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On Description
Jedličková, Alice
There are probably not many readers who would cherish their memories of writing a description at school… Nevertheless, hardly anyone would deny that we cannot do without descriptions in everyday face-to-face dialogues – though only a few of us may be able to reflect on the process of describing, and to judge to what extent it is influenced by the circumstances surrounding communication. The essay on “absent description” by Jana Hoffmannová provides an insight into everyday speech, as well as an opportunity for linguistic self-reflection. Linguistics is only one of the disciplines present in this volume: nine representatives of various fields of research and theories are brought together here to discuss the issue of description: analytic philosophy and fictionality theory, linguistics and literary history, art history and intermedia theory. Petr Koťátko discusses the relationship between the communicational functions of descriptions and their function in the structure of fictional worlds of literature. While he employs realist descriptions to illustrate the limits of their identificatory work, various descriptive modes provide a parameter for Ivana Taranenková to pursue the development of realist writing. Hardly any reader will doubt the fact that every fiction has its own more or less overt (or covert) narrator. Nevertheless, it remains to be proved whether there is a corresponding “descriptor” in descriptions: an attempt at doing so in the context of Czech fiction is made by Stanislava Fedrová. The possibilities of employing descriptive forms as a tool of poetics (be it the historical or the intermedia one) are put to the test by Zdeněk Hrbata (in his interpretation of the generic schemes underlying Gautier’s novel Le Capitaine Fracasse, and Emma Tornborg, who focuses on poetic ekphrasis.
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Metaphors of memory
Jedličková, Alice
The author of the essay observes the frequent occurence of the notion of memory in the work of the exiled writer Sylvie Richterová, while paying particular attention to the fiction Slabikář otcovského jazyka, where it is represented in a plethora of metaphors which include aspects both of the individual and the cultural memory.
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Intermedia poetics (of landscape)
Jedličková, Alice
After surveying the current state of literary and cultural studies which may contribute to intermedia research, the author suggests a literature-centred intermedia poetics of landscape, involving inter-art concepts introduced by Mary Ann Caws, Tamar Yacobi and incentives for landscape observation as given by literary critics and art historians such as Malcolm Andrews and Michael Charlesworth. Particular aspects of the suggested poetics are illustrated by examples of analysis of Czech fiction (Karel Václav Rais, Alois Jirásek and Martin Fibiger).
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Czech literature from an intermedia perspective. Fourth Congress of World Czech Literary Studies: Other Czech Literature (?)
Fedrová, Stanislava ; Zajac, P. ; Winter, A. ; Štochl, J. ; Novák, R. ; Beličová, R. ; Foret, M. ; Kořínek, Pavel ; Jareš, Michal ; Bubeníček, P. ; Koblížek, T. ; Mareš, P. ; Málková, I. ; Čulík, J. ; Kyuchin, Kim ; Zelinský, M. ; Schultze, B. ; Gerčikova, I. ; Voisine-Jechová, H. ; Cloutier, C. ; Jirsa, T. ; Kapsová, E. ; Jedličková, Alice ; Mercks, K. ; Režná, M. ; Změlík, R. ; Šlaisová, E. ; Ambros, V. ; Janáčková, J. ; Pariláková, E. ; Váša, O. ; Lemańczyk, M. M. ; Schmid, H. ; Vaňková, I. ; Machová Ondřejová, K. ; Šolić, M. ; Müllerová, L. ; Kudlová, Klára ; Pořízka, P.
Arranged every 5 years at the initiative of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Institute of Czech Literature, the congress brought together some 150 researchers this year. World intermedia studies research has developed from case studies into initial syntheses, while in the Czech context it still has slight symptoms of "otherness". Studies contained in this collection deal with analyses into the crossing of media boundaries within the framework of authorial poetics, within individual works and between semiotic systems: the problematization of film and radio adaptations of literary works, comics, ekphrasis and other thematizations of the fine arts or musical motifs in literature, the relationship between drama and theatre stagings and the representation of reality and the procedures of other media in literary texts.
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In Macura’s shoes. Selected papers of the Student literary conference 2002-2009
Fedrová, Stanislava ; Jedličková, Alice
The protagonist of Lodge’s famous university novel Morris Zapp claims that conferences are meant to keep the academic discourse running and to provide occasions for enjoyable meetings. The open community of junior scholars in Czech and Slovak studies from Bohemia, Slovakia, Poland, and other countries have been putting this claim on test since 2002 during annual student’s conferences held at the ICL of ASCR. They have found out that such conferences provide us also with an occasion to compare the literary image of common history of Czechs and Slovaks, to inquire into the development of genres, to ponder on the potential of literature to represent our experience of time and space, or to take up the incentives suggested to literary criticism and other disciplines by the work and personality of Vladimír Macura. The title of the current volume, which includes a selection of students’ contributions of 2002-2009, is intended to remember his semiotic work as well as his human legacy.
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