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Bohemica Olomucensia 2019, 11(3):10-17 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2019.029
The study deals with the contribution of the Olomouc professor Eduard Petrů (1928-2006), especially to the research on the work of Petr of Chelčice and his personality (ten basic studies and two editions in total). First, the author presents substantial publications in which E. Petrů dealt with the topic. She concludes that the most frequently cited item is his List of Chelčický's Works. Furthermore, she summarizes that the legacy of E. Petrů in Chelčický's research is followed in particular by Jaroslav Boubín (1954), who is still the author of six publications connected with Chelčický (2005-2018), in which E. Petrů is also properly cited. In a note,...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2019, 11(3):18-36 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2019.030
The paper is focused on the origin of the Czech Broadside Ballad. The key period for the first development of the Czech broadside ballad was late humanism (1590-1620). The emergence of this phenomenon was largely influenced by leaflet news, which developed considerably in the Czech lands in the last decade of the 16th century. In addition to this, the sung news, sensational songs and other song genres began to be printed separately in late humanism. Already during this period, these songs had many of the typical features of the baroque broadside ballad (simple verse and style, considerable length, the sense of detail, and final moralizing). At the...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2019, 11(3):38-50 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2019.031
This study sums up the methodology of literary work by Eduard Petrů in the field of early modern literature. It reflects his account of "theatrum" as a term, including its use in respective literature. First, its genesis since antiquity and early Christian beginnings is covered, together with the term's semantic scope modification during the Renaissance. Reflecting the spread of analogic thinking, the study traces Petrů's concept of genre constitution based on "theatrical metaphor" which enables the depicted reality to be approached universally, be it the world as a whole or any of its parts. The author of the study ponders on Petrů's characteristics...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2019, 11(3):52-75 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2019.032
The article contributes to the discussion on the issue of Czech literary humanism. The discussion critically comes to terms with the concept of this period in the first volume of "Academic" History of Czech Literature and with the synthesizing views of Milan Kopecký. One of the fundamental problems is the very definition of humanism. If a narrowed view of humanism based on its philologically-philosophical anchoring and the relation to antiquity is employed, Czech literature has to give up the 1450-1620 period, which were considered humanistic by researchers of the generation of Jaroslav Vlček, Jan Jakubec and Arne Novák, and also by the "Academic"...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2019, 11(3):76-90 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2019.033
This study deals with Eduard Petrů's concept of interpretation and his approach to interpretation. The study explains the basic theoretical and methodological basis of his scientific works. The core of Petrů's concept of interpretation is the theory of interpretive space, interpretive fields and the interpretive center. According to Petrů, the basic key to the interpretation of the text is its poetics. The pivotal elements of his method of interpretation are contextualization, comparison, structural and functional analysis, and genre studies. Petrů is convinced that the aim of literary research is to obtain an adequate interpretation of the studied...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2019, 11(3):92-102 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2019.034
The study is devoted to an overview and brief evaluation of literary historian Eduard Petrů's (1928-2006) editorial work. Petrů devoted himself to the series of literary works of older Czech literature, which he worked on throughout his professional activities. Its main goal was to make the old Czech literary texts accessible to the widest possible range of recipients, and its editions served not only to scholars, but were also a means of popularizing old Czech literature among the wider reading public.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2019, 11(3):104-106 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2019.035
Bohemica Olomucensia 2019, 11(3):108-113 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2019.036
