Publication details
Mezinárodní vědecká konference Dnešní svět zítřejšíma očima
| Title in English | International Scholarly Conference “Today's World Through The Eyes Of Tomorrow" |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Conference |
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| Description | Nowadays, fantastic literature is an influential cultural phenomenon. Not only is it gaining popularity, but also becoming more colourful in attitudes and methods – fantastic elements are an indivisible part of a significant share of contemporary literature. Its theoretic study has been quite underestimated and marginalized in the Czech environment, especially when it comes to the texts under the heading of "science fiction" or "fantasy", despite the fact they may have very little in common with trivial literature. To a great extent, this leads to an artificial barrier between different types of fantastic literature, which is based on external rather than internal criteria. We believe that fantastic literature has a potential to both fully and urgently express the inexpressible within the common literary approaches. We would like to encourage expert discussion on the phenomenon of fantastic literature, thus we are following up on the student conferences organized by our institute in the years of 2009 and 2011 with an international conference. |
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