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Milota Zdirad Polak's Sublime of Nature
Ibrahim, Robert ; Šmahelová, Hana (advisor) ; Hlobil, Tomáš (referee) ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (referee)
Sublime of Nature (1819), a lyrical poem in six cantos and with more than 1800 lines, written by a Czech poet and Austrian officer Milota Zdirad Polák (1788-1856), was at the time of its birth celebrated as the greatest Czech poem, its author labelled a genius and compared to the greatest European poets of the 18th Century. However, in the following decades Polák was gradually falling into oblivion, with literary historians of the end of the 19th and the beginning of 20th Century viewing Sublime of Nature as an unreadable work and its author as a non-poet. This attitude was also true for the 20th Century. However, in recent years some independent attempts have been made to bring Sublime of Nature back to both wider public and scholarly attention. The following dissertation joins these efforts. The aim of this dissertation is not an evaluation of Polák and his work; it is an attempt at interpretation of the text based on comparison of two versions of the poem (book and periodical) and on literary-historical setting of the work. Although Sublime of Nature appeared during a transient era of Czech literature characterized by its syncretism, this dissertation tries to relate Sublime of Nature to the context of (classicist) poetics and aesthetics of the 18th Century and in case of any borderline phenomena always...
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Verse theory in trace quantities
Ibrahim, Robert ; Plecháč, Petr
This study focuses on versological interpretations in selected secondary school textbooks. The authors comment on these interpretations and present their own suggestions for interpreting versological material for secondary school pupils.
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Mácha’s iamb and devices to weaken the conflict between language and meter
Ibrahim, Robert ; Sgallová, K.
The paper follows up the results of structuralist verse theory (Roman Jakobson, Miroslav Červenka). The analysis of Mácha’s iamb used in his poem Máj (May, 1836) is based on observation of the relationship between the chosen meter and the language, and mainly on the explanation of the conflict between those two, which occurs when the first (therefore stressed) syllable of a polysyllabic word matches the weak (e.g. odd) position of the verse line. There are 87% of such lines in Máj, but in most of these cases the stressed syllable is occupying first verse position (or the position subsequent to caesura), which in Czech versification is seen as an acceptable alternative to the monosyllabic iambic incipit. Worthy of note is the morphological organisation of the unmetrical lines as well (such as preposition or prefix occupying weak position) – the preference of particular configurations may be seen as being the part of the author’s individual style.
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Resonances of Mácha. Fourth Congress of World Czech Literary Studies: Other Czech Literature (?)
Piorecký, Karel ; Křivánek, Vladimír ; Charypar, Michal ; Fořt, Bohumil ; Hrbata, Zdeněk ; Ibrahim, Robert ; Koten, Jiří ; Sládek, Ondřej ; Sgallová, K. ; Šerlaimova, S. ; Berkes, T. ; Budagova, L. ; Čolakova, Ž. ; Galmiche, X. ; Grigorov, D. ; Melnyčenko, I. ; Procházka, M. ; Valcerová, A.
Arranged every five years at the initiative of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Institute of Czech Literature, the congress brought together some 150 researchers from all over the world this year. Discussions over “otherness” in Czech literature were divided into four subject areas. In view of the anniversary of Karel Hynek Mácha’s birth in 2010, one of the proceedings was called Resonances of Mácha. The studies included in this collection focus primarily on the work of poets and prose writers whose work forms part of Mácha’s legacy and derives inspiration from him. Another way to understand the importance of Mácha’s work is offered by contributions that place it in the context of European and particularly Central European romanticism. The opportunity also presents itself to consider the influence of interpretations of his texts on the formation of Prague literary studies structuralism.
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