Očividná minulost: reprezentace prostoru v bohemikálních dějepisných textech 16. a 17. století

• Authors: Jan Malura

Title variants

EN

The apparent past: representation of space in 16th and 17th century Bohemical historiographical texts

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study focuses on the poetics of historical narrative, based on a broad sample of 16th and 17th century Czech and Latin historical prose texts. It explores ways of representing space in chronicles, histories, hagiographic narratives and thematically structured historiographical prose works, and it follows the use of topographical information, detailed descriptions, vivid descriptions and ekphrases. Spatial representations can often be understood as a manifestation of what is called evidence, a rhetorical device capable of depicting absent objects as if they were right in front of the addressee’s eyes, and at the same time a method intended to lend credibility to knowledge.

Keywords

CS

historiografie; raný novověk; reprezentace prostoru; popis

EN

historiography; Early Modern period; representation of space; description

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 155-196
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Malura

• Česká literatura, redakce, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 3/1420, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic