Journal: Slavica Slovaca
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 37-48
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pospisil I.

• I. Pospisil, Ustav slavistiky FiF Masarykovej univerzity, Arna Novaka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA02925953