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Norbert Bachleitner, Censorship of Literature in Austria, 1751-1848. Leiden: Brill 2022., May 30, 2022
Cover illustration: A session with Gottfried van Swieten in the Camera praefecti. Illustration by... more Cover illustration: A session with Gottfried van Swieten in the Camera praefecti. Illustration by Adam Bartsch (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Bildarchiv und Grafiksammlung, shelfmark 92.781-D).
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Michael Wögerbauer, Petr Píša, Petr Šámal, Pavel Janáček et al: V obecném zájmu. Cenzura a sociální regulace literatury v moderní české kultuře. 1749–2014. [[ In the Public Interest. Censorship and the Social Regulation of Literature in Modern Czech Culture. 1749–2014. ]] Praha 2015. 2 vol, 1661 p
V obecném zájmu. Cenzura a sociální regulace literatury v moderní české kultuře. 1749–2014, 2015
Histoire et civilisation du livre, Jan 12, 2008
La vernacularisation comme alternative au concept d'« éveil national » ? L'exemple de la Bohême 1... more La vernacularisation comme alternative au concept d'« éveil national » ? L'exemple de la Bohême 1 L'objectif de cette analyse est de présenter le concept de vernacularisation dans ses traits principaux, et de voir s'il autorise une approche renouvelée des transformations culturelles qui se produisent en pays tchèques à la fin du XVIII e et au début du XIX e siècle. La vernacularisation ne peut pas être conçue comme un « autre» récit de l'éveil national. L'utilisation du concept devrait permettre de renverser une narration téléologiquement orientée vers une fin connue d'avance: la naissance de la nation. La vernacularisation offre une vue génético-évolutive sur la façon dont les choses se sont transformées selon les régions et selon les époques. Dans toute la monarchie des Habsbourg, et pas seulement en Bohême, la première moitié du XVIII e siècle peut apparaître comme l'époque d'une culture érudite et de représentation de type latinoromane qui, malgré des spécificités locales, reste «suprarégionale» et élitaire. Les cultures locales vernaculaires s'émancipent progressivement de cette culture cosmopolite tout en s'y rattachant, en s'appropriant et en adaptant ses modèles « classiques». Elles en imitent les pratiques, leur donnant un épanouissement et des directions nouvelles. CONTINUITÉ DU PARADIGME DE LA LANGUE DANS L'HISTORIOGRAPHIE L'époque de l'«éveil national» ou de la «renaissance nationale», qui correspond à la fin du XVIII e et au XIX e siècle, constitue une singularité historiographique propre à certaines nations européennes. Dans les régions où un mouvement national s'imposa, par exemple dans les pays tchèques, les acteurs de ce mouvement s'appuyèrent largement, dans leur combat pour l'émancipation politique d'un groupe social défini par sa langue, sur l'interprétation de leur propre rôle dans l'histoire. Or, bien plus tard, l'historiographie s'appropriait 1 Cette étude a été réalisée dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche de l'Institut pour la Littérature tchèque de l'Académie des sciences de la République tchèque (AVOZ 90560517).
Kommunikation und Information im 18. Jahrhundert: das Beispiel der Habsburgermonarchie
... Was ein Bibliothekskatalog über barocke Textzirkulation erzählt 101 Ilona Pavercsik (Budapest... more ... Was ein Bibliothekskatalog über barocke Textzirkulation erzählt 101 Ilona Pavercsik (Budapest): Bücherverkauf in einer Pester Buchhandlung 17861787: Veränderte sich tatsächlich der Lesergeschmack? 119 Jin Pokorny (Prag): Die Literaturproduktion in Böhmen im 18. ...
Prague press as a place of the "symbiosis of Czechs, Germans and Jews". The journalist Pavel Eisner and quantitative analysis of his works (1917-1938)
Based on an analysis of Paul Eisner's (1889-1958) idea of the "symbiosis of Czechs, Germ... more Based on an analysis of Paul Eisner's (1889-1958) idea of the "symbiosis of Czechs, Germans and Jews" in the First Czechoslovak republic, this article presents a quantitative analysis of the medial strategies Paul Eisner chose in order to intensify the cultural exchange between the Czech and German culture in Czechoslovak periodicals (1917-1938)
Popularizing knowledge, censoring opinion? The access to print in the Bohemian Lands (1770–1815)
Jewish Culture and History, 2012
In the Habsburg Empire, members of both ‘religions of the book’ – Christians and Jews – gained in... more In the Habsburg Empire, members of both ‘religions of the book’ – Christians and Jews – gained increased access to the printed word towards the end of the eighteenth century. This paper examines the period between the Seven Years War and the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, focusing on the role the printed word began to play in the Bohemian Lands, especially Prague, and how print culture affected mainly the Christian majority on its way to a modern secular society. It first examines the enormous meaning the printed word had for both Christianity and Judaism and the ways in which the increasing production and consumption of printed texts from about 1770 also implied damaging the ‘aura’ of the Scripture and its traditional custodians. It then sketches the factors and institutions responsible for the growth of an enlightened reading public. The optimistic discourse that circulated in bookshops, libraries, newspapers, reading circles and so on supported a rational, non-exclusive consensus even on quite controversial questions such as the integration of the Jews into the self-representation of society and its history. However, it is also argued on the basis of a previously unknown anti-Jewish pamphlet (1812) from Prague that this development was frustrated at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the weak impact of the Enlightenment, by the ‘national defeat’ in the wars against France and by economic modernization, state bankruptcy and the resulting existential insecurity. Not only state authorities, but also the exponents of the Enlightenment and the Haskalah themselves seem to have changed their view of the public sphere: it came to represent not just a marketplace of progressive ideas but, on the contrary, a growing threat to peaceful political, social and ethnic relations.
Cornova. Revue české společnosti pro výzkum 18. století, 2021
The issue 2/2021 of Cornova is dedicated to the journal's namesake, Ignaz Cornova (25.7.1740 - 25... more The issue 2/2021 of Cornova is dedicated to the journal's namesake, Ignaz Cornova (25.7.1740 - 25.7.1822), a Prague native of Italian origin, whose death anniversary this year is the 200th. Through the prism of this personality, five studies capture many seemingly contradictory features of the 18th century in the Bohemian Lands. Intellectually, Cornova grew up in the Jesuit order and became an enthusiastic enlightener who also promoted his ideas as a writer and publicist - he also wrote about the Prague Orphanage, which he co-founded as a prominent Freemason. He was a celebrated poet and playwright, but also worked as a professor of history at Prague University. In all these roles, Cornovo was imbued with both Bohemian national patriotism and Austrian dynastic patriotism.
Cornova is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on 18th century studies. It is published twice a year by the Czech Society for the Study of the Eighteenth Century and the CAS Institute of Czech Literature. Since its foundation in 2011, Cornova has been an international scholarly journal focusing on Central Europe in a broader context. The aim of the journal is to present methodologically sophisticated studies based on original research and touching on current issues in eighteenth-century scholarship, and to promote their theoretical reflection.
The journal publishes texts in Czech, English, German and French with abstracts in English.
Cornova. Revue české společnosti pro výzkum 18. století, 2021
Issue 1/2021 contains a wide range of contributions - Kateřina Smyčková analyses the surprisingly... more Issue 1/2021 contains a wide range of contributions - Kateřina Smyčková analyses the surprisingly close relationship of the songs of Czech exiles from the end of the 17th century to Catholic hymnbooks. Jaroslav Stanovský presents Maximilian Count Lamberg as a "cosmopolitan between Europe and Moravia". Radka Heisslerová analyses an interesting source - the 1770/1771 census of the population of the New Town of Prague - in relation to painters and similar professions. And last but not least, the study by Vít Pecek deals with an extremely topical subject - the priestly celibate as discussed by Czech theologians of the 18th century.
Cornova is a peer-reviewed professional journal focusing on 18th century research. It is published twice a year by the Czech Society for Research on the Eighteenth Century and the Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Since its foundation in 2011, Cornova has been an international scholarly journal with an emphasis on Central Europe in a broader context. The aim of the journal is to present methodologically sophisticated studies based on original research and touching upon current issues in eighteenth-century scholarship and to promote their theoretical reflection. The journal publishes texts in Czech, English, German and French with abstracts in English.
Welche Grenzen braucht das Buch? Die Regulierung des Buchwesens als Mittel der Selbstkonstruktion der Habsburgermonarchie (1750–1790)
Cornova, 2013
This article deals with the role of books in the Habsburg Monarchy during the reign of Maria Ther... more This article deals with the role of books in the Habsburg Monarchy during the reign of Maria Theresa (1740–1780) and Joseph II (1766–1790) as a means of nation-building. In this sense, we try to show that their ‘book policy’ tended to diminish internal frontiers by aligning the boundaries of the book market with state -based frontiers, and by regulating and controlling the production and diffusion of information. The article re -reads and contextualizes their legislation on book culture as a means to culturally, politically and economically unify the Austrian hereditary lands and turn them into a centralized state. The challenge was to bring book culture, hitherto widely controlled by the Catholic Church, under state control, and to provide every single text with a history in order to be able to identify its origin and force book producers to regulate themselves. In addition, state policies put an emphasis on privileging the domestic book market, which had to face strong competition from outside the Habsburg Monarchy. This facilitated both the commercial success of the book business, and better control over the ideological content disseminated through literature.
Litteratura Duplex. Ein Konzept der tschechischen und deutschen Literatur im Prag im letzten Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts
Nationale Literaturgeschichte(n) werden traditionell in einen doppelten Rahmen eingeschrieben: de... more Nationale Literaturgeschichte(n) werden traditionell in einen doppelten Rahmen eingeschrieben: den der Sprachnation und der ästhetischen Originalität. Die Studie unternimmt dagegen den Versuch, das mehrsprachige Prag am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts als eine kulturelle Mikroregion mit einer zweifachen "Litteratura duplex" zu beschreiben: ab 1760 kommt es zu einem wechselseitigen Kulturtransfer zwischen der internationalen, vielsprachigen Hochkultur und den wieder zu entdeckenden Landestraditionen, bei denen vor allem deutsch- und tschechischsprachige Schrifttraditionen aktualisiert werden. So entstehen schrittweise Strukturen einer kulturellen bzw. literarischen Öffentlichkeit, die sich vor allem auch an einfache Leserschichten wendet. Um 1800 zeichnen sich schon zwei Landesliteraturen ab, deren Charakteristika sich zunehmend von einander abheben, wenngleich langfristig noch die Parallelen zwischen ihnen überwiegen (veröffentlichte Version)
„Ein unaufhörlicher literairischer Kampf […] könnte die öffentliche Sicherheit stöhren und die gesellschaftliche Eintracht vermindern.“: Zwei Fallstudien zur Zensurpraxis zwischen antijüdischem Diskurs und literarischer Öffentlichkeit um 1800
Vernakularizace – alternativa ke konceptu národního obrození?
Ceska Literatura, 2008
This study introduces the concept of vernacularization in the context of the literary history of ... more This study introduces the concept of vernacularization in the context of the literary history of Bohemia around 1800. National philologists, to some extent until today, examine this literature based on 19th-century national and aesthetic criteria (i.e. the notion of „genius“, originality etc.) which, as the author argues, do not suit an analysis of multi-lingual pre-Romantic culture. Without intending to replace the popular and politically relevant narrative of the National Revival, the concept of vernacularization attempts to generate a comparatively oriented discussion regarding the transition (beginning around 1760) from the multi-lingual cultures of a stratified society (the nobility, the clergy, the common people etc.) into separate, linguistically defined regional and subsequently national cultures and especially national literatures in the first half of the 19th century. Vernacularization is defined as a form of knowledge transfer between cultures considered to have different...
O racionálních strategiích v experimentální poezii, literární vědě a mediální společnosti (S.J. Schmidta se ptali A. Jedličková a M. Wögerbauer)
Siegfried J. Schmidt (b. 1940), a German philosopher, media theorist, and experimental poet, is i... more Siegfried J. Schmidt (b. 1940), a German philosopher, media theorist, and experimental poet, is interviewed here by Michael Wogerbauer and Alice Jedlickova. They discuss experimental poetry and Schmidt’s contacts with the Czech experimental poets Bohumila Grogerova (b. 1921), and Josef Hirsal (1920–2003), and the literary context of the 1960s, the relationship between experimental poetry and literary theory, what the World Wide Web means for the reception of texts, and the many changes that the Web has brought with regard to literature and its perception, the great turning-point in the media, and, last but not least, the untenability of the contemporary conception of teaching literature.
Nebezpečná literatura? : antologie z myšlení o literární cenzuře
V obecném zájmu : cenzura a sociální regulace literatury vmoderní české kultuře 1749-2014
Die Geschichte der Prager Zeitschrift „Der Kranz“ (1821–1824) und das Scheitern ihrer Nachfolgeprojekte „Elpore“, „Der Pilger“ und „Bohemia“
The course plan for the first chair of'schoene wissenschaften'in the habsburg monarchy: Seibt's application for a professorship at prague, 1763
„Nur schade, daß ich hier so ganz im Dunkeln lebe“: Systemtheoretische Betrachtungen zum Problem literarischer Peripherie anhand des Meißner-Göschen-Briefwechsels
Norbert Bachleitner, Censorship of Literature in Austria, 1751-1848. Leiden: Brill 2022., May 30, 2022
Cover illustration: A session with Gottfried van Swieten in the Camera praefecti. Illustration by... more Cover illustration: A session with Gottfried van Swieten in the Camera praefecti. Illustration by Adam Bartsch (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Bildarchiv und Grafiksammlung, shelfmark 92.781-D).
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Michael Wögerbauer, Petr Píša, Petr Šámal, Pavel Janáček et al: V obecném zájmu. Cenzura a sociální regulace literatury v moderní české kultuře. 1749–2014. [[ In the Public Interest. Censorship and the Social Regulation of Literature in Modern Czech Culture. 1749–2014. ]] Praha 2015. 2 vol, 1661 p
V obecném zájmu. Cenzura a sociální regulace literatury v moderní české kultuře. 1749–2014, 2015
Histoire et civilisation du livre, Jan 12, 2008
La vernacularisation comme alternative au concept d'« éveil national » ? L'exemple de la Bohême 1... more La vernacularisation comme alternative au concept d'« éveil national » ? L'exemple de la Bohême 1 L'objectif de cette analyse est de présenter le concept de vernacularisation dans ses traits principaux, et de voir s'il autorise une approche renouvelée des transformations culturelles qui se produisent en pays tchèques à la fin du XVIII e et au début du XIX e siècle. La vernacularisation ne peut pas être conçue comme un « autre» récit de l'éveil national. L'utilisation du concept devrait permettre de renverser une narration téléologiquement orientée vers une fin connue d'avance: la naissance de la nation. La vernacularisation offre une vue génético-évolutive sur la façon dont les choses se sont transformées selon les régions et selon les époques. Dans toute la monarchie des Habsbourg, et pas seulement en Bohême, la première moitié du XVIII e siècle peut apparaître comme l'époque d'une culture érudite et de représentation de type latinoromane qui, malgré des spécificités locales, reste «suprarégionale» et élitaire. Les cultures locales vernaculaires s'émancipent progressivement de cette culture cosmopolite tout en s'y rattachant, en s'appropriant et en adaptant ses modèles « classiques». Elles en imitent les pratiques, leur donnant un épanouissement et des directions nouvelles. CONTINUITÉ DU PARADIGME DE LA LANGUE DANS L'HISTORIOGRAPHIE L'époque de l'«éveil national» ou de la «renaissance nationale», qui correspond à la fin du XVIII e et au XIX e siècle, constitue une singularité historiographique propre à certaines nations européennes. Dans les régions où un mouvement national s'imposa, par exemple dans les pays tchèques, les acteurs de ce mouvement s'appuyèrent largement, dans leur combat pour l'émancipation politique d'un groupe social défini par sa langue, sur l'interprétation de leur propre rôle dans l'histoire. Or, bien plus tard, l'historiographie s'appropriait 1 Cette étude a été réalisée dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche de l'Institut pour la Littérature tchèque de l'Académie des sciences de la République tchèque (AVOZ 90560517).
Kommunikation und Information im 18. Jahrhundert: das Beispiel der Habsburgermonarchie
... Was ein Bibliothekskatalog über barocke Textzirkulation erzählt 101 Ilona Pavercsik (Budapest... more ... Was ein Bibliothekskatalog über barocke Textzirkulation erzählt 101 Ilona Pavercsik (Budapest): Bücherverkauf in einer Pester Buchhandlung 17861787: Veränderte sich tatsächlich der Lesergeschmack? 119 Jin Pokorny (Prag): Die Literaturproduktion in Böhmen im 18. ...
Prague press as a place of the "symbiosis of Czechs, Germans and Jews". The journalist Pavel Eisner and quantitative analysis of his works (1917-1938)
Based on an analysis of Paul Eisner's (1889-1958) idea of the "symbiosis of Czechs, Germ... more Based on an analysis of Paul Eisner's (1889-1958) idea of the "symbiosis of Czechs, Germans and Jews" in the First Czechoslovak republic, this article presents a quantitative analysis of the medial strategies Paul Eisner chose in order to intensify the cultural exchange between the Czech and German culture in Czechoslovak periodicals (1917-1938)
Popularizing knowledge, censoring opinion? The access to print in the Bohemian Lands (1770–1815)
Jewish Culture and History, 2012
In the Habsburg Empire, members of both ‘religions of the book’ – Christians and Jews – gained in... more In the Habsburg Empire, members of both ‘religions of the book’ – Christians and Jews – gained increased access to the printed word towards the end of the eighteenth century. This paper examines the period between the Seven Years War and the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, focusing on the role the printed word began to play in the Bohemian Lands, especially Prague, and how print culture affected mainly the Christian majority on its way to a modern secular society. It first examines the enormous meaning the printed word had for both Christianity and Judaism and the ways in which the increasing production and consumption of printed texts from about 1770 also implied damaging the ‘aura’ of the Scripture and its traditional custodians. It then sketches the factors and institutions responsible for the growth of an enlightened reading public. The optimistic discourse that circulated in bookshops, libraries, newspapers, reading circles and so on supported a rational, non-exclusive consensus even on quite controversial questions such as the integration of the Jews into the self-representation of society and its history. However, it is also argued on the basis of a previously unknown anti-Jewish pamphlet (1812) from Prague that this development was frustrated at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the weak impact of the Enlightenment, by the ‘national defeat’ in the wars against France and by economic modernization, state bankruptcy and the resulting existential insecurity. Not only state authorities, but also the exponents of the Enlightenment and the Haskalah themselves seem to have changed their view of the public sphere: it came to represent not just a marketplace of progressive ideas but, on the contrary, a growing threat to peaceful political, social and ethnic relations.
Cornova. Revue české společnosti pro výzkum 18. století, 2021
The issue 2/2021 of Cornova is dedicated to the journal's namesake, Ignaz Cornova (25.7.1740 - 25... more The issue 2/2021 of Cornova is dedicated to the journal's namesake, Ignaz Cornova (25.7.1740 - 25.7.1822), a Prague native of Italian origin, whose death anniversary this year is the 200th. Through the prism of this personality, five studies capture many seemingly contradictory features of the 18th century in the Bohemian Lands. Intellectually, Cornova grew up in the Jesuit order and became an enthusiastic enlightener who also promoted his ideas as a writer and publicist - he also wrote about the Prague Orphanage, which he co-founded as a prominent Freemason. He was a celebrated poet and playwright, but also worked as a professor of history at Prague University. In all these roles, Cornovo was imbued with both Bohemian national patriotism and Austrian dynastic patriotism.
Cornova is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on 18th century studies. It is published twice a year by the Czech Society for the Study of the Eighteenth Century and the CAS Institute of Czech Literature. Since its foundation in 2011, Cornova has been an international scholarly journal focusing on Central Europe in a broader context. The aim of the journal is to present methodologically sophisticated studies based on original research and touching on current issues in eighteenth-century scholarship, and to promote their theoretical reflection.
The journal publishes texts in Czech, English, German and French with abstracts in English.
Cornova. Revue české společnosti pro výzkum 18. století, 2021
Issue 1/2021 contains a wide range of contributions - Kateřina Smyčková analyses the surprisingly... more Issue 1/2021 contains a wide range of contributions - Kateřina Smyčková analyses the surprisingly close relationship of the songs of Czech exiles from the end of the 17th century to Catholic hymnbooks. Jaroslav Stanovský presents Maximilian Count Lamberg as a "cosmopolitan between Europe and Moravia". Radka Heisslerová analyses an interesting source - the 1770/1771 census of the population of the New Town of Prague - in relation to painters and similar professions. And last but not least, the study by Vít Pecek deals with an extremely topical subject - the priestly celibate as discussed by Czech theologians of the 18th century.
Cornova is a peer-reviewed professional journal focusing on 18th century research. It is published twice a year by the Czech Society for Research on the Eighteenth Century and the Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Since its foundation in 2011, Cornova has been an international scholarly journal with an emphasis on Central Europe in a broader context. The aim of the journal is to present methodologically sophisticated studies based on original research and touching upon current issues in eighteenth-century scholarship and to promote their theoretical reflection. The journal publishes texts in Czech, English, German and French with abstracts in English.
Welche Grenzen braucht das Buch? Die Regulierung des Buchwesens als Mittel der Selbstkonstruktion der Habsburgermonarchie (1750–1790)
Cornova, 2013
This article deals with the role of books in the Habsburg Monarchy during the reign of Maria Ther... more This article deals with the role of books in the Habsburg Monarchy during the reign of Maria Theresa (1740–1780) and Joseph II (1766–1790) as a means of nation-building. In this sense, we try to show that their ‘book policy’ tended to diminish internal frontiers by aligning the boundaries of the book market with state -based frontiers, and by regulating and controlling the production and diffusion of information. The article re -reads and contextualizes their legislation on book culture as a means to culturally, politically and economically unify the Austrian hereditary lands and turn them into a centralized state. The challenge was to bring book culture, hitherto widely controlled by the Catholic Church, under state control, and to provide every single text with a history in order to be able to identify its origin and force book producers to regulate themselves. In addition, state policies put an emphasis on privileging the domestic book market, which had to face strong competition from outside the Habsburg Monarchy. This facilitated both the commercial success of the book business, and better control over the ideological content disseminated through literature.
Litteratura Duplex. Ein Konzept der tschechischen und deutschen Literatur im Prag im letzten Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts
Nationale Literaturgeschichte(n) werden traditionell in einen doppelten Rahmen eingeschrieben: de... more Nationale Literaturgeschichte(n) werden traditionell in einen doppelten Rahmen eingeschrieben: den der Sprachnation und der ästhetischen Originalität. Die Studie unternimmt dagegen den Versuch, das mehrsprachige Prag am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts als eine kulturelle Mikroregion mit einer zweifachen "Litteratura duplex" zu beschreiben: ab 1760 kommt es zu einem wechselseitigen Kulturtransfer zwischen der internationalen, vielsprachigen Hochkultur und den wieder zu entdeckenden Landestraditionen, bei denen vor allem deutsch- und tschechischsprachige Schrifttraditionen aktualisiert werden. So entstehen schrittweise Strukturen einer kulturellen bzw. literarischen Öffentlichkeit, die sich vor allem auch an einfache Leserschichten wendet. Um 1800 zeichnen sich schon zwei Landesliteraturen ab, deren Charakteristika sich zunehmend von einander abheben, wenngleich langfristig noch die Parallelen zwischen ihnen überwiegen (veröffentlichte Version)
„Ein unaufhörlicher literairischer Kampf […] könnte die öffentliche Sicherheit stöhren und die gesellschaftliche Eintracht vermindern.“: Zwei Fallstudien zur Zensurpraxis zwischen antijüdischem Diskurs und literarischer Öffentlichkeit um 1800
Vernakularizace – alternativa ke konceptu národního obrození?
Ceska Literatura, 2008
This study introduces the concept of vernacularization in the context of the literary history of ... more This study introduces the concept of vernacularization in the context of the literary history of Bohemia around 1800. National philologists, to some extent until today, examine this literature based on 19th-century national and aesthetic criteria (i.e. the notion of „genius“, originality etc.) which, as the author argues, do not suit an analysis of multi-lingual pre-Romantic culture. Without intending to replace the popular and politically relevant narrative of the National Revival, the concept of vernacularization attempts to generate a comparatively oriented discussion regarding the transition (beginning around 1760) from the multi-lingual cultures of a stratified society (the nobility, the clergy, the common people etc.) into separate, linguistically defined regional and subsequently national cultures and especially national literatures in the first half of the 19th century. Vernacularization is defined as a form of knowledge transfer between cultures considered to have different...
O racionálních strategiích v experimentální poezii, literární vědě a mediální společnosti (S.J. Schmidta se ptali A. Jedličková a M. Wögerbauer)
Siegfried J. Schmidt (b. 1940), a German philosopher, media theorist, and experimental poet, is i... more Siegfried J. Schmidt (b. 1940), a German philosopher, media theorist, and experimental poet, is interviewed here by Michael Wogerbauer and Alice Jedlickova. They discuss experimental poetry and Schmidt’s contacts with the Czech experimental poets Bohumila Grogerova (b. 1921), and Josef Hirsal (1920–2003), and the literary context of the 1960s, the relationship between experimental poetry and literary theory, what the World Wide Web means for the reception of texts, and the many changes that the Web has brought with regard to literature and its perception, the great turning-point in the media, and, last but not least, the untenability of the contemporary conception of teaching literature.
Nebezpečná literatura? : antologie z myšlení o literární cenzuře
V obecném zájmu : cenzura a sociální regulace literatury vmoderní české kultuře 1749-2014
Die Geschichte der Prager Zeitschrift „Der Kranz“ (1821–1824) und das Scheitern ihrer Nachfolgeprojekte „Elpore“, „Der Pilger“ und „Bohemia“
The course plan for the first chair of'schoene wissenschaften'in the habsburg monarchy: Seibt's application for a professorship at prague, 1763
„Nur schade, daß ich hier so ganz im Dunkeln lebe“: Systemtheoretische Betrachtungen zum Problem literarischer Peripherie anhand des Meißner-Göschen-Briefwechsels