Balogh Zoltán (szerk.): Neograd 2017. Tanulmányok a 70 éves Praznovszky Mihály tiszteletére - A Dornyay Béla Múzeum Évkönyve 40. (Salgótarján, 2017)

Irodalomtörténet - Fűzfa Balázs: Grammatikai metaforák Arany János néhány balladájában

BALÁZS FŰZFA

GRAMMATICAL METAPHORS IN SOME OF JÁNOS ARANY'S BALLADS

János Arany definitely liked the footnotes he had written to his poems; both the directing and the explaining ones. [...] He used method of printed highlighting with an extremely fine talent, which is rare even now, he highlighted, marked the stress, and demanded attention.”20 - stated Zoltán Panek.

These breaks force the reader to reread and reinterpret. They make him admit that the message of the text continuously oscillates, moves and changes dynamically. It never happens in an inevitable surrounding, and even the meaning of the text is not clean-cut. 'Unreachable certainty1. It is certain that it exists, but we can never learn what it really means. Since meaning is never finite, it can never be described with the certainty of the Pythagorean Theorem. It is more like the Bolyai-Lobachevskian Geometry. We believe in its existence.

20 PANEK, Zoltán, Sorsvonal és sóvárgás = P. Z., Kihagyott szívdobbanás, Bukarest, Kriterion, 1985, 63-82, cyt: 75.

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