Az Ómagyar Mária-siralom és ami körülötte lehetett : Emlékezés Pais Dezső óráira [The Lamentations of Mary and what could be behind it : Remembering the lectures of Dezső Pais]

Korompay, Klára (2024) Az Ómagyar Mária-siralom és ami körülötte lehetett : Emlékezés Pais Dezső óráira [The Lamentations of Mary and what could be behind it : Remembering the lectures of Dezső Pais]. MAGYAR NYELV, 120 (1). pp. 17-28. ISSN 0025-0228

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Abstract

The presentation focuses on the question of what role his studying the Lamentations of Mary had on the work of Dezső Pais. To answer that question, one can start with the lectures that Professor Pais dedicated to the analysis of the first Hungarian poem. The author of the present paper attended these lectures for six semesters from 1968 on. Studying the Lamentations of Mary had been a constant theme in the teaching career of Dezső Pais, and his publications on the same topic have also been inspired by it. The presentation gives an insight into the spirit of these lectures as well: their crucial components were the freedom of thinking, the respect of facts, and the subtle revision of possibilities. Another aim of this presentation is to demonstrate the connection between the interpretations of the Lamentations of Mary done by János Horváth (1923) and by Dezső Pais (1937). This connection has a background in friendly conversations between the two scholars. A different topic is that of archaic folk prayers, which were first discovered by Zsuzsanna Erdélyi in 1968. Dezső Pais recognized that certain components of these prayers were directly related to elements of the Lamentations of Mary. The preservation of these is a result of oral tradition.

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