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Bohemica Olomucensia 2022, 14(1):10-40 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2022.002
The paper is a commentary formulated as a reflection on the argumentative sequence established by Gérard Genette in his study Boundaries of Narrative. Genette mentions Parmenides as one of the writers excluded from Aristotle's "Poetics" because they ignore the representational function of poetry. The aim of the paper is to recapitulate the general poetic background of Parmenides' epic poem and then to verify how valid is Genette's inclusion of Parmenides among the writers of direct expression.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2022, 14(1):42-51 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2022.003
The aim of my study is to compare the views of the concept of literary history by Russian formalists and Prague structuralists, two significant literary theoretical schools of the beginning of the twentieth century. In spite of the fact that both schools are primarily considered literary theoretical, their particular members were involved in a whole scale literary critical investigation - including the area of literary historical inquiry. Indeed, slowely but surely both respective schools became more emancipated in their claim of a general validity of their originally literary theoretical ideas and started to widen the scope of their scholarly interest...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2022, 14(1):52-80 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2022.004
The study analyses the influence respected Czech poet Petr Borkovec (b. 1970) had on the younger Czech and Slovak poets being the editor of their poetry collections, namely Lom (2013) by Martina Blažeková, Oheň po slavnosti (2011) by Kamil Bouška, Sněhy a další (2010) by David Voda, Suť (2007) and Vlastivěda (2010) by Jonáš Hájek, and Co drží Nizozemí (2010) by Viktor Špaček. They and Borkovec share many common features of their respective poetics, such as lyrical description of the countryside and abandoned houses, observational distance, refined formal qualities of the poems, or the change of state as a main theme.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2022, 14(1):82-104 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2022.005
The paper argues that we should differentiate between explicitly and implicitly political novels and the politicization of novels, the latter being a result of symptomatic interpretation (Culler). This differentiation helps preserve the discriminating sense of (sub) genre distinctions as an awareness of these categories makes the reader more sensitive to all kinds of manipulations of genre rules. Political novels should be recognized by the predominance of political motifs (setting, characters, themes, dialogue, agenda and conflict). Implicitly political novels lack explicit political motifs, but advocate the need for some kind of political commitment...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2022, 14(1):106-135 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2022.006
The study is devoted to the topic of the assassination of the prominent politician and the Minister of Finance of the newly established Czechoslovak Republic, Alois Rašín (1867-1923). The author traces the reflection of this event in contemporary journalism, literary works and drama, describes the way in which authors portrayed it depending on their political orientation and their relationship to the ideas of the First Republic. In addition to the depiction of the assassination itself, the authors discussed the question of whether a violent solution is a justifiable method of political struggle.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2022, 14(1):136-161 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2022.007
The study focuses on a textual analysis of the first edition of Ivan Olbracht's novel O Anně, rusé proletářce, which appeared in the magazine Reflektor, published by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1925 and 1926. It was at this time that the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in line with the demands of the Third International, transformed its propaganda and began to use its magazines to agitate politically indifferent readers. To do this, it deliberately uses 'means of art and entertainment'. In the context of the Party's propaganda and agitation department's regulations, Olbracht, in the middle of the novel and simultaneously with the new...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2022, 14(1):162-176 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2022.008
This study is focused on the common texts of Karel Hynek and Vratislav Effenberg, namely Jela tudy dáma (1950) and Poslední umře hlady (1952) which are commonly described as theatre plays. The main goal will introduce chosen aspects of both texts, mainly from politicaly-cultural point of view in these times, in context of official and surrealistic conception of theatre and also in other works by authors.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2022, 14(1):178-201 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2022.009
Václav Havel's adaptation of John Gay's e Beggars' Opera had its premiere on November 1, 1975, in Horní Počernice-a remote suburb of Prague. Following the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the author was blacklisted and staging his plays (even if only by amateur groups) was perceived by the authorities as serious provocation. The essay points out how Havel's text deviates from the original and focuses on the characters' dialogues exhibiting a peculiar communication disorder for which Gregory Batson coined the label "double bind": when the object language (the content of communication) becomes entangled with the metalanguage (the social setting...
Bohemica Olomucensia 2022, 14(1):202-215 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2022.010
Although Milan Kozelka's last collections of texts, written in the spirit of the literary radicalism programme, were reviewed in their time, from today's perspective it might seem that they are losing their intensity. In them Kozelka portrayed the current political situation and a number of contemporary media cases, and inadvertently created a variant of political satire that Czech literature had not known before. The present paper outlines two different interpretive frameworks from which Kozelka's late work can be read, while at the same time attempting to reconstruct an image of an artist who truly believed in the subversive potential of his work.
Bohemica Olomucensia 2022, 14(1):218-234 | DOI: 10.5507/bo.2022.011
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