| dc.description.abstract | The author of the paper investigates the character of secondary school students’ literary creation that appears in
the students’ periodicals published by some Slovak Gymnasia. This type of creation is, in literary history,
referred to as a juvenile creation. The author of the paper pays attention, first of all, to relations of the
juvenile creation, school literary education and the teacher of literature.
The analysis of the development of the student’s personality, of his motivation to write, of his inclination to
express himself by means of the written word shows four motivic sources. They are: a) individual selfeducation; b)
emotional and psychosocial determination of the secondary student’s personality; c) an enjoyment.
The author of the paper concentrates his attention especially on a dependence of the first literary attempts on
previous and present reading. Analysing samples of the students’ literary texts the author of the paper finds
motivations in psychosocial prestige, pedagogical quidance of the teacher and in the principle of „precending to
be grown ups”. On the basis of metatextual procedures used by students in their own literary attempts, the author
of the paper outhlines the typology of juvenile writers (a spontaneous, creative writer, a paraphraser, an
imitator, a collector, a textator etc.).
In conclusion the author of the study investigates genre characteristics of the juvenile creation, then the
relation of lyric and epic principles, the attitude of students to classical literature and literature for
children, the compositional models of the juvenile prose and the problem of fiction and reality. The paper has a
glossarial character and contains m any interesting observations on stylistic, semiotic and sociologic principles
of the literary creation of juvenile writers. | en_EN |
