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Poetry of the first three decades of the 19th century. Starting points and conditions of creation and its genre composition in the work of the enlightenment poetic generation
Vítová, Andrea ; Sgallová, Květa (advisor) ; Bekešová, Martina (referee) ; Tureček, Dalibor (referee)
The PhD thesis Poetry of the First Three Decades of the 19th Century. Starting Points and Conditions of Creation and Its Genre Composition in the Work of the Enlightenment Poetic Generation deals with poetry of the Czech national revival starting from appearance of Puchmajer's poetic school stemming from Enlightenment classicism to pieces of work created under the growing influence of romanticism in the 30ies of the 19th century. The goal of this thesis is to follow the development, transformations and mutual action of the most important lyrical and epic genres of revival poetry, in view of the contemporary role of writing in verse and of the specific conditions of creation as well as reception of poetic work in the Czech language. It assumes and verifies on specific texts that for revival authors, writing of Czech poems is especially an expression of patriotic efforts; talent and literary erudition are not a necessary predisposition of creation. The thesis analyses poetic texts and generalises the results in the form of basic features of revival poetry. Based on transformations of individual genres, the conclusions of this thesis emphasize the principal advancement which occurred in poetic creation of the national revival in the 20ies of the 19th century. Aspiring of the poems to high, more demanding...
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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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