THE CASE OF MICHAL VIEWEGH. POPULAR LITERATURE, CRITIQUE, THERAPY

• Authors: Car A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Michal Viewegh is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers. He is also known as a very controversial artist and subject of major literary polemics in the Czech Republic in the 90's. In this paper Viewegh's literary output is being analyzed from the point of view of that polemics. The authoress focuses on issues related to aesthetics, i.e. on the aesthetical criteria used by literary critics and on modifications of those criteria as proposed by M. Viewegh. The analysis reveals an important aspect of this critical discussion - the relationship between high and low culture.

Keywords

EN

AESTHETICAL CRITERIA; HIGH AND LOW CULTURE; VIEWEGH MICHAL -LITERARY OUTPUT

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Pamiętnik Słowiański
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 29-46
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Car A.

• A. Car, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, ul. Golebia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02655447