Postmodern criticism and borders of (bad) taste in literature Cover Image

Postmoderni kritika a hranice (ne)vkusu v literature
Postmodern criticism and borders of (bad) taste in literature

Author(s): Vladimír Novotný
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Literary criticism; Czech literature after 2000; postmodern prose; T.W. Adorno; Andrej Stankovič

Summary/Abstract: The issue of “frontiers in literature”, that also borders taste or bad taste, and is often associated with typological categorization of literary works of literature “to read” and literature “to write”. Especially the new Czech literature while expectating a “cutting” the boundaries between literary genres, especially between epic and lyric, which is a significant phenomenon of postmodern literature. In this context however, can be inspiring to go back to the earlier classification of T. W. Adorno, who distinguished types of critical reflection on the “consemerist critique” and “criticism resentimental”. At present, however, a new frontier in the literary works are created, mostly dictated by conformal thinking about art and especially of literature – a rejection of conformal postulates, which is also the sense of creative criticism, the poet and critic A. Stankovič defines as „breaking the sacred cows“.

  • Issue Year: 17/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 15-22
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Czech
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