KRAJINA JAKO MYTOLOGICKÝ PROSTOR: PŘEDZPĚV KE KOLLÁROVĚ SLÁVY DCEŘI
LANDSCAPE AS MYTHOLOGICAL SPACE: PŘEDZPĚV (OUVERTURE) IN KOLLÁR´S SLÁVY DCERA

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with conceptualization of the space in the key poem of Czech patriotic romantism, in Předzpěv (Ouverture) in Kollár´s Slávy dcera. The poem takes place in context of previous texts – as pretexts we can recognize Byron´s Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage, mme de Stael´s Germania, Heinrich luden´s Geschichten des teutschen Volke and the imaginary landscape of the Old testament. As we can see, some geographical data (that were a part of ideological a literary polemic about the character of Middle European culture) were integrated and then modified here. Communicative strategy (that looks like objective story about the deep past) is in the real something like adaptation of „ground plan“ of another great story and then filling of that „ground plan“ with many details that suggest the important role of the Old Slavs in cultural development of („desert“) Middle Europe. Similar strategy is characteristic for another texts too, e. g. Jirásek´s Staré pověsti české (The Old Czech legends), published 50 years later. The story presents here not the objective reality – more likely it presents the „mental map“ in which are constituated the collective ideas about the space as a frame for the self-understanding and identity of Czech nation.

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