Publication details
The Soldier Who Prayed with Cards: The Czech Reception, 1800–2020
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | In this paper we will present the story of the text about the soldier and the cards in a global and local context. In the local aspect we will focus on the preserved Czech and German versions of the chapbook and analyse them in terms of structure, content (e.g. religious motifs), form and materiality. Special attention will be paid to the reception of the chapbook up to the present, including false identification of the story with a “real” character and parodies. Deck of cards chapbook we see as a typical example of intercultural exchange and a proof of “incompleteness” of popular literature, for which openness to further re-readings and re-interpretations is typical. The paper examines the reception of the story in the Czech lands and their immediate surroundings in two waves, in the nineteenth and in the twentieth/twenty-first centuries, and will tries to describe their common features and differences. |
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