Institute of Slovak Literature
Topic
Images of death in selected texts of old Slovak Literature
PhD. program
Slovak literature
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Lenka Rišková, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Arts of Comeius University
Annotation
The motif of death is one of the dominant elements in the literary production of the older periods of development. Death is one of the most important moments in human existence, both religiously and psychologically, and its literary reflection is therefore a valuable source of knowledge about the way people think in different historical periods and stages of their lives. At the same time, the functional, genre and poetic syncretism of older literary monuments makes it possible to trace different ways of dealing with them, depending on the time of their creation or their attachment to particular aesthetic/poetic systems, but also on their genre classification, function or authorial intention. The aim of the research is to map the literary representation of this phenomenon and to trace its transformations in the literary-historical development from the earliest times to the beginning of the 19th century.