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Mystification, Coming-of-age Novel and Murder Mystery: Three Fragments of Byzantium in Czech Literature

KULHÁNKOVÁ, Markéta

Základní údaje

Originální název

Mystification, Coming-of-age Novel and Murder Mystery: Three Fragments of Byzantium in Czech Literature

Vydání

Byzantium and the Modern Imagination. Patterns of the Reception of Byzantium in Modern Culture, Brno, 12.-13. 9. 2018, 2018

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00103730

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Byzantium; reception; Czech literature

Štítky

Změněno: 21. 2. 2019 15:48, Mgr. Marie Skřivanová

Anotace

V originále

Presence of Byzantium in modern Czech literature is as rare as were the contacts between the Czech lands and Byzantium in the Middle Ages. Saints Cyril and Methodius are perhaps the only Byzantines who, for obvious reasons, acted repeatedly as inspiration for the Czech (and Slovak) literature and became widely known outside of the narrow scholarly circles. However, there can be found some noteworthy cases of the use of Byzantine history in Czech literature. The focus of my paper will be three such examples written in different periods of modern Czech literature. The first one is a short story from the collection entitled Apocryphal Tales (first published in 1936) by Karel Čapek, the leading Czech novelist of the interwar period, which renders a fictional dialogue. This dialogue takes place (most probably) at the beginning of the 8th century between a layman art lover and an abbot, a former icon painter, and its topic is the cult of icons. My second example will be a YA novel (published in 1980) set during the time of the fourth crusade. The last and the final example is a book by a young promising writer František Kalenda, a historical crime story set in the 14th century Peloponnese. By using these three examples I will try to demonstrate three distinct approaches to (Byzantine) history in Czech literature of 20th and 21st cent.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/0916/2017, interní kód MU
Název: Zkoumání starověkých jazyků, jejich písemnictví a příslušných kultur, včetně jejich recepce – 2018 (Akronym: Staré jazyky, písemnictví, kultury)
Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Zkoumání starověkých jazyků, jejich písemnictví a příslušných kultur, včetně jejich recepce – 2018, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty