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Poetika príležitostnej poézie Jána Hollého
The Poetics of Occasional Poetry by Ján Hollý

Author(s): Peter Mráz
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Slovanský ústav and Euroslavica
Keywords: genre development; classicism; Slovak literature

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the occasional poetry of Ján Hollý. It supports the idea of the author to disguise the occasional character of his poetry in order to produce the work of aesthetically valuable texts. The suggested hypothesis is expanded by the assumption that Hollý fulfilled this intention using the contrastive construction of the texts of his occasional poems; creating the subject involved in depicted topics; and overcoming the occasion which prompted the birth of a particular text. The aim of our work is to find out if these ways of suppressing the occasional character of the poems actually applied in Hollý’s poetry and if these ways helped him create aesthetically valuable texts.

  • Issue Year: LXXXI/2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 291-314
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Slovak