Looking at the Past and Present of Czech and Slovak Literary Development from the Central European and European Perspective
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Slovanský přehled |
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| Keywords | The year 1918 in literature; Czech and Slovak literature; Central Europe; national revival; Czechoslovakia in interwar period; Slavonic literary studies |
| Description | The year 1918 which brought the split of the Habsburg monarchy and the rise of Czechoslovakia represented the final completion of the constitution of the modern state-national society. This complicated process, not very precisely named by its contemporaries as „national revival“, was in Slavonic-non Slavonic Central European context the result of the complicated emancipation movement of the Czech and Slovak nations which entered the newly founded state though with language–ethnical relations, but, nevertheless, with different historical and confessional traditions and developmental potentialities. Therefore the official ideology of the unitarian czechoslovakism adored in cultural sphere the construction of a higher“ and superior Czechoslovak unity in which in realityt there were the different literary discourses which pervaded both in an integrational and disintegrational form, artistic poetics, co-existed several languages and ethnical minorities. In the intewar period 1918-1939, politically influenced by Masaryk’s idea of democratic community in the geopolitical space between the West and the East in both cultures there was a dynamized literary development freeing the creative potential of artistic generations and single subjects. This situation in Czech and Slovak literatures contributed to a more intensive self-reflection of European ideological and aesthetic currents through which both literatures moved closer in their top creations to world literature. |