ARISTOTELOVA POETIKA V KONTEXTE JEZUITSKEJ TEÓRIE POETIKY A RÉTORIKY NA ÚZEMÍ DNEŠNÉHO SLOVENSKA V PRVEJ POLOVICI 18. STOROČIA

This study reflects Aristotle’s Poetics, in particular his concept of mimesis as a basic form of artistic representation in baroque Jesuit theoretical practice in the territory of today’s Slovakia. It focuses on an overlooked anonymous theoretical work entitled Commentarii in litteras humaniores, which was most probably one of the most important textbooks of poetics at the Jesuit grammar school in Skalica in the first half of the 18th century. Although it is not clear who the author of this valuable manuscript is, an analysis of its second book Observationes Poëticae, in particular its second part De Poësi in Specie and its sixth chapter De Drammatibus, and its comparison to the sixth to eighteenth chapters of Aristotle’s Poetics make us think that a reflection of the phenomenon of Aristotle’s concept of mimesis as a principle of creative representation was established in the territory of today’s Slovakia in the course of the first half of the 18th century.