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RHYTHMICAL AND THEMATIC STRUCTURES IN THE CROATIAN CHURCH SLAVIC LIFE OF SAINT WENCESLAUS.

The first Slavic version of the mediaeval Life of St Wenceslaus (FSL) offers myriad opportunities for scholarly research on a number of levels, rhetorical, stylistic and thematic. The current article seeks to coordinate an understanding of how the formal rhythmical structures of the vita enhance the...

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Published in:Slovo (05836255) no. 72; pp. 1 - 47
Main Author: CRNKOVIĆ, Denis
Format: Article
Published: Slovo 2022
Subjects:
Croats
Themes in art
Job performance
Martyrs
Hagiography
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        Biblical Thematic Clues
        Croatian Church Slavic Life of Wenceslaus
        Isocolic Principle
        Mediaeval Slavic Rhetorics
        Oral Textual Performance
        hrvatska crkvenoslavenska inačica Života sv. Većeslava
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        srednjovjekovna slavenska retorika
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        The first Slavic version of the mediaeval Life of St Wenceslaus (FSL) offers myriad opportunities for scholarly research on a number of levels, rhetorical, stylistic and thematic. The current article seeks to coordinate an understanding of how the formal rhythmical structures of the vita enhance the work’s thematic material. In this regard it is shown that the FSL is composed in rhythmically structured prose as described in R. Picchio’s theory of the isocolic principle and that the rhythmical patterns of the texts play a significant role in both enhancing the oral performance aspects of the work and, in turn, in highlighting the work’s themes and messages. Including both the exposition of Wenceslaus as a good and saintly prince and martyr, and the implied exhortation to the listeners to follow the example of Christian behaviour, these theologically oriented and biblically inspired leitmotifs are skilfully applied to the events of Wenceslaus’pious life. From the rhetorical and compositional point of view it is shown that the interplay of isocolic rhythms with their contrasting patterns enhances the presentation of the themes through artistic juxtapositions and contrasts, parallels, disjunctions, and similar rhetorical devices. It is concluded that contrary to some assessments of the FSL as a somewhat ‘primitive’ composition, the Life is an artistic complex of Christian themes and motifs, artfully presented.
        Prva slavenska inačica srednjovjekovnoga Života sv. Većeslava nudi mogućnosti za razna retorička, stilistička i tematska istraživanja. U ovome se radu predstavlja kako formalne ritmičke strukture obogaćuju tematski svijet Života sv. Većeslava. Pokazuje se da je Život sastavljen od ritmički strukturirane proze, kako je opisana u teoriji izokoličnog principa Richarda Picchija, te da ritmički obrasci igraju važnu ulogu u pojačavanju izvedbenih aspekata djela i, obratno, u isticanju njegove tematike. Uključujući i sam opis sv. Većeslava kao dobroga i svetoga kneza i mučenika, koji se slušateljima istodobno predstavlja kao primjer kršćanskoga ponašanja, ovi se teološki orijentirani i biblijski nadahnuti lajtmotivi vješto primjenjuju na događaje iz njegova pobožnoga života. S retoričkoga i kompozicijskoga gledišta pokazuje se da uzajamno djelovanje kontrastnih ritmičkih obrazaca i izokoličnih struktura poboljšava obradu tema posredstvom različitih jukstapozicija, kontrasta, paralelizama, disjunkcija i sličnih retoričkih figura. Za razliku od ocjena da je Život sv. Većeslava prilično primitivan tekst, zaključuje se da je riječ o složenom i vješto napisanom književnom djelu.
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