HVIEZDOSLAV – BÁSNIK VEĽKÝCH PARADOXOV A PARADOXNEJ VEĽKOSTI

• Authors: Rédey Zoltán

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Hviezdoslav – a poet of great paradoxes and paradoxical greatness

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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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.

Keywords

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PAVOL ORSZÁGH HVIEZDOSLAV; REALISM; FOLK ORIENTATION; PEASANT THEME; VERBAL EXTENSIVENESS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 592 – 613

Contributors

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Rédey Zoltán

• Ústav filologických štúdií, Pedagogická fakulta Univerzity Komenského, Šoltésovej 4, 811 08 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2021.68.6.2