Open AccessSvětelné a barevné ladění Nervalovy Sylvie
Author(s) -
Richard Změlík
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
bohemistyka
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.11
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2956-4425
pISSN - 1642-9893
DOI - 10.14746/bo.2022.2.4
Subject(s) - romance , complement (music) , dream , perspective (graphical) , focus (optics) , set (abstract data type) , contrast (vision) , parallelism (grammar) , computer science , composition (language) , cognitive science , linguistics , psychology , artificial intelligence , literature , art , philosophy , physics , chemistry , neuroscience , optics , biochemistry , programming language , complementation , gene , phenotype
In my paper I focus on motifs of colours and lights in a short romantic prose Sylvie by Gerard de Nerval. Using the tool of dispersion analysis I explain the ways in which these motifs influence the compositional principles of the prose. In this respect, I pay special attention to two of these principles which could be considered crucial elements for the composition of the prose: contrast and parallelism. From a functional perspective, as I demonstrate further, both principles complement each other in various segments of the text in many sophisticated ways. As a result, it should be stipulated that these compositional principles are interconnected with the set of various motifs and together with them contribute to the global dream-like atmosphere of the novel.