Literatura slavjan Franka Wollmana i russkaja literatura (Razmyšlenija po povodu novogo češskogo izdanija izvestnoj knigi).
| Title in English | The Literature of the Slavs and Russian literature |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Universalii russkoj literatury. 4 |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Frank Wollmans Literature of the Slavs and his conception of Slavonic literatures; the position of Russian literature; the comparative approach |
| Description | The author of the present article deals with the dominant parts of the newly re-edited book The Literature of the Slavs by the Czech historian and theorist of literature, folklorist and famous comparatist Frank Wollman (1888-1969). His link to his teacher Matija Murko (1861-1952), whose Russian study stay was substantial for his methodological orientation, connected him prevalently with South-Slavonic literatures, especially Slavonic folklore he collected in the Balkans and in Slovakia (fairy-tales published in 3 volumes only in the recent decade). F. Wollman understood Russian literature as an integral part of Mediterranean, European and Slavonic complex which has had both allochthonous and autochthonous bases. Its aesthetic rise is associated with the Western impact in the 18th century; though Wollman is not prepared to explicate this qualitative process in its complexity and depth and traditionally points out the French-German-Polish-“West-Russian” textual, genre and poetic influence, though he also grasped the North-South axis which has been of great importance. Thus, Wollman – although his main interest was not mainly Russian literature and he did not quite catch its „miraculous“ rise, placed it in a wider Slavonic comparative relations which are sometimes being forgotten even nowadays. |