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Zářivá hlubina. K druhému vydání monografie Jiřího Opelíka Josef Čapek

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Vojtěch D.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

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2018

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vol. 15

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issue 29

57-66

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On the occasion of the second edition of Jiří Opelík’s first monograph of Josef Čapek (1980, 2017), this article traces its original context and outlines its significance for Czech literary historiography of the modernist movement: the limits of its contemporary reception contrasting with its massive later impact on literary scholarship, the context of the monograph series published by the Melantrich house (1961–1995), the links with the art historical debates concerning the art nouveau style and the art of the fin de siècle, the situation of literary criticism in the 1970s both in the communist Czechoslovakia and abroad, and, finally, the context of Jiří Opelík’s long term engagement with the works of the Čapek brothers and Josef Čapek in particular.

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„Nerozlišuji v tvorbě věci drobné a velké“

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Kordík P.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

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2016

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vol. 13

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issue 26

26-53

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This study yields an analysis of one of the most distinctive compositions from the composer Miloslav Kabeláč (1908–1970) for children’s choir and piano — Blue Sky (1950). One’s attention focuses above all on the vocal sound, on the elemental musical morphology and its impulses, which on the one hand stands the load-bearing constructions of Kabeláč’s compositions (which are built upon continuous planes and musical units), and on the other hand, these elements shape and define each individual song. Kabeláč outlines Hrubín’s verse (from the collection Blue Sky, 1948, which uses pictures from Josef Čapek) through the elemental nature of monorhythmic structures and in a more or less unvarying vocal space. Despite this, however, each song has its own specific traits and pronounced character. The elements of play, which this analysis will attempt to express and within which are found various deep dimensions of Kabeláč’s conception of the work as a whole, are mutually related structures of joking, playful puns through lyrics or vice versa through more dramatic position to a decidedly contemplative position, an expression of the naturalness of the world of children followed by a return to the world of adults.

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Transformace žánru robinzonády v povídce Josefa a Karla Čapkových "Ostrov" (1912)

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Marggraffová U.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2016

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vol. 64

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issue 3

372-391

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While the lives and works of brothers Josef and Karel Capek have been investigated rather well over the past century, one of their first prose texts under the name of Ostrov, written in 1912, has been paid very little attention to this day. Created during the time leading up to the First World War, when European literature turned from Symbolism and Impressionism to Avantgarde with schools like Expressionism and Cubism, the narrative pursues the myth of the self-made-man, founded by Defoe in modernity, in an inverted way. The brothers provided their text with subliminal allusions to the fate of artist Gauguin, changing the space-time scheme of the genre’s paradigm. Unlike Defoe, by doing so they also assessed not only the contrast between mankind's self-alienated civilisation of a Western European nature and the longing for a non-alienated existence in an Arcadian island world recalling ‘locus amoenus’, but also used it for their own aesthetic and historic self-reflection.

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Zářivá hlubina. K druhému vydání monografie Jiřího Opelíka Josef Čapek

„Nerozlišuji v tvorbě věci drobné a velké“

Transformace žánru robinzonády v povídce Josefa a Karla Čapkových "Ostrov" (1912)