Modemist Variations ofthe Ballad as a Genre

The ballad as a genre represents a relatively frequent lyric form in the poetry of the authors of Slovak literature. On the one hand it signals continuity of the Slovak Romantic tradition (J. Kráľ, J. Botto, S. Chalupka) and through the social ballad (in the works of V. Roy and M. Rázus) refers to the works of the previous Realist-Parnasist generation (S. H. Vajanský, P. O. Hviezdoslav), on the other hand it is the evidence of the Modernist way of understanding literary type syncretism and ap...