In matters of taste, there can be no disputes. Elements of Camp in Fráòa Šrámek’s play Léto
In matters of taste, there can be no disputes. Elements of Camp in Fráòa Šrámek’s play Léto
Author(s): Agata FirlejSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Czech literature; Fráňa Šrámek; aesthetics; lyricism; postanarchistic;
Summary/Abstract: In this sketch I am going to focus on the presence of elements of Camp aesthetics in the Fráňa Šrámek's drama Léto, written and staged in 1915. Dandyism became popular at the turn of the 19th and 20th century in Czech culture and it would be the most crucial reference point to the Campy attitude. As a local text of the Czech decadentism, it took a place of bohemianism. In this sketch I understand Camp as a type of aesthetic avantgarde sensu largo, based on democratic tendency and on a fight against the given taste, analogues in many regards to the phenomenon it is against.
Journal: Bohemistyka
- Issue Year: XIII/2013
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 85-100
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English