A History of World War One Poetry

0569991 - ÚČL 2023 RIV GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Říhová, Zuzana
Czech War Poetry.
A History of World War One Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022 - (Potter, J.), s. 118-131. ISBN 978-1-00-910064-9
Institutional support: RVO:68378068
Keywords : Czech poetry * modernism * First World War * Czechoslovakia * Habsburg Empire * Manifesto of Czech Writers
OECD category: Specific literatures

What constitutes Czech First World War poetry? Rejection of the romantic cult, an emphasis on collective participation in life, a turning towards reality and civilization, the search for a new aesthetic ideal and for new means of expression, especially for a poetic vocabulary and rhythm that would correspond to a dynamic conception of the world. In the Czech cultural context, the four years of the First World War were not identical. The first two years massively affected the development of Czech culture, many magazines were forced to stop publishing and many writers were sent to the front. In the last two years of the war, censorship declined, a series of new literary magazines emerged, and, in exile, negotiations for an independent Czech and Slovak state took place. This chapter deals with a significant attempt to present the new artistic generation Almanac for the Year 1914 and Manifesto of Czech Writers (1917), Dyk’s War Tetralogy and the poetry of exile and of the Czechoslovak Legion.
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