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Literacki model relacji rodzinnych w czeskiej poezji socrealistycznej – próba rekonstrukcji
The Literary Model of the Family Relationships in Czech Socialist Realistic Poetry – an Attempt at Reconstruction

Author(s): Piotr Gierowski
Subject(s): Political history, Comparative Study of Literature, Czech Literature, History of Communism, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: communism; Czechoslovakia; family; literature; poetry; propaganda; socialism;

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the paper is to present a literary model of the family in the Czech poetry of the 1950s. The author explains the way the socialistic ideology determined and changed the character of intimate family relationships showed in literature. Another aspect of the problem is also undertaken: the author describes the way how the socialistic literature was using family relationships as a metaphor of the communistic state and party. The traditional attributes of the family was used in literature and propaganda to depict the relations between the individual and society and to create the vision of the socialistic state.

  • Issue Year: 13/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 271-283
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish