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Between Prague and Vienna. Hermann Bahr and J.S. Machar and the spaces of (Central) European Modernism
Kostrbová, Lucie ; Brabec, Jiří (advisor) ; Fialová, Ivana (referee) ; Vojtěch, Daniel (referee)
This thesis deals with the relations between Czech and Viennese literary modernism during the 1890s, key amongst which were the contacts between Hermann Bahr and J. S. Machar. The contextual underpinnings, nature and significance of these relations are analysed in two monograph chapters. Chapter One focuses on the formation and transformation of Bahr's modernist programme as it moved between Berlin, Paris and Vienna, and an analysis is made of the programme keywords (Nervenkunst, Nervenromantik, Überwindung des Naturalismus, die Moderne, das gute Europäertum, Entdeckung der Provinz), which from the early 1890s found a response among Czech critics (e. g. F. Zákrejs, J. S. Machar and F. V. Krejčí). Bahr's conception of Viennese modernism and Austrian culture and the programme of the Die Zeit review were substantially influenced by Parisian experiences of the plurality of artistic production. Chapter Two follows developments in the work of J. S. Machar after he moved from Prague to Vienna in 1889. Machar's experience in Vienna is analysed in texts of various genres (lyric poetry, correspondence, autobiography, polemics and essay writing) and on the basis of his varying literary and intellectual contacts, while attention is paid in particular to his relationship with Jaroslav Vrchlický and T. G. Masaryk. A...
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Masaryk and Nietzsche in the Thoughts of F. X. Šalda
Kostrbová, Lucie
The paper examines impact of the philosophy of T. G. Masaryk and Friedrich Nietzsche on thoughts of Czech eminent critique F. X. Šalda. Despite of Masaryk's rejection of Nietzsche's philosophy the modernist literary generation of 1890s perceived his personality and thinking through prism of Nietzsches´s ideas and understood Masaryk in Nietzschean way as a great "destructor" and "creator". The later Šalda's criticism of Masaryk refers to Nietzsche again when he arguments that the notion of life can´t be deprived of subconscious and chaotic realms. After 1918 Šalda criticised the way the Masaryk´s conception of democracy was turned into the politic reality.
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Through Mannerism towards Symbolism - Šaldas' Short Story Analýza
Kostrbová, Lucie
The article interprets the early prose of F. X. Šalda "Analýza" (1891) and focuses mostly on it’s first part, in which its naturalistic narrative changes into a symbolistic text by radically metaphoric language. The literary language thus loses the power of reference and the significance of the text becomes ambivalent. On the one hand the experimental form of the text can be defined in terms of mannerism as an intellectual construct of irrationality, on the other as a combination of language units, semantically most opposite. The main character is depicted in mannerist way as well, being formed together from inorganic objects and simple components - similarly as the paintings by Arcimboldo.
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