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Tělesnost a moderní doba : příklad ruralismu

Title in English Corporeality and The Modern : The Example of Czech Ruralist Prose
Authors

DERKOVÁ Vladimíra KOTÁSEK Miroslav

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Bohemistyka
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://bohemistyka.pl/complete-issues/download/fc6cf1c0-7df6-4f08-b4ba-42f218e8dbc8.pdf
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/bo.2022.4.3
Keywords Czech literature; Ruralism; Modernism; Corporeality; Identity
Description The article focuses on cultural changes that the human body goes through in Modernism. It points at the main features of the current disourse of the body. It stresses the im por tance of medicine and psy cho lo gi cal dis cour ses of the time and their link with political dis course of na tio na li ty. The same relevance is found regarding the new visual massmedia – especially newspapers and photography. The general outline of the most relevant features of Modernity in connection with the human body is followed by a particular analysis of ruralist prose by František Křelina and Václav Prokůpek. The analysis points at the relevancy of literature disourse facing competition from new modes of representation (especially visual ones).
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