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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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František Doucha - the author of literature for children and youth or Which way didn't lead anywhere
Peisertová, Lucie
František Doucha (1810–1884) belonged to the favourite writers and translators of the 19th century. Here, special attention is paid to his texts for young children, and his educational attitudes in particular, in order to give an idea of the process of transforming those attitudes into poetry. Education appears to be the genuine raison d’être of Doucha’s texts for children; he is not interested in a child as an individual, but “the child as the future blossom”, i.e. object of educational activity.
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Saint Rosa
Malínek, Vojtěch
Obviously, young Czech poetry had become more and more influenced by the ascending communistic ideology after World War I, which resulted in its evident ideologization. The need for new „saints“ to be celebrated arised, satisfied by an „enthronization“ of the German communist Rosa Luxemburg in the Czech context. The paper starts with analyzing the reception of her personality in the leftist Czech press, following the activities of the communist organisation Proletkult that was trying to promote Luxemburg as an exemplary „communist saint“ early in the 1920s, and inquires into the representation of Luxemburg in the texts by leftist poets such as S. K. Neumann, J. Wolker and A. M. Píša. Eventually, a description of the gradual decline of the Luxemburg cult in the following years is given.
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Image of History in Czech and Slovak literature
Fedrová, Stanislava
Proceedings of the 7th annual Students‘ Literary Conference focusing on the image of history in literature. The volume inheres a whole scope of topics, from concepts of cultural history to the „small history“ of an individual, from historic fiction intended to promote ideology to the mystifying image of alternative history, as well as a whole scope of genres.
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