Abstract: | The author analyses and Interprets space In a literary work, especially
in poetry. The author is interested in literary examples to
the extent that they constitute an expression of a certain outlook
upon world and its ordering. Thus, poetry is treated as an element
of the world structuring performed by the person who is experiencing
the world. This is the reason why the author inoludes an extensive
bibliography on history of painting.
The first chapter constitutes a theoretical introduction and discusses
the problems presented above. In the second chapter, the author
tries to interpret baroque space which is characterized by a peculiar
ethical marking, often expressed by means of a contrast between
th6 interior and the facade. This contrast constitutes an architectual
expression of fashion and morality opposition. The third
chapter, "Desolation of a big store" deals with space implied by the
modernistic poetry. The author draws the readers attention particularly
to the analysis of the idea of emptiness and nothingness in the
works of such leading modernists like Baudelaire and Carroll, and to
the consequences concerning the structure of one's personality ensuing
from this idea. The chapter comprises an introductory systematization
of the kinds of modernistic* space, as for example, spaee-desertt ice desolation, mirror, c irc le (mandala). In the fourth chapte
r , the author discusses the period o f surrealism influence,As the
t i t l e o f the chapter "Plow and blooming" 8uggest3, two basic innovations
in the formation and understanding of space are the fo l lo wing:
treatment o f space as a flow o f energy devoid o f static forms
but assuming accidental, dissoluble forms; constant process o f creation
o f new interiors; rela tiv isa tion o f the division into interior
and exterior which is characteristic fo r the structure o f world perception
(thus perception is considered a basic problem in endowing
the world with the form - according to R. K. Rillce especially). |