PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hrbata, Zdeněk
TI  - Texts and paratexts. The style of Zeyer's author introductions to epics
DP  - 2019 Mar 1
TA  - Bohemica Olomucensia
PG  - 180--213
VI  - 11
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/bo.2019.005
IS  - 1803876X
AB  - This study deals with the ideas and aesthetics of Julius Zeyer, neo-romantic and parnassist, that were expressed in introductions to his literary works inspired by medieval epics or european mythology. Zeyer conceived and represented their codes of honor, courage and fidelity as a transcendental ideal and example. Analysing close thematic and stylistic relations between author's works and paratexts, the paper is focused, among others, on Zeyer's so-called "Celtic tetralogy".