Jak zacházejí s minulostí čtenáři historických bestsellerů? Sonda do recepce Bílé Vody Kateřiny Tučkové

• Authors: Kamil Činátl

Title variants

EN

How do readers of historical bestsellers use the past? Case study of the reader reception of novel Bíla Voda by Kateřina Tučková

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study examines how readers use history when reading novels about the past. It focuses on two contemporary Czech historical bestsellers Bílá Voda (2022) and Šikmý kostel (2020). The reception examples are from the online reading platform Databazeknih.cz. The author relates the research of the reception of historical bestsellers to the issues discussed in contemporary memory studies. He is primarily interested in how new ways of digital communication contribute to changing shared ideas about the past. A probe into the reception of two historical bestsellers confirms that traditional ways of historical thinking (cause and consequence, continuity and change) are receding and a presentist relationship to the past based on emotions is gaining ground. The case study confirms the thesis about presentism and the dynamics of contemporary cultural memory formulated by François Hartog, Astrid Erll and Andrew Hoskins.

Keywords

EN

memory studies; public history; historical bestseller; presentism; historical thinking

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 79-106
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kamil Činátl

• Moderní dějiny, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic