Problematika prostora v balladach "Svadebnye rubashki" K.Ja. Erbena i "Svetlana" V.A. Zhukovskogo
| Title in English | The Problematics of Space in the Ballads "The Wedding Shirts" by K. J. Erben and "Svetlana" by V.A. Zhukovsky |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This presentation deals with two works, the plot of which comes from a quite well-known and in the beginning of the 19th century European literatures widespread material. The story of an unhappy girl endangered by her dead lover is popular mainly due to the ballad "Lenora" by a mid-18th century German writer, Bürger. Since then the subject has become popular and has been used in various forms in European balladry of the Romantic era (Erben, Mickiewicz, Zhukovsky, Katenin, etc.). The ballads The Wedding Shirts and Svetlana were chosen not just because they treat a similar subject, but also because of their conciliatory ending. It is the desire for reconciliation at the end of the ballads that could, in a polemic with the ideas of subjective romanticism, hint at the texts joining the general phenomenon, which in some works is accepted to be called literary Biedermeier. In this presentation, we will compare selected ballads in terms of the way in which space is constructed in the text, what motivic components create it, what role and function they play within the fictional world of both works, how individual characters move in the world and what relationships they enter into with it. This approach will allow us to grasp the most important similarities and differences between the two works and will serve to clarify our understanding of the phenomenon of literary Biedermeier in the literary process of Czech and Russian Romanticism. |
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