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ŠPECIFIKÁ ROMANTICKÉHO ŽÁNRU DUMY V SLOVENSKOM KONTEXTE

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Somolayová Ľ.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

2012

vol. 59

issue 2

112 – 121

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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