Portraying countryside in Central European literature

0554580 - ÚČL 2022 RIV CZ eng M - Monography Chapter
Holeček, Lukáš
The Countryside as an Indicator of Changing Times. Representation of the Countryside in Czech Prose of 1935 to 1946.
Portraying countryside in Central European literature. Ostrava: University of Ostrava, 2021 - (Ivánek, J.; Malura, J.), s. 288-302. ISBN 978-80-7599-261-1
Institutional support: RVO:68378068
Keywords : countryside * space in literature * ruralism (literature) * ethical and moral aspects
OECD category: Specific literatures

The study covers the dynamics of changes in the Czech “rural novel” in the defined period 1935–1946. Representations of the countryside always had their political potential. I observe the representations of the countryside not through the lens of ideological determinism, but I perceive them primarily as a representation of the existential “experience of the countryside”. Study touches on the conceptualization of Czech ruralism, its programmatic approach to rural issues and its relationship to politics. I will also focus on the issue of comparing the “literary countryside” and historical contexts in a broader Central European perspective.
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