TITANISM: ON ONE BOOK BY VÁCLAV ČERNÝ
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23366729.2025.2.1" target="_blank" >10.14712/23366729.2025.2.1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
TITANISM: ON ONE BOOK BY VÁCLAV ČERNÝ
Original language description
The article deals with the concept of titanism in Václav Černý's book Essai sur le titanisme dans la poésie romantique occidentale entre 1815 et 1850 from 1935. It analyses Černý's understanding of titanism in the framework of his historical approach to European thought. It points to Šalda's criticism of the 'ideographic' nature of Černý's approach, and uses this criticism to provide a more formal grasp of titanism as a literary topos characterized by a specific sequence of five components: an apostrophe of a god, a statement of his weakness, a description of harm, a titanic gesture, and a promise of action. It argues that it is the specific constellation of these components, which is the source of the pathos experienced by the examined poems, rather than the Protestant content seen by Černý. The article concludes by pointing out the specific historic and political context of Černý's writing, which encouraged him to enhance the protestant dimensions of the problem as well as the ideological dependency on the writing of T. Garrigue Masaryk.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Svět literatury
ISSN
0862-8440
e-ISSN
2336-6729
Volume of the periodical
2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
72
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
1-24
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105025803546