Slovenská literatúra

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Authors: Albert Lučanský

Review

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Authors: Bronislava Navarová

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Authors: Lenka Rišková

Occasional poetry is an important part of literary production by Bohuslav Tablic (1769 – 1832). It was reflected on by the literary historian Rudo Brtáň (1907 – 1998) in his works focused on literature written at the turn of the 19th century or in his monograph Bohuslav Tablic (1769 – 1832). Život a dielo/Bohuslav Tablic (1769 – 1832). Life and Work published in 1974. He did not exclude the occasional poetry as a peculiar or even inferior group of writings without a notable message but he attributed it an important function and a significant role in forming the poetic profile of Bohuslav Tablic as well as Slovak literature of that time. The synthesis of Brtáň´s assessments of B. Tablic´s occasional poetry along with the results of the contemporary analyses of individual poetic texts form the basis for this paper that concentrates on defining the development of Tablic´s poetic means of expression in this particular type of poetic production featuring a distinct updating dimension, where the up-to-date nature alone was a guarantee of certain attractiveness. Although the results of the contemporary research make it necessary to reassess some of R. Brtáň´s conclusions, several of his findings, especially the starting position of respect for occasional poetry, remain an important impulse for further literary historical analyses and interpretations of Tablic´s work as a whole.

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Authors: Miloslav Vojtech

The paper reflects on the history of literary translation and the interliterary relations presented in the monograph by Rudo Brtáň titled Bohuslav Tablic (1769 – 1832). Život a dielo (1974)/ Bohuslav Tablic (1769 – 1832). Life and Work (1974). This is the first complex monograph written on B. Tablic in the historiography of Slovak literary history and it is closely related to R. Brtáň´s systematic interest in the history of Slovak literature of the national revival period. B. Tablic is reflected on as a pioneer of literary translation in Slovakia and his translations as well as his own literary production are placed in a wider interliterary context. The paper analyzes and assesses Brtáň´s approach to the issues of literary historical and translatological reflection of Tablic´s translations from German, English and French, it sees his translations and his own production in the Czecho-Slovak context, it maps the range of the authors translated and their links to the literary aesthetical preferences of that time. Brtáň´s monograph is seen critically here, especially in contrast with newer literary historical findings and research into the history of literary translation. The paper points out to several historically constrained assessments of Tablic´s translations (translations of the works by J. A. Hermes a J. J. Spalding), verifies Brtáň´s inaccuracies when identifying the original texts of individual translations and translation adaptations (interconnections between ballads by G. A. Bürger and Tablic´s production, the issue of Tablic´s mistake about the authorship of the ballad by T. Percy The Hermit of Warkworth), in addition, Brtáň´s analyses of his book translations (Anglické múzy v česko-slovenském oděvu/English Muses in Czecho-Slovak Clothing) and the translation of Nicolas Boileau´s Umění básnířské /The Art of Poetry are reflected on against a background of recent research into this subject.

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Authors: Martin Braxatoris

The goal of the paper is to explore the forms of calendar poetry written by Juraj Palkovič (1769 – 1850) and to assess the reliability of the related research conclusions drawn by Rudo Brtáň (1907 – 1998). The starting point is Palkovič´s calendar edition Větší a zvláštnější nový i starý kalendář/A bigger and more interesting new and old calendar, the individual editions of which had more or less permanent poetic sections in it: in the calendar part so-called poems under the months, in the weather lore poems related to the season and in the insert of the calendar so-called humorous „fairy-tales“. Although the texts in question were analyzed by several researchers, in particular by Rudo Brtáň, the existing findings and conclusions require at least verification, further expansion or, if necessary, corrections. The paper focuses on the thematic and motivic, rhetoric and poetic and prosodic aspects of the original texts and offers complex processing of them in the scope of all the editions of the calendar (1805 – 1848). From the viewpoint of prosody, poetology and textology (the issue of the author attribution) the paper pays attention to classicisism or roccoco style poems about four seasons. The poems under the months are used to study the development of Palkovič´s creative personality, it takes notice of the dynamics of the themes, the rhetoric, poetic and prosodic aspects. The literary motifs monitored throughout Palkovič´s calendar poetry include the motif of a woman and the motif of alcohol. The conclusions show that the results of Brtáň´s research in this area are still valuable, although rather selectively. They are invaluable for contemporary researchers when trying to orient themselves in the wide resource base, however, it shows that the original texts require new complex reading, which raises a number of questions still unanswere