O konstruktivistce a esencialistovi: ke stylu a motivům dvou reinterpretací mýtu o Libuši

• Authors: Jiří Jelínek

Title variants

EN

The constructivist and the essentialist: the style and motifs of two reinterpretations of the Libuše myth

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper aims to show how two of the contemporary Czech postmodern writers deal with the fictional renarration of the princess Libuše myth. Pole a palisáda (The Field and the Palisade, 2006) by Miloš Urban brings forth a traditional conception of the story. Vilma Kadlečková wrote her story O snovačce a přemyslovi (Of the Weaver and the Premeditator, 2007 AND 2015) as a direct answer to Urban’s adapation and offers a completely different approach, setting the story into the future and reversing many of its elements. The differences between the two texts are shown in various areas: the concept of uncertainty, the role of nature, the usage of number and color symbolism and the approach to the problems of gender and sexuality.

Keywords

CS

gender; esencialismus; feminismus; kněžna Libuše; konstruktivismus; Miloš Urban; mýtus; postmodernismus; Vilma Kadlečková

EN

gender; essentialism; feminism; princess Libuše; constructivism; Miloš Urban; myth; postmodernism; Vilma Kadlečková

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 312-342
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jiří Jelínek

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