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The present paper outlines the basic assumptions of the research into the idyll in the discourse of Slovak Romanticism. The idyll is defined within the context of recent theoretical knowledge – such as the mode, the semantic attribute of the literary space. In this view the author examines the echo of the idyll in Slovak Romanticism, often coexisting with the aesthetics of melancholy. The author uses selected example pieces of writing by Slovak Romantic writers to prove the variety and interpreter effectiveness of the melancholy idyll, which is defined by three categories – space, time and self. The research material include selected poems written by Ján Botto and Janko Kráľ, which illustrate the specifics of creating the idyll in the discourse of Slovak Romanticism: the past dimension of the idyll, the present times of private pastoral myths, melancholy degradation of the idyllic space and coexistence of the idyllic locus amoenus with the elegiac locus terribilis. The degraded, lost melancholy idyll is thus interpreted as a part of the Romantic imagination – it enters into the dialogue with the legacy of early Slovak literature as well as it complements the register of literary means of expression with the modern, individualized self.
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Artykuł koncentruje się na dyskusjach wokół romantyzmu w kulturze słowackiej. Wskazuje na monolityczne i pluralistyczne interpretacje romantyzmu na gruncie słowackiego literaturoznawstwa i rozróżnia dwa paradygmaty światopoglądowe – tradycjonalistyczny i progresywny – które w kulturze słowackiej prowadzą z romantyzmem dialog. Szczególnie Niejednoznaczny fundament. Wokół romantyzmu słowackiego 103 ważnym głosem w dyskusji jest esej Michala Chorvátha Romantyczne oblicze Słowacji z 1939 roku, który rozwija tezę o długim trwaniu romantyzmu w kulturze słowackiej. Autorka śledzi krytyczne spory o romantyzm, żywotne zwłaszcza w okresie międzywojennym, które traktują romantyzm nie tylko jako zjawisko estetyczne, ale także jako formację kulturową i światopoglądową.
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The article focuses on an overview of the discussions around the meanings of romanticism in Slovak culture. It distinguishes “monolithic” and “pluralistic” romantic interpretations and confronts these models with world-view paradigms, namely “traditionalism” and “progressivism”. A key introduction to understanding the issue is Michal Chorváth’s essay Romantic face of Slovakia from 1939, probing a comprehensive recognition of the romantic heritage in Slovakia’s culture. The author follows critical disputes on romanticism, vital especially in the interwar period, treated romanticism not only as an aesthetic phenomenon, but also as a cultural and worldview formation. The article shows that traces of interwar discussions may be also found in polemics after 1989.
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The article is a contribution towards interpretations of Ján Botto’s (1829 – 1881) ballad Žltá ľalia ([Yellow lily] 1849, published in a magazine in 1860). It tackles the resonances between the Slovak Romantic poet’s poem with Lenore (1774), a ballad written by the German Pre-Romantic poet Gottfried August Bürger (1747 – 1794). It draws on comparatist works of the Slovak literary historian Zlatko Klátik and the Polish researcher Marie Janion, but also on literary-historical research that takes into account the specifics of Slavic versions of the motive of Lenore. The article dwells mainly on the female persona, primarily on the model set by Bürger, but also on other intertextual variants in Slavic poetry. Based on Botto’s ballad, the author identifies the Slovak variant of the motive of Lenore. This variation derives from folk literature, but simultaneously draws on some of the basic features of the Romantic imagination – the intertwining of the world of the living with the world of the dead and the presence of mysterious elements in everyday worldly life experience. Intertextual relations between the Slovak poem and Bürger’s Lenore, textual development of the female persona in the two texts and the position which female personas attain in Romanticism by way of accentuating feminine otherness are the central themes tackled in the article.
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The discussions about the possibilities and limitations of applying the postcolonial optics in Polish humanities can be seen as completed. The focus of the ongoing debates is being shifted in a different direction – towards new humanities, their borders, political involvement, hybrid methodology, social usefulness and team cooperation within their framework. Post-colonialism has been successfully „domesticated“ in the Polish academic environment as one of the several possibilities of scientific research and, at the same time, assimilated into professional literature and journalism. In practice, it means numerous book releases, which due to the transnational postcolonial perspective – overlap with the wider space of Central and Eastern Europe, which naturally leads to a supranational dialogue and a controversy not only over the method but also the subject of the research. The present paper focuses on selected aspects of the Polish discussions on post-colonialism with the intention to briefly map reception of one of the current and dynamically developing methodological alternatives in the Polish academic environment. At the same time, it offers a selective overview of the papers written on the subject and examines the state of Polish postcolonial criticism today.
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The paper outlines one of the forms of melancholy in the literary discourse of Slovak romanticism. As regards materials, it is based on ego documents by Mikuláš Dohnány (1824 – 1852), in particular his diaries (1850 – 1852) and correspondence (1839 – 1852), as regards research, it is focused on the conflict between the latent (melancholy) and manifested (heroic and messianic) lines of the author´s production. The antagonism between the ideal and the reality forms the basis for M. Dohnány´s life experience and it is also noticeable in his intimate diary records. The subject of the analysis is the performative and functional nature of Dohnány´s diaries, which feature so-called self-disciplining comments prompting the author to take action, to make a difference. Dohnány´s melancholy, which has several romantic characteristics (it is based on negation, inward oriented, attached to the „inner self ”), remains hidden thanks to them and is subject to the self-control mechanism as it does not correspond with the ideal of a „ brave Štúr´s follower“, which Dohnány kept trying to put into practice.
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