Svět z vět Daniely Hodrové
Sentence worlds of Daniela Hodrová

Summary/Abstract: In Daniela Hodrová’s novel Točité věty (Winding Sentences), long sentences conspicuously act as an integrating factor, facilitating multi-thematic blending (a characteristic feature of postmodern prose) within single sentence units (i.e. loose sentence structures). At the same time they are a suitable medium for the distinctive rhythmic-intonational division of sentences into spoken segments, which acts as a natural counterweight to more complex syntax in cases involving multifold insertion of clauses. In Daniela Hodrová’s prose work, particularly Točité věty, this tendency has made itself felt in both of the most frequently used ways of structuring long sentences: in ongoing parallel placement and entwinement of clauses and clause segments — and in the layering of clause units based on the continuous insertion of (main and subordinate) clauses. In both cases this prose moves away from ordinary syntax in favour of semantic accumulation and dynamics, which the author uses to imprint the seal of her distinctive stylistic colouring onto her sentences.

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