From Crisis to Cosmos and Beyond: Tears in Byron, Novalis and Mácha.

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From Crisis to Cosmos and Beyond: Tears in Byron, Novalis and Mácha.

Original language description

Discussing the uses of tears as literary themes and poetic figures, this article focuses on three poets: Byron, Novalis and Karel Hynek Mácha, a leading representative of Czech Romanticism. The literary links between the former two authors were established in Mácha?s reading and writings: his chef-d??uvre, a lyrical-epic tale May (1836) owes much to Byron?s epic tales and the Third Canto of Childe Harold?s Pilgrimage (1816), while his philosophical fragments in prose were influenced by Novalis? works: his poetry (Hymns to the Night, 1798) and novel Henry von Ofterdingen (1802). The article compares the political, spiritual and aesthetic implications of tears in the above works, foregrounding diverse connections between representations of the universe and the intensity of human emotions. Using Georges Bataille?s notions of ?restrictive? and ?general economy,? these connections are interpreted in the framework of the general ?play of energy? and its analogical patterns represented both o

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

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Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Litteraria Pragensia

ISSN

0862-8424

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Volume of the periodical

22

Issue of the periodical within the volume

43

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

82-94

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