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This study presents the outline of a possible definition of literary poetics in Czech fictional prose in the latter half of the 19th century. It is based on the outline conceived by Dalibor Tureček and his team (Parnassianism and Realism), but points out the inadequately treated issue of Realism and the division of Parnassianism into two more or less distinct areas, while considering the possible condensation of the conceptual space in question. It arrives at a definition of a new poetics – Ideal Realism, which it distinguishes from Parnassianism and (Analytical) Realism. The conclusion of the study then sketches out the opportunities offered by the context of foreign, particularly Central European, literatures and the context of other types of literature (poetry and drama). The entire text, conceived as a consideration of this specific segment of Czech literary history, is meant to be a discussion piece that needs to be subjected to more extensive criticism before its completion and application.
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This article focuses on ‘Josefína Rykrová’s Autobiography’ (‘Vlastní životopis Josefíny Rykrové’) by Milada Součková, dealing in particular with issues related to the motif of memory in the form of labyrinthine prose. The collection of texts that is the subject of this analysis presents a retrospective narration based on the memories of Josefína Rykrová (although it makes multiple references to the biography of Milada Součková). Of particular importance is the fact that, at various times in the text, the subject position is split, suggesting a certain play with identities. Having created the figure of Josefína Rykrová, the author points to the splitting and loss of the self in the memories of others, which in turn become part of one’s own memory. Josefína, the titular heroine and the author of the memoirs, gets to know herself not only through her mother’s stories, but also through photographs. In this case, she draws from descriptions written on the back of the photos as an additional source of information. Součková shapes her text on the basis of an architectural metaphor of memory: the labyrinth. Moving towards the centre of this labyrinth is a complex process of remembering and erasing the traces of the past. The reconstruction of memories is aimed at reaching the first memory which remains entirely untainted. In this labyrinth, it is impossible to find the truth about oneself, yet the multiplicity of voices and images causes the subject to lose any certainty about this ‘self ’. Any certainty regarding the ontological status of the narrator is thus also lost by the reader. The labyrinth of the text, even though it uncovers the reality of intimate memories, never creates any intimate space for the subject, because it is interrupted by other voices — quotes, interjections, comments. Going through the labyrinth of memory is a symbolic attempt to confront one’s own identity and determine who one is.
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The study primarily deals with Lubomír Doležel‘s latest book, Heterocosmica II: Fictional Worlds of Postmodern Czech Prose — its main aim is not only to analyse and describe Doležel‘s newest contribution to the investigation of the theory of postmodern literature but also to compare the methodological preconditions of his approach to this type of literature with other crucial approaches. Therefore, the crucial theses of his system of postmodern literature are critically compared with those of the approaches of Linda Hutcheon, Brian McHale, and David Lodge.
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