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American Elements in Czech Parody
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SYSNO ASEP 0446045 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title American Elements in Czech Parody Author(s) Hemelíková, Blanka (UCL-M) RID, SAI Source Title Journal of Popular Culture - ISSN 0022-3840
Roč. 48, č. 1 (2015), s. 102-113Number of pages 12 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country US - United States Keywords Czech interwar literature ; parody ; Brdečka, Jiří ; Kuděj, Zdeněk Matěj ; americanism Subject RIV AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision Institutional support UCL-M - RVO:68378068 UT WOS 000351403400009 EID SCOPUS 84924656501 Annotation The article examines parody as a form of cultural transfer that can create a special representation of the cultural "other". It does this by analyzing the American elements in Czech parody especially in the interwar Czechoslovak Republic, from 1918 to 1940. It focuses upon three works of Czech parody by Zdeněk Matěj Kuděj, the author with the pseudonym Mefisto and Jiří Brdečka. The analysis makes it clear that parody tended to look for correspondences rather than differences, and that America as represented by Czechs was projected as a nexus of ideas, values and institutions admired in the Czech world. It means that parody also resonated with the cultural flow of so-called Americanism and mediated positive image of America. Workplace Institute of Czech Literature Contact Pavla Hartmanová, hartmanova@ucl.cas.cz ; Veronika Zemanová, zemanova@ucl.cas.cz, asep@ucl.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 828 135 Year of Publishing 2016
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