Publication details
In den Klauen des Doppeladlers. Mythen und ihre Antimythen, Mystifikation und Entmythologisierung in Mitteleuropa und im Donauraum am Beispiel Tschechiens
| Title in English | In the claws of the double-headed eagle. Myths and their anti-myths, mystification and demythologization in Central Europe and the Danubian realm: the Czech example |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Der Donauraum. Zeitschrift des Institutes für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://www.idm.at/publikationen/der-donauraum/der-donauraum-2013/item/der-gro%C3%9Fe-krieg-und-seine-mythen-im-donauraum-von-1914-bis-2014 |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Janáček; Hus; Masaryk; Hašek; Josef Jedlička; Gruša; Kundera; Busek;Joseph Roth; Franz Kafka; kafkaesk; L. Winder; Josef K; alienation; Sarajevo; assassination; mythe; Fall of Communisme; partititon of Czechoslovakia |
| Description | The study offers an analysis of several Czech literary figures as well as figures from German-language twentieth century literature from the Bohemian lands, considering their potential for fostering culture and myths in the country's collective memory with regard to the First World War and the person of crown prince Franz Ferdinand. It is noted that the only figure in the works of the first half of the twentieth century to be given a wider reception outside of literary narrative studies ist that of Švejk, which enjoys international renown. For the second half of twentieth century, the national-local cultural space appears to be dominated by the Cimrman myth, which is far less well known abroad. This myth survived the era known as the Normalization after 1968, the Fall of Communism in 1989 and the partition of Czechoslovakia in 1993. It still plays an imortant formative role for Czech self-perception by way of dialectically combining "Austria nostralgia" with the emancipatory national idea |
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