Bohemica Olomucensia 2014, 6(2):79-84
Bohemica Olomucensia 2014, 6(2):87-125 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2014.012
The author deals with Neruda's short tales. The most important finding of the paper is fact that the middle level of literature is richer than the high level, regarding the ambiguity.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2014, 6(2):126-138 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2014.013
The paper deals with displaying social details in the Czech comedies, especially the J. Štolba's and V. Štech's. These comedies are very important for understanding the development of Czech drama.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2014, 6(2):139-146 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2014.014
The study deals with the genesis of the term midcult. It shows, how was the term used by Dwight Macdonald, Virginia Woolf and Umberto Eco. Macdonald's thinking was primarily based on cultural and sociological thinking working with ideas of marxism. Nor for Virginia Woolf was or essential to specify the distinctive features of literature for middlebrows, she preferes to describe the level of intellectual prestige senders. Due to societal changes that have taken place since the publication of both texts and which lead to the permeability of different social strata, it seems to be more productive to think about midcult following to Eco's semiotic concepts.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2014, 6(2):149-167
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