Slovenska Literatura (Jun 2003)
“Spiritual Body” of Romantic Characters
Abstract
The study The Spirit and Body of Romantic Characters is an author´s going on in her research of the motives of flesh in poetry of five poets of Slovak literary Romanticism (S. Chalupka, A. Sládkovič, J. Botto, J. Kráľ, S. B. Hroboň). The author focused on the research of Slovak poetry of Romanticism in media of analysis of functional usage of motives of so called body of soul which refers to inner world of a man, to psychical and mental aspect of a human body. The analysis of such motives as the head, face, eyes, sight, mouth, voice, answers the question in which contexts they exist or are missed and what kind of semiotic burden they carry. If they are co-parts of a personally experienced body or they are cultural signs with objective national meanings. The interpretation of motives of a mental body shows how those motives reflect ideological and aesthetic differences in the works of particular poets. The differences in their reflection the parts of a mental body are based on the measure of demonstration whether physical or mental part of the characters or if it concerns a particular individual person or it is just emblematic representation of general numbers of virtues.
