Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(1):5-6
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(1):8-29 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.002
The paper deals in the first part with the semantic analysis and classification of aesthetic concepts. Subsequently, on the basis of this analysis three conclusions are inferred that are relevant to the ontology of aesthetic properties. Firstly, the predicate function of evaluative aesthetic concepts is refuted. Secondly, the distinction between aesthetic and non-aesthetic concepts is discussed. I argue for the thesis that this distinction is not categorical, but functional one, and therefore does not imply the introduction of a special ontological category for aesthetic properties. Thirdly, the possibility of separating the evaluative and descriptive...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(1):30-52 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.003
The article focuses on one of the aspects of narrator's perspective, or to be more specific, the focalization, for which we propose the term narrative distance. It is not the question of perspective but rather the question of phenomenological intention that is by means of focalization shown in the relation between the narrator and the narrated, or between the narrating instance that implies possible readers and the narrated world the parts of which the characters may be. This configuration is dynamic and variable when reading the text. To grasp it means to specify and better distinguish the setting of meaning in narrative strategies. Our ideas follow...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(1):53-65 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.004
The debate about the so-called "engaged literature" is one of the significant discussions in recent Czech literary life. The discussed concept was soon realized especially in poetic works, although in contemporary Czech fiction appeared several prosaic books that are reviewed in the context of the mentioned discussion: among others, they are novels Mafie v Praze (Mafia in Prague, 2011) and Mráz přichází z Kremlu (Frost is coming from the Kremlin, 2012) by Michal Viewegh or the prose Skutečná událost (The Real Event, 2013) by Emil Hakl. Based on analyses of these books, this study attempts to present literary engagement as the category of expression...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(1):66-88 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.005
By playing with the conventions of representations of urban space of Prague, Jiří Weil's novels Life with a Star and Mendelssohn is on the Roof represent a specific, yet insufficiently explored, contribution to the scholarship mapping Prague texts in literature. Their main feature is the extent to which Prague as a city is constructed as an easily recognizable, and perhaps expected, topos, with all of its cultural and historical significance for the establishment of the national and cultural identity.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(1):106-109
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(1):110-113
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Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(1):90-92 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.006
Bohemica Olomucensia 2015, 7(1):93-103 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2015.007
