On the possibilities of quantitative corpus analysis of the verse of the Slovak variation of Surrealism (Introduction to the problematics)

Abstract

The aim of the study is to present and specify the possibilities of quantitative-corpus analysis of verse, which was characteristic for the work of the representatives of the avant-garde movement of Slovak surrealism (Rudolf Fábry, Július Lenko, Vladimír Reisel, Štefan Žáry and others). The study contains three chapters. The first one summarizes the previous research on the verses of Slovak surrealism and characterizes its general features. Then, isolated attempts at quantitative analysis of surrealist verse are presented and critically evaluated. The conclusion presents the possibilities of quantitative research on surrealist verse in digital processing, with the need to create a digital corpus of poetic texts that could be used for the analysis of a variety of versiological problems. The aim should be not only the digitisation of surrealist texts, but of the whole complex of Slovak poetry, so that selected problems can also be studied in their interrelations and from developmental aspects. From the methodological point of view, the study follows the current research in the field of quantitative versology.

Keywords

• slovak surrealism
• verse
• versology
• quantitative analysis
• text corpus