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Černý, Václav a Pelán, Jiří. Italská renesanční literatura: antologie. Vydání první. [Praha]: Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum, [2020], ©2020. 2 svazky (456, 804 stran). ISBN 978-80-246-4343-4.
More...Svatováclavská legenda (1643-1644) Jiljího od sv. Jana Křtitele slovem i obrazem
The aim of the study is to cast doubt on the exposition of the second quarter of the seventeenth century as a time when emigration deprived the Czech lands of readers with higher literary requirements. Proof of this thesis includes the artistic and literary activities of the Prague Monastery of the Barefoot Augustinians at Zderaz, especially a book about St. Wenceslas, published in Czech (1643), German (1643), and Latin (1644). Addressing the question of the adequate narrative representation of the past, the book adopts an even-handed position on the visual and textual components. Moreover, every part of the three-part structured chapters calls for different modes of reception. A more proficient reading literacy is also required.
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The aim of this study is to set out a relevant contextual framework for interpreting poetry published on (Czech) Instagram. The author looks at the material under study from a number of perspectives, including generational, economic and especially media perspectives, ultimately finding adequate contextualization outside the framework of literary discourse and actually within the aesthetics and communication practice of Instagram, while drawing key methodological inspiration from the reflections of new media theorist Lev Manovich. In conclusion, Instapoetry is characterized as a paraliterary phenomenon situated on the margins of the literary system, combining elements of literary and Instagram aesthetics and guided by hybrid economics principles.
More...Jan Mukařovský o Vladislavu Vančurovi
This study describes the origin and development of the friendship between the literary scholar Jan Mukařovský (1891–1975) and the writer Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942). Mukařovskýʼs interpretations of Vančuraʼs literary works are the main focus of the study. Both Mukařovskýʼs published works and texts that were never published (e.g. university lectures) are analysed. On the basis of archival research, the author of the study proves that Mukařovský analysed Vančuraʼs work much earlier than he published his first-ever work on Vančura in 1934. In the course of the 1940s to 1960s, Mukařovský published many texts on Vančura in which he remembered Vančura as a friend, poet, Communist and anti-fascist activist. Vančuraʼs image changed gradually — in line with what Mukařovský had selected and emphasized from his life and work at the time. An analysis of the changes in Mukařovskýʼs interpretations forms the basis for the second part of the study.
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This article deals with the aesthetic views that Vladislav Vančura formulated in the late 1920s and early 1930s. During this period Vančura continued to share certain principles with the avant-garde. The key attribute of literature turned out to be “poeticity”, “the verbal magic that uplifts and causes sudden shifts in the mind”. Vančura sympathetically followed the emergence of Prague structuralism and its concepts. The dominant role of the aesthetic function in art met his requirement for “poeticity”, while in Vančura’s works the structuralists found suitable material to support their concepts. Jan Mukařovský wrote about Vančura in a positive light not only in the 1930s and 1940s, but also later on, when Vančura’s works found themselves in potential conflict with the demands of “realism” and “the people”. An example of the reverse case, i.e. a fundamental misunderstanding based on different ideas about literature, can be found in the criticism of Vančura’s novel The Last Judgement by Ferdinand Peroutka.
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This reflection on the state and prospects of intermedia studies is inspired by a discussion among representatives of the field from around the world, organized as a series of online mee-tings by Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil, in September 2021. The presentations made by leading intermedialists always included contextualization and conceptualization: i.e. setting their own research within the context of the discipline’s development and the syn-chronic study of culture, and defending old concepts or proposing new ones. The key term ‘in-between’ expresses one of the trends in theatre and film production, whose output does not establish relations to other media, but is created at the intersection of media. In our exposi-tion, we add the historical context of intermedial discourse and relate it to the Czech envi-ronment. We assess both novel and frequently debated concepts in terms of their analytical and educational potential. It turns out that intermedia studies enable us inter alia to clarify how and why changes are currently taking place in the position of literature, which other me-dia can seemingly overshadow, but also absorb and refresh.
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This paper contains book review of: Procházka, Arnošt a Merhaut, Luboš, ed. Kritiky a eseje z let 1892-1924. Vydání první. Praha: Institut pro studium literatury, 2020. 1133 stran. ISBN 978-80-87899-98-4.
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This paper contains book review of: Antošíková, Lucie, ed. a Brunová, Marie, ed. Všechny vody Čech tečou do Německa: studie k německé literatuře a kultuře protektorátu. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2021. ilustrace, portréty, faksimile. 1938-1953; svazek 36. ISBN 978-80-200-3223-2.
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This paper contains book review of: Bystrzak, Magdalena, ed., Passia, Radoslav, ed. a Taranenková, Ivana, ed. Kontakty literatúry: (modely identity reprezentácie). Bratislava: Veda, vydavateľstvo SAV, 2020. 351 stran. ISBN 978-80-224-1856-0.
More...Zábavné dějiny spásy ve zpracování Václava Hájka z Libočan
This study focuses on the late medieval infernal novel The Life of Adam, or Solfernus from Olden Times by Václav Hájek of Libočany (1553). The text is briefly placed within the context of medieval infernal novels, combining a biblical pseudepigraph and a legal manual. A comparison of late medieval manuscripts and Hájek’s version showed that Hájek proceeded independently as an author and stuck to the text only at the beginning. From Chapter 18 onwards he significantly modified the original text, enhancing it with new characters and dialogues, emphasizing its fictional nature by removing biblical and theological insertions, and highlighting the grotesque character of the devils depicted. One completely new element is the conclusion of the text, in which Hájek emphasizes the descent of Christ into hell and his deliverance of the patriarchs from limbo. The exquisite and unique woodcut decoration of the text, the participation of Sixtus of Ottersdorf in the editing of the text, the wording of the preface and the many allusions in the text lead to a final reflection on its extra-literary function as part of the resistance to the rule of Ferdinand I, as well as the anti-regime message of 20th century adaptations.
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Fragment from the Novel 'Punainen erokirja' by Pirkko Saisio.
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Almost every culturally significant nations, such as Babylonians, Egyptians, Israelites, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Germans, Slavs and many others started glorifying and celebrating thier heroes very early on, as well as their kings and knights, religious patriarchs, dynasty founders, builders of cities and empires. Long story short, they wrote praises to their national heroes in numerous works of poetry, legends and sagas. Stories of their birth were especially fantastical and that mysticism was emphasized (Rank 2007 – 70). Similarities between Herkules and Marko Kraljevic are so prominent that they often ovelap. Their status of youngest amongst heroes contains all the clasical characteristics of a fabula; both Herkules and Marko Kraljevic are the children of parents that belong to high society, and they are of divine and/or royal descent. Their conception was complicated in both cases (secret relationship between Zeus and pious Alkmene). During the pregnancies, mothers were warned that the births of their children represent geat dangeour in socieaty, i.e. change. As a result of those prophecies, baby heroes were destined to perish by exposure to elements, usually because the father or some other figure demanded so. But baby heroes are always rescued and treated in special manner. Primal food, mother’s milk, which is cosnidered to have magical properties even from the breasts of a mortal women, is not the right nurishment for a baby hero. Their extraordinarity is emphasized through ultimate protection that this milk gives them – immortality, a gift that only succling the goddes i.e fairy can bestowe. The very act of naming the baby heroes ties them once again with deities with an unbreakable bond. Proverb Nomen est omen, which translates to „Name is a symbol“, is completely approprite for them, because they carry it through life as a sign of divinity, symbol of distinction that separates them from the mortal people.
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This study shall analyse the Sovereign’s character in political-satirical poems written by Vojislav Ilić (1860–1894). An important stimulus for starting this study was the fact that his famous poem Maskenbal na Rudniku was for the first time published exactly 135 years ago. Although this anthological, very representative poem Maskenbal na Rudniku (1887) represents the most important socially-engaged allegorical poem written by 129 Vojislav Ilić, scandalous events from every day of life of the then Serbian King Milan Obrenović (1854–1901) had inspired the revolted poet much earlier, in the beginning of the eighties of the XIX century. More precisely, numerous unpopular decisions of the Serbian ruler served as topical inspiration for writing an entire series of anti-dynastic philippics, the criticism of which could not have been hidden even by the poet’s “innocent“ allusions to the events from private life of the Serbian King Ubu. Our comparative analysis of literary-historical relevance and metric structure of Vojislav Ilić’s satirical poetry should eliminate any doubts regarding the aesthetic value of his poems about the Sovereign whose heart was allegedly more inclined to hedonistic indulgence in vice than to ruling the kingdom
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Poems by Traian Ștef - "Unchiul", "Sintactică", "Eu ăstalalt", "Despre lumină", "Interval", "Exercițiul".
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Poems by Matei Hutopila - "Acasă, într-un ținut necartat", / Ionuț N. Manea - "Linești", "Dispozițiile unui dumnezeu tânăr II", "Jazzul a murit", "Starea de spirit este apă de gură", "Teenagedream", "Sunt EU", "Așa a zis ea la radio", / Miruna Mureșanu - "Poeme de adormit moartea", / Isabela Brănescu, / Ioan Vasiu - "Catrene".
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