Dmitrij Tschižewskij’s Reading of Jan Amos Komenský’s Labyrint světa a ráj srdce

• Authors: Lachmann Renate

Abstracts

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This paper deals with Dmitrij Tschižewskij’s interpretation of Jan Amos Komenský’s poetical work Labyrint světa a ráj srdce. In Dmitrij Tschižewskij’s articles dedicated to this masterpiece of Czech literature the analysis of its structure and the exploration of its moral-religious message are intertwined. The fact that the work is an outstanding example of Baroque literature is of prime interest and allows for an innovative approach to its devices. Dmitrij Tschižewskij detects a structural quality of the poem which he is the first to name ‘word chains’. In following the overwhelming quantity of this device he lays bare a unique verbal construction that consists of a multitude of word groups each of which belongs to a semantic field of its own. In order to capture the very essence of this procedure Dmitrij Tschižewskij makes use of notions which the rhetorical system offers. In pointing out the Baroque character of some rhetorical figures that Komenský adopts in his poem, Dmitrij Tschižewskij reveals the interplay between these figures and the ‘world view’ they convey — according to his twofold interpretive style.

Keywords

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Jan Amos Komenský; Baroque poem; structural strategies; rhetorical figures; interpretive style

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 46
• Pages: 15-30

Contributors

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Lachmann Renate