Institute of Slovak Literature
Topic
Nature in modernism
PhD. program
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Dana Hučková, CSc.
Contact:
Receiving school
Filozofická fakulta UK
Annotation
The thesis aims to explore the cultural function of nature in Slovak literature (with a time frame of 1890-1925, in the poetological line of naturalism - symbolism - modernism), the environmental consciousness of modernist literature and its reactions to contemporary changes in the relationship between man and nature (industrialisation, war). The methodological starting point will be the theories of ecocriticism and especially ecopoetics (écopoetique, écrire la nature /writing nature) applied to the study of modernism. Research will focus on representations of nature (modernist imagination of nature, modernist sensibility to nature) and their relation to religion, myth, ethical problems, categories of time and space, and the genre register.