Ancient history and Czech historical novel and drama in the communist period 1948-1989
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The aim of the paper is to present the development of the Czech historical novel dealing with classical history in the period of the communist dictatorship 1948-1989. The key question of our research is not only to present the most important authors, novels and topics, but first of all to pay our attention, to which extent the genre of historical novel and perception of classical history was influenced by state ideology and censorship, even misused for political education or ideological brainwashing or, vice versa, if the genre of historical novel dealing with classical topics provided space for presenting liberal ideas and worldview not compatible with ruling Marxism-Leninism or even ideas of anticommunist dissent. |