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Iconization, diagrammatization and allegorization of suffering in Slovak and North-American culture-forming texts

  1. TitleIconization, diagrammatization and allegorization of suffering in Slovak and North-American culture-forming texts
    Author infoJana Javorčíková
    Author Javorčíková Jana 1974- (100%) UMBFF06 - Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky
    Source document The iconization of suffering in literary and interdisciplinary perspectives. S. 63-78. - Nitra : Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, 2019 / Chalupský Petr ; Waldnerová Jana
    Keywords utrpenie - suffering   slovenská literatúra - Slovak literature   americká literatúra - American literature  
    Form. Descr.príspevky v zborníku - proceedings papers
    LanguageEnglish
    CountrySlovak Republic
    AnnotationIn response to the American philosopher-scientist Charles Sanders Peirce, who explored three types of iconic signs (images, diagrams and metaphors), present-day scholars, among them Jørgen Dines Johansen, recognize three ways that a text may be iconized: imaginative iconization, diagrammatization and allegorization. The comparative study takes a close look at how religious and secular suffering is represented and iconized in selected culture-forming literary and political texts of Slovak and North-American provenience. These texts include Slovak Romantic-national poetry and poetry of the Realistic period (by Pavol Országh-Hviezdoslav and Samo Chalupka and poetry and prose of the American Colonial and Romantic-Early National Period (Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Maya Angelou). We will defend the argument that suffering is a significant and culture-forming motif in each narrative; however, it plays a very different role in the Slavic and North American cultures. Whereas in the Slovak literary discourse, suffering is iconized as an unchangeable, permanent “ordeal”, the American literary discourse interprets suffering within the framework of the “American Dream”, as a challenge leading to a necessary change and resulting in wellbeing.
    Public work category AED
    No. of Archival Copy8926
    Catal.org.BB301 - Univerzitná knižnica Univerzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici
    Databasexpca - PUBLIKAČNÁ ČINNOSŤ
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