Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):154-181 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.014
The essay "Head-working Literature and Digital Communication" examines the transformation of literary communication in the era of digitization and new media. The author observes how technological developments are fundamentally changing the relationship between writing, reading, and the perception of literature in the context of a broader cultural shift from paper media to the digital environment. He shows that, just as theater responded to the advent of new technologies by oscillating between technical innovation and a return to authentic forms of human presence, literature also finds itself between two poles ‒ between the printed book as a symbol...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):128-153 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.030
The study attempts to place Karin Lednická's trilogy Šikmý kostel (The Leaning Church) within the framework of literary traumatology. This concept is understood as a flexible set of approaches that take into account memory, displacement, and collective experiences of suffering. Rather than focusing on primary textual analysis, the study draws from the novels' reception, which allows for an examination of their social effects. A key element is the vanished landscape of the town of Karviná, which functions as a medium of traumatic memory and a site of symbolic significance. The fictional narrative transforms memory traces into narratives that help shape...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):104-127 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.013
Although the term of magical realism has been used since the 1920s, it still seems to be somewhat contradictory and not fully understood. The present study deals, in its introduction, with the nature of the concept of magical realism in the context of literary criticism. Afterwards the study explores the phenomenon of magical realism in contemporary Czech prose, analysing its manifestations in the works of Antonín Bajaja, Anna Cima, Daniela Hodrová, Jáchym Topol, Miroslav Hlaučo, Markéta Pilátová, and Michal Ajvaz - special attention is paid to specific narrative strategies, particularly the blending of temporal planes and the interweaving of reality...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):84-103 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.004
The deteriorating publishing conditions in the period that followed after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 had far-reaching consequences. As early as the spring of 1969, publishing executives were altering editorial plans and removing politically problematic titles. In January 1970, a new censorship body was established at the Ministry of Culture of the Czechoslovak Republic, and the hitherto unclear censorship criteria began to take on concrete features. Several books that had already been printed but the Ministry forbade their distribution, they fell victim to this censorship. This harsh censorship practice also affected two books...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):56-83 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.012
This study examines literary and personal reflections on the period of the 1950s in the Zábrana family, focusing on three key texts: Ohlédnutí (1994) by Jiřina Zábranová, Celý život (1992) by Jan Zábrana, and Flashky (2014) by Eva Zábranová. These works offer a unique opportunity to look at the same decade through the eyes of three generations. Based on Philippe Lejeune's concept of the diary as "anti-fiction", Jan Patočka's concept of reflexivity, and Paul Ricœur's triple mimesis, this study outlines how each of the texts mentioned transforms personal experience into a testimony of time. Jiřina Zábranová's memoir documents the brutal realities...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):34-55 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.029
The study presents how the first president of Czechoslovakia, T. G. Masaryk, was portrayed in daily newspapers' Sunday sections for children in the interwar period. By comparing two diverse periodicals - Našim dětem from Naše politika and Tribuna mládeže from Tribuna - the author shows how these sections depicted Masaryk as a fatherly and self-sacrificing figure, as well as a leader and a liberator of the nation. In addition, they used similar motifs and narratives, for example, emphasizing his simple origins, his hard work and devotion to the country. Masaryk was presented as a role model for young readers, with the objective of fostering civic engagement...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2025, 17(1):12-33 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2025.001
The manifesto published by Literární skupina (Literary Group) in 1922 attempted to synthesize and reinterpret numerous concepts appearing in the critical discourse of the early 1920s; among them, classicism and primitivism represented the desire for a new form of social poetry. These two directives were present in the young criticism as lessons of simplification and a sense of reality, as evidenced by the texts of Karel Teige and other critics in the circle of Devětsil. As a part of discussion with Devětsil on new/proletarian art, František Götz and Literární skupina promulgated the synthesis of classicism and primitivism in the manifesto. But subsequent...
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Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(2):148-162 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.027
The article focuses on personification in Czech vernacular names of flowers and birds. It explores different forms of personification used in vernacular names and compares the metaphors in each of the two domains in order to show how flowers and birds are per- ceived with regard to anthropocentrism.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(2):116-147 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.023
This paper examines whether the presupposition of a stimulus implied by verbs of reaction in Czech is manifested in the topic-focus articulation of the sentence, and whether it is affected by the fact that the stimulus and the reaction together form (or do not form) a reciprocal situation.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(2):94-115 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.022
The paper describes seven types of compound complex sentences (i. e. sentence consisting of more than two clauses) based on the individual connectives, clause-order variants of these types, modality variants and derivation of the types and clause-order variants.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(2):74-93 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.029
There are two interpretations of the relationship between the preposition and the form of the noun: 1) the preposition requires a complement to which it assigns a case; 2) the preposition does not control the case and specifies its semantics. The task of the article is to try to say whether one of the concepts is more accurate.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(2):52-72 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.035
The study tries to show how the schizophrenic behavior of the Czech phi-marker -s both as a C-2 clitic (Ty-s četl // Ty jsi četl "You've read") and a V-clitic (Ty četl-s // *Ty četl jsi "You've read") could be derived within the theoretical framework of the phi-feature geometric analysis.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(2):34-51 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.024
Kořenský's linguistic work makes references to philosophy, logic, mathematics and their methodology. Here is an attempt to look at this work from the perspective of leading philosophers. The text presents a comparison of their ways of seeing the world, their correspondences and differences.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(2):26-33 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.026
This article discusses the scientific and human profile of Professor Jan Kořenský. He was a leading Czechoslovak and Czech linguist and created a new concept of describing the Czech language. It is based on a synthesis of older structuralist and more recent pragmatic and philosophical approach to Czech and language in general. Key words: Jan Kořenský; philosophy of language; pragmatic; cognitive and semiotic approach to Czech and language in general
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(2):12-24 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.025
This contribution is an attempt to create a portrait of Jan Kořenský from the opinions and quotes of around twenty Czech and Slovak linguists, i. e. of Kořenský's peers, colleagues and students. The selection is based on texts written about him and his work: reviews of his books, texts celebrating his life milestones, and (unfortunately) also obituaries.
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Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):272-273 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.020
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):270-271 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.018
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):268-269 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.017
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):266-267 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.003
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):255-265 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.007
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):248-254 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.004
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):194-245 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.008
This study provides the reader with the correspondence of Jan Čep to Josef Tichý, the editor of the Olomouc publishing house Velehrad and Čep's friend. The correspondence contains thirty-one letters and eight postcards sent by Jan Čep to Josef Tichý from 1939 to the end of 1947. The letters (together with Josef Tichý's memoirs of one of his visits to Myslechovice) are kept in the Memorial of Literature in Moravia in Rajhrad.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):166-191 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.015
Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s was controlled by the Communist Party, which strictly determined cultural policy. The book market was centrally planned and based on the reduction or negation of market mechanisms. In this study, I show the ways in which the Party in power tried to determine the optimal way of calculating authors' royalties in order to achieve a "fair" payment system and to limit "unearned" profit. Similarly, I examine what factors were taken into account in setting a uniform selling price for the book, which was not to be based on actual financial costs or the level of reader demand, but was to take into account the social value...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2024, 16(1):154-164 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2024.009
The study focuses on the aesthetic dimensions of the work of Lubomír Doležel. This work, although essentially bound to the field of literary theory, displays various links to aesthetic categories and connects them to linguistic, semiotic, literary and narrative theoretical and other of the author's findings. The study reveals these connections.
