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Zur literarischen Kommunikation in einem totalitären Regime am Beispiel von Paratexten in der Tschechoslowakei zwischen 1948-1989
| Title in English | On literary communication in the totalitarian regime using the example of paratexts in Czechoslovakia in the years 1948-1989 |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This article deals with literary communication (Šámal 2015) and the associated circumvention strategies in communist Czechoslovakia. Using a case study on the reception of texts by Group 47, the reception process of German-language literature in Czechoslovakia is examined and at the same time a more general analysis of the specific function of paratexts in the totalitarian regime is presented. From a reception science perspective, the Czechoslovak reception of German-language literature was problematic from the outset due to the cultural and political orientation in communist Czechoslovakia. In the case of the authors of Group 47, it was all the more complicated because additional ideological obstacles could be identified from the perspective of socialist censorship. It can be assumed that Czechoslovak editions of their works are suitable material for such case studies that aim to identify and describe in more detail the more general strategies of the respective actors in circumstances characterized by ideologically motivated censorship and political restrictions on freedom of expression (Smith/Wilson 2008). The aim of this lecture is therefore to describe the history of the reception of the authors of Group 47 and, above all, to point out similarities, insofar as they can be found, and differences in the reception of the respective authors, whereby the complexity of the literary reception processes and the diverse networking between individual actors who participate in literary communication in a totalitarian literary industry become the focus of reception research. |
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