Slovak Romanticism as Literary and
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Словашкият романтизъм като литературна и културна идентичност
Slovak Romanticism as Literary and Cultural Identity

Author(s): Valeria Todorova
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Recent History (1900 till today), Slovak Literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: messianism; Slavic mutuality; standard language; syncretism; ethnography; cult

Summary/Abstract: The Slovak Romantic Movement arises in a time when classicism is in its decline in European art and philosophical idealism and rational knowledge are giving way to intuition, spontaneity and wild imagination. Modern aesthetic and artistic impulses gain popularity in Slovakia in the1830s and meet with a positive response from the young generation off students in Bratislava, Levoиa and Kežmarok. The gradual transition to the aesthetics and poetics of romanticism in the end of the1930s and the beginning of the 1940s brings about a number of metamorphoses in the cultural-historical consciousness of the Slovakromantic author, who, in the spirit of Štúr’s ideal for “unity of spirit andmatter”, creates distinctive romantic norms. He is inspired both byintuitively-emotional impulses and by his own historical destiny, by folk literature, by national idiosyncrasies and the need for literary, cultural and spiritual identification.

  • Issue Year: 24/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 121-129
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bulgarian