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In the Middle of the Night. Kamil Bednář and His Literary Circle in the 2nd Half of the 1930s and Early 1940s
BRDEK, Zdeněk
The following Ph.D. thesis focuses on the poet Kamil Bednář and a group of young writers around him between 1936 and 1941. The author pays attention to Bednář´s poetry as well as to his activities leading to the constitution of a new literary generation at the turn of 1930s and 1940s. Using the rhetoric analysis and interpretation of Bednář´s poetic language, its transformations, dominant figures and textual strategies are identified; special emphasis is put on the comparison of poetic discourses of Bednář and those of his colleague Jiří Orten. The author also examines articles in the period press and other relevant materials for the purpose of reconstruction of the group´s thinking orientation and its relation to contemporary discoursive formations. Besides the activities of Bednář´s group, other factors that contributed to the creation of new literary generation are also explored, above all the ideas and activities of the prominent critic Václav Černý.
The work of poets from the group around Kamil Bednář
BRDEK, Zdeněk
Disertation ``The work of poets from the group around Kamil Bednář{\crqq} deals with a group of writers, which formed between 1930s and 1940s around the mentioned poet, who was considered to be the spokesman of his generation, which was labelled as ``protectoral{\crqq}. The author will try to explain the historical background of this group`s work in the context of Czech literature of the 1940s. The author will also study the crisis of this group during World War II, its gradual decline in the post-war period and its definite end after the takeover in February in 1948. The author will be concerned only with those poets, and their poetic and theoretical work, who became involved in the discussion about the young generation and its poetry. The author will try to clarify the idea and the conception of {\clqq}naked human``, which implied, that it may be considered to be the program of young arrtists, or, at least, to be their mutual base. The author will mainly focus on three most interesting poets {--} Kamil Bednář, Hanuš Bonn and first of all, Jiří Orten. The author will take notice of the similarities, differences and also the existential phenomena, which are usually connected with the group around Kamil Bednář. Jiří Orten will appear to be the most tallented , the most inspirative and probably also the closest to philospophical existentialism. There are special chapters devoted to Jarní almanach básnický (Spring poetic almanac), which is a generational performance of young poets; Kritický měsíčník (Critical monthly) {--} a magazine, edited by Václav Černý, which provided space for the poets around Kamil Bednář and Ohnice (White Charlock) , which was the last act of the fading group. The author will also mention briefly the penetration of existentialism to Bohemia.

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