Historická perspektiva v literární kritice — k proměně kritického psaní Arna Nováka v desátých letech
The historical perspective in the literary criticism — toward the change of Arne Novák’s practice of criticism in the 1910s

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on some aspects of Arne Novák’s practice of criticism in the 1910s, especially onthe issue of applying a historical perspective while judging contemporary literary production. Thetransformation of this perspective in the confrontation with newborn avant-garde concepts (completing the vision of a better future with the appraisal of past-time literature, above all the Czechpoetry of the second half of the 19th century) is the corner-stone of Novák’s traditionalism. The performed analyses indicate, nevertheless, that the proclaimed program of the return to the traditiondoes not establish the ‘traditionality’ as a particular demand laid out in the reviewer’s practice; it israther the foreknowledge that the tradition is just happening in the contemporary Czech literature.

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