Krátká věčnost. Narativní inscenace věčnosti do roku 1800

• Authors: Kateřina Smyčková

Title variants

EN

Short eternity. Narrative representations of eternity to 1800

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study follows on from previous research on the “ancien time régime” (to around 1800) by R. Koselleck and A. Assmann. It examines representations of eternity in exempla, legends and other texts. The basic motif of these texts is the break with the time, i.e. the situation where the mortal man enters a different time regime (such as paradise) and spents there a seemingly a short time, while, in fact, hundreds of years have passed. The study describes the basic types of these tales (song of the bird, wedding, vision, etc.) and analyses their common motifs.

Keywords

EN

time; eternity; literature; exemplum

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 108
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 51-66
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kateřina Smyčková

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic