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The strong development of the Net, which is a decentralized democratic space for communication, as well as for existence itself and (artistic) creation, has on the one hand drawn the attention of part of the scholarly community from various backgrounds (with media analyses commenced in Poland by researchers into audiovisual culture progressively engaging the attention of sociologists, culture theorists, literary scholars and many others), while on the other hand this Net has become the ‘living environment’ for the young generation, which has moved on from mere reading/user experience of new media works to their mature reflection and theoretical consolidation within the humanities and sometimes even to artistic performances realized within the digital environment. Several initially minor projects (Ha!art, Techsty) have grown into a major platform bringing together, promoting and exploring new media art. Their respect for traditional research tools combines with new ways of viewing remediated art. This article is an attempt to reconstruct and analyse this theoretical and artistic reflection, taking into account the specific nature of its realization.
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This article examines literature from the standpoint of mediality, defining medium as an act, i.e. “an apparatus brought into operation”. A new sensitivity towards the media dimension of literary communication, bolstered by new technologies, applies to typeface and writing itself, the media of the work and communication — the treatment of the work as a physical phenomenon. The media dimension of writing is not just conceived as a phenomenon bound to digital data or the internet, but as an age-old element in the treatment of texts and associated both with the meanings of texts and the authority mediated by texts. From these standpoints samizdat also appears to be a noteworthy phenomenon which creates a particular materiality for writing, along with various forms of experimental treatment of typeface, writing and text. One productive tool here appears to be Aarseth’s ergodicity, a term applied to an attribute of a work that involves or creates rules on which its non-linear “usage” is based. On the basis of a number of specific cases it is shown what media-“staged” and variously produced (cf. Kittler) text might be like, and what uncertainties apply to it. From this standpoint avant-garde experiments confront questions raised by theologians, mystics and glossolalia theorists.
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The paper presents and critically surveys the main methods involved in electronic literature research. After a general outline, the three most widespread and analysed methods in the discourse of electronic literature are discussed: hypertext theory (intended to look at hypertext as a realisation of postmodern/poststructuralist literary theory), cybertext theory (bridging electronic literature with computer games and some types of online narrative) and technotext theory (stressing the media-specific analysis and contextualisation of materiality). Later on, the paper focuses on three newly-formed studies that perceive electronic literature as part of new media art and stress the underlying computer processes as worthy of analysis: software studies, critical code studies, platform studies. These studies can offer one of the grounds for understanding electronic literature through a postmedial perspective. This introduction to the theoretical concepts of electronic literature research only provides an initial summary, so that the discourse of electronic literature in our cultural region can continue to gradually develop and also follow the trends of research into postdigital literary practice.
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Digital medieval studies summer school; Literature in the digital age conference — first year; Czech literature and film; Correction
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David L. Hoover — Jonathan Culpeper — Kieran O’Halloran: Digital Literary Studies — Corpus Approaches to Poetry, Prose, and Drama. New York/ London, Routledge 2014. 202 strany.
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Bogumiła Suwara (ed.): {(staré a nové) rozhrania /*interfejsy*/ [literatú- ry]}. Bratislava: Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV 2014. 248 strán.
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Alex Goody: Technology, Literature and Culture. Cambridge, Polity Press 2011. 193 strany
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Václav Hájek z Libočan: Kronika česká. Ed. Jan Linka, doslov Petr Voit. Praha, Academia 2013. 1447 stran + 1 CD
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Ondřej Sládek: Jan Mukařovský. Život a dílo. Brno, Host 2015. 451 strana + 32 strany obrazové přílohy.
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Olga Zitová: Thomas Mann und Ivan Olbracht. Der Einfluss von Manns Mythoskonzeption auf die karpatoukrainische Prosa des tschechischen Schriftstellers. Přel. Ilka Giertz. Stuttgart, ibidem-Verlag 2014 (= Literatur und Kultur im mittleren und östlichen Europa, 7). 144 strany.
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This study presents something of a “hybrid” chapter in the history of Czech surrealism, focusing both on the reception of surrealism outside the Prague centre and on the surrealists’ interest in the literary-artistic genre of the poetry book with photographs, which appeared in notable forms not only in the Czech “surrealist centre” (represented in the interwar period by the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia and the individual figures within it: Jindřich Heisler, Vítězslav Nezval, Jindřich Štyrský, Karel Teige and Toyen), but also (in a different sense) in marginal movements largely associated with surrealism (Linie in České Budějovice, the group surrounding Jaroslav Janík and Kamil Linhart in Louny, the Brno Ra-ists and Monstrualism in Žižkov). The aim is not to present clear conclusions or a summary, but on the basis of examples of selected works of poetry and photograpy from the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s to open up certain topics, issues and questions — thematically involving both specific manifestations of surrealism “on the margins” and various kinds of relations between text and photographs, which may become the subject of possible further research.
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This study, which is freely inspired by the results of thematological and cognitive linguistic research, observes the way the potential for relations between man and the external world of objects is realized in lyric poetry. Object motifs acquire a dimension of mood or value, which grows from practical experience with things and which then adheres to their designations in the form of secondary symbolic meanings. However, this does not just apply to individual objects, but to the entire in-depth time-space structure implied in language. For example, an opposition appears between horizontal and vertical, light and darkness and the like. Moreover, each of the members of these oppositions as a rule also indicates an internal value-ambivalence: e.g. “bright night” and “dark night” have different symbolism, “height” and “distance” are symbols of desire, but also of possible dangers and so forth. On this basis there arise stable but always poetically re-accentuated image parallels between the object world and human existence, as represented e.g. by the topos of the “journey” or the seasonal and diurnal cycle.
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Karel Havlíček and his correspondence; A trap for editors; Poems about places — places in poems; Centre for Information on Literary Studies and Czech Literary Studies Bibliography in 2015; Czech Literary Studies 2015 — An Enquete
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During the 1960s émigré publishers book output fell markedly, which contemporary émigré critics responded to by shifting their attention to fiction published by official domestic publishers. Although émigré critics, as opposed to those at home, were in direct contact with current developments in world literature, they did not know the conditions under which Czechoslovak authors were working (and in which Czechoslovak publishers were preparing their new books for publication) from their own experience. On the one hand this enabled them to see new Czech fiction in its worldwide context, but then again they often found themselves entirely outside the readers’ and writers’ communication axis (and communication codes). The author of this study clarifies the personnel situation in 1960s émigré criticism, its value criteria and complex relations with the developments at home that were slowly moving towards the Prague Spring in 1968.
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This paper summarizes, corrects and supplements knowledge of period foreignlanguage versions of the Legend of St. Prokop Sláva svatoprokopská by Fridrich Bridel (1619–1680). In particular, it presents two new findings: 1) it demonstrates that the belief, which has been passed down, in the alleged existence of a Latin version of Bridel’s Legend of St. Prokop entitled Scintilla gloriae S. Procopii is incorrect; 2) it provides information on the discovery of a previously unknown period translation of the first edition of Sláva svatoprokopská (1662) into German. A unique example of this German Legend of St. Prokop, which was published anonymously under the title Lob des heiligen Procopii in 1666 by Jesuit printers in Prague, has been preserved in the Rajhrad Benedictine Abbey library collection.
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This study responds to the current growth of interest in the landscape, whose roots in humanities research go back to the latter half of the 1980s. The first part of the text focuses on the issue of sense perception of the world, with substantial input inter alia from Maurice Merleau-Ponty and David Abram; the second part shifts its attention to the literary depiction of space and its literary studies reflections. A basis for the author’s reflections in the middle section of the work on the phenomenon of the literary landscape is a book by Kurt H. Weber Die literarische Landschaft. Zur Geschichte ihrer Entdeckung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart from 2010, which does not, however, maintain a sufficient distance between the perceived landscape, i.e. a certain segment of nature arranged in the direct view of the observer, and the landscape constructed by artificial means. In the conclusion to the study, the author provides his own definition of the literary landscape as a specific thematic component of literary work and points out the value of landscape descriptions in their semantic construction.
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Karel Komárek: Čep, Durych a několik příbuzných: interpretační studie. Olomouc, Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci 2014. 210 stran.
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