Romantismus Julia Zeyera z pohledu dobové literární kritiky
Julius Zeyer’s Romanticism from the Perspective of 19th Century Literary Criticism Abstract

Summary/Abstract: This work tries to map various literary contexts into which Zeyer’s Romanticism was placed by Czech literary critics of the 19th century. Czech criticism of the 1870s and 1880s generally failed to capture the specificity of the work of the Ruch and Lumír Circles under the term “Romanticism”, and also missed its connection with French Parnassism. Some of the critics perceived Zeyer’s work as a response to Gothic fiction, others (for example Leander Čech) as related to German Romanticism (Tieck, Novalis). In the 1890s, in the context of changing artistic tastes, interest in Zeyer’s works substantially increased. Critics tried to integrate them into the development of Czech literature and also into the European context and to interpret them using terms like “exoticism” and “aristocratism” (for example F. X. Šalda, F. V. Krejčí, M. Marten).

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