Hledání smyslu literatury. Česká literatura v čase seriálove tekutosti
The Search for the Meaning of Literature: Czech Literature in the Time of Serial Fluidity

Author(s): Pavel Janoušek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Czech Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Czech literature; literature during the so-called normalization; literary poetics; literary traffic; transformation after 1989; the advent of digital communication; the transformation of literature an
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the essay is to describe the transformation that Czech literature has undergone from November 1989 to the present. The first part of the essay seeks to describe this transformation from a historical perspective: it defines how the transition from the communist notion of socialism, i.e. from an ideologically octroi society and culture to a present based on the vision of a free economy and market of ideas, is involved in this literature. Thus, it compares the functioning of Czech literature in two different political and economic systems, which not only dictated and continue to dictate a different social role for it, but also create different material and communicative conditions for its emergence, social functioning, and readership – hence for the success of a different poetics. Part Two then turns the attention to the more global transformation of the communication processes as brought about by the transition from a “paper” culture to a digital one. It thus seeks to capture the fundamental transformation of the receptive abilities and preferences of potential addressees and the creators’ resulting efforts, as well as the transformation of socially preferred poetics.

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