Iconization, diagrammatization and allegorization of suffering in Slovak and North-American culture-forming texts

Javorčíková, Jana, 1974- Iconization, diagrammatization and allegorization of suffering in Slovak and North-American culture-forming texts / Jana Javorčíková. -- In response to the American philosopher-scientist Charles Sanders Peirce, who explored three types of iconic signs (images, diagrams and metaphors), present-day scholars, among them Jørgen Dines Johansen, recognize three ways that a text may be iconized: imaginative iconization, diagrammatization and allegorization. The comparative study takes a close look at how religious and secular suffering is represented and iconized in selected culture-forming literary and political texts of Slovak and North-American provenience. These texts include Slovak Romantic-national poetry and poetry of the Realistic period (by Pavol Országh-Hviezdoslav and Samo Chalupka and poetry and prose of the American Colonial and Romantic-Early National Period (Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Maya Angelou). We will defend the argument that suffering is a significant and culture-forming motif in each narrative; however, it plays a very different role in the Slavic and North American cultures. Whereas in the Slovak literary discourse, suffering is iconized as an unchangeable, permanent “ordeal”, the American literary discourse interprets suffering within the framework of the “American Dream”, as a challenge leading to a necessary change and resulting in wellbeing.

In The iconization of suffering in literary and interdisciplinary perspectives Chalupský, Petr. -- Nitra : Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, 2019. -- 155 s.. -- ISBN ISBN 978-80-558-1467-4. -- S. 63-78

1. utrpenie 2. slovenská literatúra 3. americká literatúra 4. príspevky v zborníku

I. The iconization of suffering in literary and interdisciplinary perspectives. -- S. 63-78
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