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Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(1):10-20 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.002
Filip Topol himself has often confessed to a strong aura of authenticity which was created around his personality from the very beginning. I would like to uncover this phenomenon in his prosaic debut. In the introduction I try to resist the concept of authenticity in the sense of true representation of reality in his work. I perceive authenticity as the author's intention, which he inscribes in the text during writing process. Authenticity is thus inscribed in the text by the author as an instruction intended to trigger this effect on the reader. Therefore we will focus on certain textual features, which have an authentic effect on the perceiver. This...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(1):22-30 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.003
The study focuses on the novelistic debut of Lucie Faulerová Lapači prachu. The primary goal is to describe the relationship of the protagonist Anna and her sister Dana to idealization or rather de-idealization of the family, partnerhood and womanhood, and to find out where this tendency for a positive or negative view of life stems. The secondary endeavor was to find sings of unreliable narration.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(1):32-47 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.004
After 1989, the critical discussion in Czech literature went through several important stages regarding the relation between a work of art and social events. Based on this discussion, the presented paper examines the relations between the literary work and its critical reflection and tries to define the "type of social speech production". The starting point for this search is the reasoning by Pierre Macherey, who argues that a literary work is always related to history in some way. The following section of the paper provides the interpretations of the novels by David Zábranský and Václav Kahuda.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(1):48-63 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.005
The study focuses on the works of prose by contemporary Czech philosopher, biologist and essayist Stanislav Komarek, specifically on three novels, sometimes referred to as "irregular trilogy": Opšlstisova nadace (Opšlstis Foundation, 2002), Černý domeček (Black House, 2004) and Mandaríni (Mandarins, 2007). With the use of analytical-interpretive probes the study aims to find out and prove whether the principle of irregularity itself might work as a connecting link between the texts on different levels, especially regarding the genre structure, fictional setting and the way how aluctions and mystifications are utilized within the texts.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(1):64-79 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.006
František Herites published a prose with clear signs of salon literature (a salon room, a salon speech, a romantic story) in the periodical Lumír. Further Herites's prose is dominated by decorative descriptions, floral ornaments associated especially with female heroes, these ornaments symbolize their beauty and uniqueness (the influence of Parnassian literature). And finally in his prose we find ever-colliding idyllic and anti-idyllic elements, for example topos of idyllic places and boats versus the tragic death of the main character.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(1):80-88 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.007
The analysis focuses on the relation between the compositional and shaping processes of Jedlička's prose and their function to reflect and deconstruct the socialist ideal. It does not seek to uncover detailed intertext links, but instead the analysis concentrates on Jedlička's ideal and idyllic thematic. The analysis uses Macura's concept of the socialist ideal and Bachtin's idyllic chronotope in relation to the character of the text as "witness testimony about the period."
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(1):90-117 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.008
This paper deals with irony as a basic formal principal of concrete poetry. Based on Sperber and Wilson's theory of irony as echoic mention, it approaches concrete poem as a poetic form composed by two elements, which ironically mention one another. The ultimate target of this irony may be language or literature in general.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(1):118-136 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.009
The aim of this thesis is not to provide a complete list of every poetic movement which was interested in nature as such. However, the text is focusing on several selected impressionistic and environmental poetry collections through which the thesis will demonstrate different examples how a poet can deal with natural lyric. The list of chosen poems should outline concrete groups of metaphors which are characteristic for poetic movements aforementioned.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(1):138-160 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.010
The paper focuses on describing key attributes of the "superfluous man" as it appears in Russian literature of 19th and 20th centuries, but also as more general literary type. It combines the analysis and interpretation of particular texts, in which such characters appear, with contemporary and present views of literary scientists and critics. The purpose is to create a definition which can help us to consider which literary character is - or is not - the "superfluous man".
Bohemica Olomucensia 2020, 12(1):162-189 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2020.011
This study focuses on the Austrian Society for Literature and their contacts with authors in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe during the 1960s. The Society, with the secret financial support of Congress for Cultural Freedom, held three international conferences on novel and drama, where East and West participants met in the period of the Cold War, an conflict between two opposed ideological blocks. In October 1965 twenty seven novelists came to Vienna to discuss the literary realism and the realistic novel, the "nouveau roman" and the future of the novel. The Viennese cultural and historical spirit and the ability of the...
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