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Karel Klostermann : dokumentarista Šumavy?

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Hořejší M.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2017

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vol. 65

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issue 4

565-589

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This study engages in a critique of the documentary validity of Karel Klostermann’s (1848–1923) “Bohemian Forest” work, particularly with regard to the dominant narrative on the destruction of the “original” Bohemian Forest as a result of the unprecedented windstorm of 1870, which is a prominent motif in contemporary discourse on the Bohemian Forest National Park. By excerpting all the descriptions of the natural environment in the novels Ze světa lesních samot (From the World of Forest Solitude, 1891), V ráji šumavském (The Bohemian Forest Paradise, 1893) and the accompanying Črt ze Šumavy (Bohemian Forest Sketch, 1890) I create maps which are then contrasted to each other. By comparing them with the “overall” (general) descriptions, i.e. those relating to each book’s entire setting, I came to detect some significant discrepancies. I consider one substantial finding to be that although on the basis of general descriptions, Klostermann stated that the “Bohemian Forest” indeed underwent fundamental disruption in autumn 1870, his local descriptions tend more to indicate that there was no significant change in the ratio of “original” and exploited land resulting from the windstorm, the bark beetle outbreak and subsequent woodcropping. Hence the narrative that is traditionally identified with Klostermann’s work primarily arises from an inconsistent interpretation of text associated with the writer’s specific role (which, it should be added, is also partially reflected by him) as a creator of the collective memory for the entire region.

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Obraz Karla Klostermanna v české (literární) historiografii

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Hořejší M.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

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2017

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vol. 14

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issue 27

60-74

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The article deals with the problem of representation of an author Karel Klostermann (1848–1923) and his novels in Czech literary-historical handbooks, editorial prefaces, and encyclopedias. The article exposes the way in which Czech literary historiography works with the myth of Karel Klostermann as a documentarist of the ‘old Bohemian Forest’ (Šumava in Czech). An analysis of the above three distinct text types reveals that Klostermannʼs central topic — an unprecedented windstorm that had terminated the ‘original Bohemian Forest’ — is mostly seen not as a motive but as the fact (as well as in the recent discourse on Bohemian Forest National Park). However, the concepts of ‘monumental and naturally stable forest’ or ‘sudden epochal break’ were paradoxically known only from the novels of Karel Klostermann, who worked with them inconsistently. The article shows that Czech literary historiography does not deal with Klostermann’s fiction critically but rather replicates common stereotypes and dominant narrative about the past of the Bohemian Forest.

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Karel Klostermann a diskurz o Šumavě

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Hořejší M.

Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)

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2019

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vol. 80

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issue 2

105-127

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This paper deals with a) the role of writer Karel Klostermann (1848?1923) and his work in the protracted debate over approaches to the administration of the Bohemian Forest National Park (BFNP), and b) a description of intertextual relations between three sets of texts: Karel Klostermann’s fiction, discourse on Karel Klostermann/the image of Klostermann’s fiction, and discourse on the BFNP. The material analysed consists of evidence from an extensive corpus of media texts on the BFNP dated 1991?2010, which use the life and work of Karel Klostermann as part of the argument data, both as quotations and simple references. This evidence is classified on the basis of the positions of the speakers and the motifs involved. The results of this analysis indicate not only that motifs from the discourse on Karel Klostermann have only to some extent crossed over into the discourse on the BFNP, depending in particular on the position of the speaker, but also that new motifs continue to cross over from fiction. However, it also reveals the nature of discourse on the BFNP, which is primarily determined by the dominant narrative of the unnatural character of the large-scale decline of mountain spruce trees.

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Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Rolle des literarischen Werks Karel Klostermanns (1848‒1923) in der Diskussion über den Nationalpark Böhmerwald (NPB) sowie mit der Beschreibung von intertextuellen Verhältnissen zwischen Klostermanns Werk, dem Klostermann-Diskurs und dem Diskurs über den NPB. Ausgangpunkt der Analyse ist die an anderer Stelle erarbeitete Erkenntnis (Hořejší, 2017a, 2017b), dass die tschechische Historiographie das Werk Klostermanns unkritisch als Dokument der Zerstörung des „ursprünglichen“ Böhmerwalds durch eine „präzedenzlose Naturkatastrophe“ betrachtet. Diese Behauptung stammt aber nicht aus dem Werk Klostermanns. Ausgehend hiervon verwende ich den Begriff Klostermann-Diskurs, der (teilweise) unabhängig vom Gegenstand des Interesses ‒ der Belletristik Klostermanns ‒ ist. Der Beitrag konfrontiert die Motive aus dem Klostermann-Diskurs mit den Motiven aus dem Diskurs um den NPB. Materialgrundlage ist ein Korpus von Medientexten zum Böhmerwald aus den Jahren 1991‒2010. Diese verwenden Klostermann als Teil ihrer Argumentation. Die Ergebnisse meiner Analyse bringen nicht nur die Tatsache zum Vorschein, dass der Klostermann-Diskurs und der Diskurs über den NPB einige gemeinsame Motive aufweisen. Ich zeige auch, dass die neuen Motive im Diskurs über den NPB unmittelbar aus dem Werk Klostermanns stammen. Die Analyse zeigt ebenfalls auf, dass der Diskurs um den NPB vor allem vom Narrativ über die ‚unnatürliche‘ Zerstörung des Bergfichtenwalds bestimmt wird.

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Karel Klostermann : dokumentarista Šumavy?

Obraz Karla Klostermanna v české (literární) historiografii

Karel Klostermann a diskurz o Šumavě