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Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(1):10-53 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.002
For several centuries, scholars have been debating whether the Hussite Adamites really worshipped ritual nudism and free love in the remote corners of the South Bohemian Nežárka River, or whether this was merely a slander aimed at discrediting the so-called Picards, who denied the presence of Christ in the sacrament of the altar and rejected the priest's prerogative. For Catholics and for most Hussites, these views were totally unacceptable, since they denigrated one of the central sacraments (the reception of the Eucharist under both ways, of which the chalice was the sign, was considered by the Hussites to be a condition of salvation) and the basic...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(1):54-61 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.003
The Old Bohemian poem Death belongs to the sphere of works with the theme of memento mori, which was already expressed by its theorem-theme. The poem has a two-part strof and includes a distinct introduction and finale. The essence of the poem is created by the passage of the world and the passage of the soul. The entire composition is built on an octavic principle.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(1):62-82 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.004
The study deals with the problems of the Protectorate psychological prose, its form and changes in the period 1939-1945. It first characterizes general tendencies and backgrounds, then discusses individual authors. It describes the top works of the period, i.e. the novels of Václav Řezáč and Jan Drda. It then describes a group of works that focus on exceptional characters, artists and doctors. Among the best known are Karel Schulz's The Stone and the Pain, and among the lesser known are the works of K. J. Beneš, Čestmír Jeřábek, Helena Dvořáková and others. Another section is devoted to specific works by younger authors such as Bohuslav Březovský,...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(1):84-101 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.005
The paper is a case study on popular Czech biographical novel Největší z Pierotů by František Kožík published in 1939. After a concise context overview and a brief characterization of the novel, the study focuses on how the novel was received by the critics and what promotional strategy its publisher adopted, showing what was and what was not considered literary value in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(1):102-125 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.006
The study focuses on the interpretation of key prosaic works in Czech, Slovak and Polish literature after 1989, respectively after 2000. It notices Jáchym Topol's iconic novel Sister, two collections of shorter proses by Slovak writer Edmund Hlatký (Sláva a tajomstvo and Jesenný opar) and two proses by Polish novelist and reporter Ziemowit Szczerek (Sivy dym and Pec verejna: Bezpolstie), which penetrates into the consciousness of Polish readers only a few years ago. In the analysis of these works, the author of the study focuses on experimental tendencies and procedures, which in all three cases are related to the modeling of language as the basic...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(1):126-140 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.007
The paper provides a survey of selected Slovak poets of the 20th and 21st centuries who produce nature poetry containing numerous spiritual elements. In fact, one of the paper's conclusions is that spiritual and natural aspects are intertwined to such an extent that it is impossible to state whether the poems are spiritual or natural in their substance and, subsequently, whether the other aspect just develops the basis. Slovak poetry of recent decades brings examples in which nature plays a decisive role in expressing spirituality and morality, however, individual examples show that there are more ways of - and also reasons for - using natural motifs...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(1):142-172 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.008
The aim of the study is to present the course and basic conditions of the reception of Viktor Shklovsky's work in Slovakia. His works in the field of literary theory had a significant influence on the development of modern Slovak literary theory. Gradually, the public became acquainted with his literary work and his work in the field of film theory. However, as a representative of Russian formalism, he was rejected and banned in times of authoritarian political regimes. In the study we show what the response to his work was and what results he led to.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(1):174-199 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.009
This essay deals with the theories of Viktor Shklovsky and Iurii Tynianov from the perspective of decision science. It outlines how these two members of the Petersburg "Society for the Study of Poetic Language" (OPOIAZ) conceived of the writer as a rational agent pursuing a specific goal, and of the means at his/her disposal to attain it. Their approaches, the paper illustrates, correspond closely with two specific types of rationality: "instrumental" and "bounded". To conclude, the essay juxtaposes the Formalists' conceptualization of poetic creativity with Mikhail Bakhtin's view on the subject arguing that the way he conceives of the strategies available...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2021, 13(1):200-212 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2021.010
Narrative literary fiction, during its long-lasting development, has established and employed various self-referential techniques and strategies and even our non-expert, reader experience reveals that self-referentiality can take on multiple forms and cause various effects. Some of its forms are conventionally connected with a certain genre, period or trend, others are grounded in a writer's unique idiolect, some are just random. The study offers a general overview of the basic types of self-referentiality, a) structural (essential) self-referentiality, b) direct (iconic) self-referentiality, c) indirect (indexical) self-referentiality, and connects...
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