Reception of period cultural and literary trends in the prints of Slovak authors active in Bohemia at the turn of the 16th century (original) (raw)
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dalibor dobiáš-václav smyčka Compared with many other regions of Europe, discussions about literature and theatre in the Bohemian lands during the 18th century may at first glance appear bland. Indeed deep into the latter half of the 18th century, the traditional approach to the output of literary texts prevailed, with its normative rhetoric and poetics associated with the scholastic, primarily Latin, environment of the religious orders. For a long time, interest in contemporary Romance literature and theatre, and later in the new German trends (increasingly overlapping with those of the Romance languages), was limited to the odd elite circles, while literary and theatrical life in the Bohemian lands aroused but little interest beyond their borders. It was only in the 1770s, a decade later than in Vienna, that a public slowly formed in Prague around new journals written in German (and also exceptionally in Latin), who felt the need to discuss literature and questions of taste. Unlike Berlin, Leipzig and Jena, however, Prague never came to be home to a major internationally influential periodical. In contrast to Warsaw and its Polish periodicals, or even to what was then Upper Hungary (Slovakia), no independent journals appeared (outside the newspapers and Popular Enlightenment magazines) in a Slavic language until the early 19th century.
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