Kodni sistem Slovenska knjizevnost Avtorji Urednistvo <-> bralci |
Jezik in slovstvo Povzetki |
Jezik in slovstvo Kazalo Kazalo letnika |
Tomaz Sajovic
Preseren, historizem in argumentacija
Preseren, Historism and Argumentation
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Slovene literature of the period developed in similar social circumstances. Slovene narrative prose of the second half of the 19th century has a more or less split structure. Texts frequently consist of a historistically (rhetorically) designed introductory part, characterised by an argumentative text pattern of the narrative thesis, more or less committed to the national, educational or moral needs (i.e. the narrator's comments), and the narration itself, which is designed --- less rhetorically than the introduction --- in a narrative text pattern and illustrates the thesis (it is no coincidence that great popularity is enjoyed at that time by the extreme version of such narrative, the so-called framework narrative).
A comparison of Murn's poem Zima (Winter, 1900), which is done exclusively in a descriptive text pattern --- modern discourse studies find that this pattern is usually included into other text patterns (e.g. narrative and argumentative), which implies its relatively dependent role in texts (it features on its own mainly in technical descriptions and instructions for use) --- without explicated or implicated mental and ideational content, with Presern's sonnets reveals their patent historist design. The sonnet, which first culminated in the Renaissance period, became very popular again in the historist period. In its purest rendering --- bipartite in form and content, with the final idea clearly expressed in an argumentative way by an example in the quatrains --- it is an almost prototypical confirmation of what is characteristic of historist design. Presern's idea of sonnetism, closely connected with the national idea, also confirms the social role that it played.
The article emphasises the shaping of the modern awareness of linguistic shaping of literary texts brought about by the historist functionalisation of past stylistic forms and procedures, and the resulting significance of linguistic research into the language of literary works.