Colour and colourity as an iconic and symbolic principle of world modeling in fiction Cover Image

Farba a farebnosť ako ikonicko-symbolický princíp modelovania sveta v prozaických textoch
Colour and colourity as an iconic and symbolic principle of world modeling in fiction

Author(s): Michaela Čurlíková
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Novel, Theory of Literature
Published by: Lingvokulturologické a prekladateľsko-tlmočnícke centrum excelentnosti pri Filozofickej fakulte Prešovskej university v Prešove (LPTCE)
Keywords: chromatic compositional principle;symbol;colour;chromatic designations

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the occurrence of chromatic denomination in literary works of Jozef Cíger Hronský. Within the lexical research of given literary writings I established possible distribution of four groups of chromatic designations: 1. motivated; 2. unmotivated – neutral; 3. unmotivated – metaphorical and 4. metaphoric-symbolic colouring denomination. The aesthetic features of colours’ denotations point out to the basic symbolic antithesis between black and white colour, the sacral and the profane, and to the colour reflection of some archetypal motifs in given novels.

  • Issue Year: 6/2015
  • Issue No: 21-22
  • Page Range: 12-16
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Slovak