The discussion of realism “the floor bellow”. The concepts of realism in the thinking of Teréza Nováková and Sofie Podlipská Cover Image

Diskuse o realismu „o patro níž“. Pojetí realismu v myšlení Terézy Novákové a Sofie Podlipské
The discussion of realism “the floor bellow”. The concepts of realism in the thinking of Teréza Nováková and Sofie Podlipská

Author(s): Jana Vrajová
Subject(s): Cultural history, Gender history, Czech Literature, Culture and social structure , 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Sofie Podlipská; Teréza Nováková; Czech literary realism; romantism; biedermeier; the magazine Domácí hospodyně (The Housekeeper); Czech literature of the second half of the 19th century;

Summary/Abstract: This study deals with educational texts of two Czech women writers who formed the spiritual climate of the Czech culture in the second half of the nineteenth century – Sofie Podlipská and Teréza Nováková. It demonstrates that the discussion of the varied and inherently dynamic nature of literary realism in the Czech lands was spread to a wider readership through the cultural education and the involvement of the forming women’s movement. The coexistence and the interpenetration of different discourses is particularly evident from the example of the analyzed magazine Domácí hospodyně (The Housekeeper). The initiative for its establishment came from a lingering romantic idea personified in Olomouc by Jindřich Wankel. The composition of the magazine, its focus and the personality of the editor Miloslava Procházková unequivocally refer to the Biedermeier period. This, however, did not prevent the publishing of articles and essays on realism and naturalism, or those advocating these movements.

  • Issue Year: 17/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 131-147
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Czech