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Hankova verze jihoslovanské hrdinské epiky
Hanka’s version of South Slavic heroic epic

Author(s): Dalibor Tureček
Subject(s): Cultural history, Poetry, Serbian Literature, Translation Studies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Folk poetry; South Slavic poetry; Václav Hanka; Vuk Karadžić;

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the translation of the collections of poems by Vuk Karadžić, translated and edited by Václav Hanka in 1817 under the title Prostonárodní srbská Musa do Čech převedená. Hanka selected from the original collection 8 Serbian poems and added two Russian texts. Thetranslator combined various kinds of poetics and themes. He included a heroic poem, heroically comic poem, and lyric in the anacreontic style as well. He linked classicist with the romantic tendencies.

  • Issue Year: 18/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 40-55
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Czech