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MIKULÁŠ DOHNÁNY: DUMY

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Somolayová Ľ.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2010

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vol. 57

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issue 1

1 – 13

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Ľubica Somolayová´s study Mikuláš Dohnány: Dumy (Contemplative Elegies) interprets one of the most significant texts of the author, a representative of Romantic generation, a cycle Dumy (Contemplative Elegies). She characterizes it in the wider context of his literary works. She analyses also some other texts (poems Improvizácia /Improvisation/ and Sen /The Dream/) inspired by romantic individualism and titanism. She mostly aimed at the poems with messianic motifs from the 40tieth of the 19th century (Slovo /The Word/, Zakliata krajina /Enchanted Country/, Syn Tatier /The Son of Tatras/). They became a starting impulse for her interpretation of Dumy (Contemplative Elegies). She considers the text as a symbiosis of the several romantic tendencies. Mikuláš Dohnány´s work proves the fact that an initial titanism is a common denominator typical for several messianic projects appreciating activity based on autonomous decisions of a subject made on behalf of the entire community. If the titanic act shows as non-realisable or it fails, the subject has a tendency to isolate, passively meditating in the shelter, waiting for an upcoming great historical change. The change does not come because of an autonomous decision of the subject, or the entire community, but in terms of messianic concept, it can come true only through meeting God´s plan.

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ŠPECIFIKÁ ROMANTICKÉHO ŽÁNRU DUMY V SLOVENSKOM KONTEXTE

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Somolayová Ľ.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2012

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vol. 59

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issue 2

112 – 121

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In her study, the author tries to characterize the „duma“ as a genre which is considered typical of Slovak Romanticism, however, it has – surprisingly - remained under researched to date. The „dumas“ by S. B. Hroboň and J. Král were juxtaposed with the genre invariant in Russian and Polish literatures. Originally a long epic form was transformed, probably under the influence of the Polish context, into a short lyric form with a reflective or elegiac tone in the Slovak cultural environment. Instead of the images of heroic battles, battles of ideologies or romantic heroes´ inner struggles are depicted. On the one hand important figures whose deeds should be remembered are celebrated, on the other hand historical failures, the incapability to take advantage of a historical situation for the nation´s benefit are lamented. When a great deed proves to be impossible or an attempted deed fails, what become dominant are messianic tendencies, calls for destruction and anticipation of a great historical change being a destiny or God´s plan fulfilled. Thus, the genre of „duma“ is modified in Slovak Romanticism as a blend of the elegy and the (never written) epos. The primary cause of sorrow and mourning is not a loss, though it is the romantic insufficiency, the absence of an ideal in the material world.

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POZNÁMKY K PROBLEMATIKE KONŠTRUOVANIA SUBJEKTIVITY V BALADÁCH JANKA KRÁĽA

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Somolayová Ľ.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2012

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vol. 59

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issue 6

490 – 497

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The study focuses on one of the creative areas of the poet who represents a complex of the various tendencies in the context of Slovak Romantic poetry. The author deals with three selected pieces of writing, tradionally labelled as ballads: Zakliata panna vo Váhu a divný Janko /Enchanted maid in the Váh and strange Janko/, Pán v tŕní /Master in the thorn-bush/ and Zverbovaný /Recruit/, in which she examines the way the subject is constructed and the dominance of reflection, the way the emotional state and experiencing is evoked, which shroud the ballad suyzhet being the text plan to a great extent. She draws attention to how the constructed subject corresponds to Schelling´s concepts and his idea of the „abandoned“ mankind, when man stops relating to nature as the divine principle, as well as to Hegel´s idea of the godless world and the impossibility to perform a heroic act within its framework. The hero of a romance being much too human therefore changes to a tragically lonely hero, who is a problem for himself, he becomes an object of his observation, he thinks about his thinking self. This moment is a symptom of the Romantic subject´s existence alone, or the subject´s separation from the natural world, his position face-to-face to nature and his related incapability to feel like home in such a position and replace the natural laws with the moral ones.

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MIKULÁŠ DOHNÁNY: DUMY

ŠPECIFIKÁ ROMANTICKÉHO ŽÁNRU DUMY V SLOVENSKOM KONTEXTE

POZNÁMKY K PROBLEMATIKE KONŠTRUOVANIA SUBJEKTIVITY V BALADÁCH JANKA KRÁĽA