Institute of Slovak Literature
Topic
Images of Masculine Vitality in Slovak Romantic Literature
PhD. program
Slovak literature
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Ivana Taranenková, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Arts of Comenius University
Annotation
The subject of the research will be the concept of vitality in Slovak Romantic literature about contemporary literary representations of masculinity. Based on the analysis of texts by Slovak Romantic authors and their setting in contemporary aesthetic, philosophical and social contexts, the dissertation will examine the relationship between vitality and the ideal of masculinity in Slovak Romanticism. It will also show how these ideas related to conventional/contemporary norms of masculinity and how they contributed to the literary imagery of Slovak Romanticism. The methodological starting point of the dissertation will be research on Romanticism in the national and international environment, as well as the impulses of gender studies (men's studies).