The Imaginative in the Realistic: Ways to the Inner World of the Child Hero in Czech Fiction for Children and Young Adults Cover Image

Imaginativní v realistickém: cesty do nitra dětského hrdiny v české próze pro děti a mládež
The Imaginative in the Realistic: Ways to the Inner World of the Child Hero in Czech Fiction for Children and Young Adults

Author(s): Milena Šubrtová
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Památník národního písemnictví
Keywords: Contemporary Czech literature for children and young adults;science fiction;spacetime;

Summary/Abstract: This is a discussion of science-iction stories in Czech literature for children and young adults published in the last twenty years, in which the child hero’s inner world (his or her unconscious or subconscious) provides the setting for an adventurous plot. In analyses of the prose iction of Magdaléna Platzová (b. 1972), Eva Prchalová (b. 1974), Vendula Borůvková (b. 1977), and Marka Míková (born Marie Horáková, 1959), the author demonstrates the means by which the writers build their many layers of meaning and how and where they shift the boundaries of the ordinary. She also considers the formative function and reception potential of these works.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 48
  • Page Range: 16-28
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Czech