“The day of glory and the feast of the fatherland, longed for and awaited”: Poetry for Children on 28 October in the Interwar Czech Press

• Authors: Korábková Kateřina

Title variants

CS

„Slávy dni a vlasti svátku, toužený a dočkaný“. Poezie pro děti k 28. říjnu v meziválečném českém tisku

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Occasional poetry was an inseparable part of the celebration of the national holiday of 28 October in interwar Czechoslovakia. In the context of a holiday whose celebrations had a deliberately nation-building character, it represented not only a form of celebration, but also one of the sources for interpreting the narrative of the holiday, which was also supposed to strengthen the relationship to the independent Czechoslovak state. The study focuses on research into holiday poetry in the children’s supplements and columns of the most important Czech newspapers of the so called First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938). The analysis of themes and motivic structure as well as stylistic and language devices will answer the question of what role holiday poetry for children played and what it communicated to them with the intention of shaping their attitude towards their homeland. Methodologically, the study is based on the foundations of media and memory studies in an interdisciplinary connection with literary science approaches.

Keywords

EN

celebration of October 28th; interwar Czechoslovakia; occasional poetry; children's poetry; memory; nation-building myth

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 271 - 284

Contributors

author

Korábková Kateřina