Pražské Příběhy sebevrahů a konstituováni moderní subjektivity
The Prague Suicide Stories and the Constitution of Modern Subjectivity
Author(s): Václav SmyčkaSubject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, German Literature, 18th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro českou literaturu
Keywords: literature; enlightenment; suicide; subjectivity; Christian Heinrich Spieß; Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht;
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the stories representing the suicide of Prague (German writing) authors, Christian Heinrich Spieß, Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht and Reactions to the Wertheriads, which document the divergent development of cultures of subjectivity (Reckwitz) in Central Europe in the age of Enlightenment. The first part of the paper reconstructs the influence of the radical preromantism and Sturm und Drang, namely The Sorrows of Young Werther in the Bohemian Lands. Next, It compares the Stories written by Spieß and Albrecht with Werther as a paradigmatic text and its model of Subjectivity. It focuses to the Story Die neue Sapfo written by Spieß in 1779, which documents the genesis of his later stories and the development of the conception of the role of the subject.
Journal: Cornova
- Issue Year: 08/2018
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 67-81
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Czech
