Vyšehrad : vybrané rysy singulárního stylu historického eposu Julia Zeyera
Vyšehrad : selected features of the singular style(s) in Julius Zeyer's historical epic

Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on the language and style of the historical epic Vyšehrad by the Czech writer Julius Zeyer (1841–1901). The paper presents an analysis of selected aspects of the singular style of the individual poems of the epic, and attempts to demonstrate the stylistic (in)coherence of the epic cycle through comparisons of selected linguistic features of the text; i.e. a situation in which all the stylemata in the text function in a complex way, both in interplay (the style of the text is coherent) and in contrast (the style of the text is (un)intentionally incoherent). The comparison of selected stylometric properties of individual poems of Vyšehrad has shown that there are no significant (quantitative) differences in selected linguistic properties of the texts in relation to the uniformly conceived thematic construction of the epic. All the poems of the historical and mythicizing epic are characterized by a linguistically coherent and uniform style, reflecting only slight disproportions in the length of specific texts.

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