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The Forms and Functions of Hedonism, Gluttony and Drunkenness in the Latest Czech Literature

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Lollok M.

Studia et Documenta Slavica

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2019

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vol. 10

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issue 4

13-34

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The aim of this paper is to describe some of the most distinctive ways of displaying hedonism, gluttony and drunkenness in the Czech literature over the last approximately 15 years. Based on the analysis of the most significant books concerning these themes (e.g. texts by Petr Stančík, Jan Balabán, Emil Hakl, Václav Kahuda, Jáchym Topol and other authors), the author proposes a more detailed typology of the forms of these phenomena in the latest Czech literature, as well as of their specific functions in concrete texts.

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Pohádky jako prototexty apokryfních reprodukcí v současné české próze

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Hrtánek P., Knesplová P.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2012

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vol. 99

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issue 4

463-477

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The present study focuses on the intertextual relations between fairy-tale patterns and their artistic adaptations that are in contemporary literary communication and meta-communication denominated apocrypha. The study analyzes and compares the short story anthologies of Přemysl Rut V mámově postýlce(In Mummy’s Bed, 2000) and Květa Legátová Mušle a jiné odposlechy (Shell and Other Eavesdroppings, 2007). Both authors in some of their stories reproduce in specific way the classical adaptations of folklore tales, or better to say components of their typical plotlines. The study shows how the intertextual relations between apocrypha and its fairy-tale prototexts are established and aims to identify the nature of intertextual transformations of the original tale plots, motives and characters. The basic procedure of apocrypha writing is the motivic amplification of the fairy-tale that enters the text either through the quotation or through the basic plotline that is then rewritten anew. The fairy-tale prototext or the general acquaintance with it constitutes the indispensable perceptual background of the apocrypha and upon this background the ironic intertextual game with allegorical or variously actualized meanings is being played. This game “it happened some other way” is focused on adult recipients, something that sets the fairy-tale apocrypha apart from the range of post-modern variants of authorial tales.

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Returning to the Past: The Germans as a Historical Trauma in Contemporary Czech Prose

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Šidáková Fialová A.

Porównania

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2020

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vol. 27

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issue 2

59-76

PL

Artykuł przedstawia zawarte we współczesnej czeskiej prozie odbicia traum związanych z II wojną światową i wydarzeniami powojennymi, uwzględniając problematykę Europy Środkowej, w której tradycyjnie dominuje konfrontacja czeskiego żywiołu z niemieckim. Autorka podsumowuje rozwój refleksji nad tematyką Niemców i Niemiec, II wojny światowej oraz następujacego po niej przesiedlenia w prozie nowego tysiąclecia, a jako zagadnienia wspólne wskazuje kwestie niejednoznacznej identyfikacji narodowej bohaterów literackich, detabuizację przemilczanych wcześniej tematów oraz Zagładę Żydów (szczególnie w odniesieniu do gatunku sagi rodzinnej). Zwraca uwagę także na utwory dotyczące antyniemieckiego ruchu oporu (książki z elementami powieści kryminalnej i z pogranicza literatury pięknej i literatury faktu).

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This study describes reflections of wartime and postwar historical trauma in contemporary Czech prose, taking into account the issues surrounding Central Europe, which entirely overlap with the traditional confrontation between the Czechs and Germans. It also includes the changing reflections on Germany and the Germans, the Second World War and the subsequent expulsion found in the prose work of the new millennium, the unifying topic being deemed to be the issue of the ambiguous national identification of the protagonists, the detabooization of previously hushed-up subjects and the subject of the Holocaust, particularly in the family saga genre. It also takes into account groups of texts focusing on reflections of anti-German resistance activities, both in the genre of the novel (with detective elements) and in output on the boundaries between fiction and factographic prose.

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Subjekty a fragmenty : K teoretizaci a interpretaci literárního postmodernismu

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Kanda R.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2017

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vol. 65

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issue 6

877-901

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This study deals with a conception of postmodernism that is based on the ideas of the American Marxist theorist Frederic Jameson. The first, theoretically-based section does not define literary postmodernism as a particular style, but as a cultural landmark, basically associated with the broader socio-economic, epistemic and ideological context. The basis of postmodern epistemology, which critically opposes the epistemology of modernism comprises a critique of the Carthesian subject and the concept of reality as a whole. This critique results in the problematization of the subject as an autonomous entity and the fragmentation of reality. My study asserts that the ideological function of this postmodern critique also works to delegitimize all ''totalitarianizing'' tendencies, while legitimizing a particular kind of cultural reproduction. The second part of the study focuses on interpreting prose works by Emil Hakl (Skutečná událost, An Actual Event, 2013) and Václav Kahuda (Vítr, tma, přítomnost, Wind, Darkness, Presence, 2014), which I believe artistically portrays the consequences of conceptualizing the subject and reality that are typical of postmodern culture. The fragmentation of reality, the self-alienation of the subject and the collapse of historicity in Hakl's prose does not allow for the creation of a space in which radical acts are possible. Václav Kahuda's prose is a fragmentation of reality, and the loss of the essence of the subject is overcome by the construction of a paranoid universe and a shift towards a monistic view of an all-pervasive transcendental principle.

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Studie pracuje s pojmem postmodernismu, který vychází z koncepce amerického marxistického teoretika Fredrika Jamesona. V první, teoreticky založené části není literární postmodernismus definován jako určitý styl, nýbrž jako kulturní dominanta, jejíž povaha souvisí s širším socioekonomickým, epistemickým a ideologickým kontextem. Podstatou postmoderní epistemologie, která se kriticky vymezuje proti epistemologie moderny, je kritiky karteziánského subjektu a pojetí reality jako celku. Důsledkem této kritiky je problematizace subjektu jako autonomní entity a fragmentace reality. Ve studii tvrdím, že uvedená postmoderní kritika působí zároveň svou ideologickou funkcí jako delegitimizace všech „totalizujících“ tendencí a zároveň legitimizace určité typu kulturní reprodukce. Druhá část studie je zaměřena na interpretaci próz Emila Hakla Skutečná událost (2013) a Václava Kahudy Vítr, tma, přítomnost (2014), v nichž jsou podle mého názoru umělecky zachyceny důsledky konceptualizace subjektu a reality, typické pro postmoderní kulturu. Fragmentace reality, sebeodcizení subjektu a zhroucení historicity v Haklově próze znemožňuje vytvoření prostoru, v němž je možný radikální čin. V próze Václava Kahudy je fragmentace reality a ztráta esence subjektu překonávána konstrukcí paranoidního univerza a příklonem k monistické představě všeprostupujícího transcendentního principu.

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The Forms and Functions of Hedonism, Gluttony and Drunkenness in the Latest Czech Literature

Pohádky jako prototexty apokryfních reprodukcí v současné české próze

Returning to the Past: The Germans as a Historical Trauma in Contemporary Czech Prose

Subjekty a fragmenty : K teoretizaci a interpretaci literárního postmodernismu