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World Literature Studies
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2018
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vol. 10
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issue 3
5 – 18
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The article is focused on the role of metaphor in 20th- and 21st-century poetry, its aesthetic, semantic as well as cognitive function, measure and way of its presence in the lyrical text – the share of metaphor in the creation of a general aesthetic value and sense of the poem. The author is interested in possible interpretations of poetic metaphor not only within traditional descriptive-classifying poetological or rhetorical-stylistic interpretive models, but also in a methodologically wider context, e. g. also in the light of current conceptually and cognitively-based theories. In this sense, he concentrates on two main aims or problem areas: 1. an attempt to reinterpret the classically understood poetic metaphor and its traditional theoretical understanding on a synecdochically selected example from Slovak literary modernism or post-symbolism, Novomeský’ s poem “The Thousand and One Nights” (“Tisíc a jedna noc”); 2. in the background, the problem and specificities of metaphor in recent and most recent poetry via concrete illustrative textual extracts from a more widely-understood current author (Štrpka’ s text). The study also touches upon the questions of the pragmatics of metaphor, as a way of constituting the meaning of the poem.
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The paper focuses on paradoxical aspects of P. O. Hviezdoslav’s personality. The poet – although considered a central figure in the Slovak literary canon, institutionally accepted authority and emblem of national culture – remains “rather unpopular and basically unread” and “incomprehensible”. Slovak literary studies, especially before 1989, praised Hviezdoslav’s folk realistic orientation – especially in his “peasant themes”. This narrative foregrounded his folk realistic orientation which was supposed to make his poetry more accessible to the common reader. By means of synecdochal interpretation of fragments of his work, the author of the article shows that Hviezdoslav’s peasant themes – by their expressive, formal and genre qualities – do not display so much a folk realistic influence as the poet’s tendency towards verbal extensiveness, stylistic “exclusivity,” mannerism, Parnassism and respect for classical models. The paper focuses on how these features influence the real status and reception of Hviezdoslav’s poetry today.
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The paper focuses on the issue of the semiotics of the fragment, its meaning-making function in the figurative and semantic structure, or semiosis of a particular lyric text, with special attention to the close and key connection between imagery and memory. The poem “Spamäti” (By heart, 1957) by Ján Ondruš (1932 – 2000), one of the most distinctive Slovak poets of the second half of the twentieth century, interpreted by Fedor Matejov in his 2018 essay “the lonely boy leaning against the wall” (Ján Ondruš’s poem “Spamäti [By heart]”), serves as an illustrative example. The paper has a meta-interpretive character – it is an interpretation of an interpretation, a reading of a reading. In this sense, it addresses not only the poetics and semiosis of the text but primarily seeks to analytically grasp and characterize the interpretive procedures, strategies, methodological specificities, and the overall logic and significance of Fedor Matejov’s approach. Matejov is considered one of the most original and erudite contemporary Slovak literary scholars focused on the interpretation of Slovak poetry after 1945 and this paper wishes to elucidate the distinctive features of his interpretive practice.
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