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Forbidden drama - an attempt to define unofficial 1948-1989 drama
Jungmannová, Lenka
This paper attempts to delimit the field of unofficial Czech drama from 1948 to 1989 in two ways. The first part focuses on the content and the formal charateristics of forbidden dramas in individual decades and also provides an overview of production at home and in exile. The second part is devoted to determining the core plays of each period; it also highlights the problematic nature of defining their borders (in the case of specific authors and works).
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The subject of suppressed literature in Humoristické listy (1863-1873)
Hemelíková, Blanka
This study deals with censorship and humorous magazines in the latter half of the 19th century. We attempt to show the representation of censorship and the satirical struggle with the censors, using the example of Humoristické listy, in 1863-1873. We find protests against censorship and the ambivalent effect of censorship. Methodologically we are inspired by new research and its views on "the latitude in deciding how to maintain some free space for the individual at the side of the authors and how to assert the state's control at the side of the censors", and on "the limits of state censorship".
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Czech literature at the Interface and Periphery: Fourth Congress of World Czech Literary Studies: Other Czech Literature (?)
Jungmannová, Lenka ; Amelina, A. ; Baluch, J. ; Borovička, L. ; Brožová, Věra ; Corduas, S. ; Czaplińska, J. ; Czernikow, O. ; Češka, J. ; Dinzl-Rybářová, A. ; Dobiáš, Dalibor ; Fišer, Z. ; Goszczyńska, J. ; Gwóźdź‑Szewczenko, I. ; Harák, I, ; Hauck, R. ; Heftrich, U. ; Hemelíková, Blanka ; Holman, P. ; Holý, J. ; Hultsch, A. ; Inštitorisová, D. ; Ivačić, M. ; James, P. ; Janiec‑Nyitrai, A. ; Ježková, P. ; Komenda, P. ; Kosková, H. ; Kratochvil, A. ; Królak, J. ; Kuba, M. ; Kusáková, Lenka ; Lezhava, G. ; Linssen‑Hogenberg, A. F. ; Malinová, L. ; Matějková, V. ; Meyer, H. ; Mlsová, N. ; Müller, R. ; Nekula, M. ; Palij, O. ; Papoušek, V. ; Pavlíček, Tomáš ; Pilař, M. ; Přibáň, Michal ; Raßloff, U. ; Řezníková, L. ; Stolz‑Hladká, Z. ; Suchomel, M. ; Šubrtová, M. ; Tarajło‑Lipowska, Z. ; Tlustý, J. ; Vítová, L. ; Vörös, I. ; Zand, G.
Arranged every five years at the initiative of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Institute of Czech Literature, the congress brought together some 150 researchers from all over the world this year. Czech literature at the interface and the periphery deals with the personalities and forms involved in the occurrence of “otherness” in Czech literature: the boundaries of understanding “otherness”, problems of the emergence of “the other”, images of “the other” and the alternative cultural and geographical spaces of Czech literature. It looks in detail at authors who are neglected, not included or difficult to categorize, including Czechs beyond the borders. It also examines Czech-German, Czech-Austrian, Czech-Polish, Czech-Hungarian, Czech-Slovak and Czech-Jewish literary relations as well the “otherness” of particular works and characters, the context of Czech literature and translation, and the specifics of teaching Czech literature.
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Mapping out the discourses of Czech gender literary criticism
Matonoha, Jan
The paper aims to map out the state of art and the dynamics of discourses of Czech gender literary criticism and to provide a critical assessment of existing body of its work. While some blinds spots and low resolutions can be detected namely in terms of its under-theorised conceptual apparatuses it works with, in sum, the paper finds the field of gender literary criticism as a reasonably developing area.
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Czech literature from a gender perspective: Fourth Congress of World Czech Literary Studies: Other Czech Literature (?)
Matonoha, Jan ; Balázs, A. H. ; Deutschmann, P. ; Filipowicz, M. ; Fischerová, A. ; Gańczarczyk, G. M. ; Hoffmann, B. ; Hoffmannová, Jana ; Kalivodová, E. ; Kalnická, Z. ; Kos, S. ; Kynčlová, T. ; Lishaugen, R. ; Machala, L. ; Malevič, O. ; Moldanová, D. ; Penčeva, A. ; Poročkina, I. ; Scheinostová, A. ; Sokol, E. ; Součková, M. ; Thomas, A. ; Volková, B. ; Wutsdorff, I. ; Zachová, A.
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. The presented set of studies primarily attempts not merely to repeat other discussions on the subject of women (or men) in literature, but with the aid of gender analysis and critical interpretation to more systematically consider the literary text as a space for subject self‑comprehension and the formation of gender(ed) identities, as well as to comment on the opportunities, dilemmas and debts of Czech literary research in the context of gender thought. This collection thus offers a broad range of theoretical and thematic approaches, from a critical reading of the canon, gynocriticism and the archeology of women’s literary tradition through cross‑dressing in National Revival drama, queer reading of the socialist realist novel, the gender evaluation of contemporary Czech literature and many other topics.
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A case of an "authentic" novel
Kudlová, Klára
This study presents first of all a theoretical argument, showing that all “authentic” literature is actually based on a double game of images. While the fictional images seemingly refer to the actual world, they can actually refer only to the so-called emblems. (These emblems are shared images, created in the public consciousness by various non-fictional texts and pieces of information, and there they represent actually existing persons, texts, events, etc.) The second part of the study draws comparisons between two specific cases of an “authentic” novel, namely The Armies of the Night (1968) by Norman Mailer and Rok kohouta (The year of the Rooster, 2008) by Tereza Boučková, paying special attention to the latter. It appears that while Mailer’s “authentic” novel behaves as an intertextual one, Boučková’s work functions – especially with respect to the informational emblems – as a “hypertext”.
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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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"And this here beetle". Attempts to depict Kafka's Metamorphosis in comics format
Jareš, Michal
This study deals with several attempts to depict Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis (1915) in a comics format. The first recalls the historical context in illustrations of Gregor Samsa. In the three selected comics cases the treatment shows gestures and additional explanations of some things, which are sometimes too literal. All three authors are artists from alternative comics. Two Americans, Robert Crumb and Peter Kuper, are complemented by an attempt by the Czech comics creator, Václav Gatarik. By means of a detailed comparison of some key scenes in Kafka’s story we attempt to show the issues behind the comics treatment.
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The role of the beholder in ekphrasis
Fedrová, Stanislava
The status of the beholder, whether through the physical process of looking or his existential experience, is a principal formative element in ekphrastic texts. This study defines three possible approaches: in the first the beholder is like a character in a fictional world and at the same time a visual representation. This character is part of the story, so this version of ekphrasis is formed by the role played in the story. The second type is the character as a mediator of the world of visual experience. As the viewer sinks into the depths of the image by means of a Rückenfigur which has already entered it, this beholder is a mediator in ekphrasis, thanks to whom the reader acquires the perspective of a joint beholder. The third type, the beholder as interpreter, points to the basic techniques for the formation of ekphrasis: correlativization with another visual representation or pictorial model, the grounding of the narrative plain and associative play with the form of the observed.
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Banal as a speech bubble - the adjective "comics" as genre specification
Kořínek, Pavel
The terminological confusion that is still present when considering the nature of comics (is it a genre, perhaps even literary a form or a medium?) is reflected in the usage of the adjective "komiksový" (comics, the adjectival form which in Czech refers specifically to comics) in texts of various media. This description is commonly used as a characterization that usually refers to specific formal, genre-based or subject-based similarities. However, in most cases this adjectival notation only revives genre stereotypes, or non-systematically marks the source medium of adapted material. Do "comics radio shows", "theatre comics" or "comics movies" exist? As the article argues, the most common reasons for labelling other-media texts as comics are: 1. formal proximity of the media involved, 2. the superhero genre, 3. animation or cartoon technique, 4. humour, dottiness, sometimes even the perceived qualitative inadequacy of the text under review.
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