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The Prague Legends in the Poems of Sebestian Hnevkovsky
Vítová, Andrea
The gripping stories of the old-Prague legends inhabited by supernatural beings and bringing moral advice, gave to the balladic poems of Sebestian Hnevkovsky, the autor of the Enlightment period, a suitable base for the travestying interpretations satirically focused on the contemporary society.\nThe tales of the princess Drahomira or of the ”devil´s“ obelisk at Vyšehrad, composed by Hnevkovsky in the early 19th century (i. e. in the epoch of the Puchmajer´s anthologies) were focused on the ordinary city people. The content reminding of the well-known stories and the simple way of narration enabled the author to fulfil his intention: to address a wide audience of readers and to amuse them. In his later works from the 1840s Hnevkovsky inclined namely to the genre of historical legend and to the romantic aspects of the Prague legends. However, even in this later poems (Šemík or Podvyšehradská hlubina) he didn´t give up the methods and motives characteristic for the haunted tales from the early 19th century that attracted attention of readers.
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Historical transformations in the function of Prague demonological legends
Němcová, Tereza ; Janeček, Petr (advisor) ; Dědovský, Daniel (referee)
This paper is dedicated to phenomenon of Prague legends, as they were captued in various folklore and literaly forms from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The aim of my analysis are not only authentical folklore collectings, but also their literary adaptations. I will also capture the penetration of these collectings into another artistic and pop culture genres and forms. The aim of this paper are not only transformations of topics and motives in Prague demonological legends, but also a dynamic movement of these texts between oral, artistic and popular culture. The main objective will be also to outline the historical development in the transformations of the functions of these legends. In a few centuries, they transformed from the for local society believable stories with a lot of social and cultural functions to primarily entertaining texts of our time, which, however, still may attribute an educational function; part of their theme survives in a form of so-called contemporary legends, myths and rumors.
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