THE PROBLEM OF 'CATHOLIC LITERATURE' IN THE CZECH LITERARY CRITICISM (1918-1939)

• Authors: Stefanski M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Contemporary historians of literature generally assume that the increase of the interest in 'Catholic literature' after the year 1918 was the result of an urgent secularization of the Czech society. A detailed analysis of the declarations of the Czech critics of the 1920s and 1930s would suggest quite a different interpretation. As the findings mentioned in the dissertation prove, the project of 'Catholic literature' put forward by the Catholic camp from 1918-1939, constituted a serious counterproposition on the utopian artistic concepts of the Czech avant-garde. It was in fact the reaction to the projects of Proletarian Art and Poetism, the main current in the Czech poetry of the 1920s. Under the banner of 'Catholic literature', a return to the native literary tradition was proclaimed.

Keywords

EN

'CATHOLIC (CZECH) LITERATURE'; LITERARY CRITICISM; UTOPIAN ARTISTIC CONCEPTS

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Committee on Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Pamiętnik Słowiański
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 35-58
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Stefanski M.

• M. Stefanski, Instytut Slawistyki PAN, u. Bartoszewicza 1b m. 17, 00-337 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01433176