Faith, Truth, Fidelity

Vernost in Post-Munich Czech Poetry
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-525-36430-7
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 024, 310 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 636 g

Reihe: Schnittstellen

Though frequently acknowledged as a remarkable phase within Czech literary history, the poetic outpouring in the build-up to and aftermath of the Munich Agreement has received comparatively little rigorous scholarly attention to date. In this study, Frances Jackson seeks redress to the balance, drawing on a range of theoretical instruments, including the idea of the event in both a narratological and more philosophical sense, and notions of rhetoric and authenticity. She establishes vernost ("faith(fulness)", "loyalty", "verity", "troth" etc.) as the distinguishing feature of collections such as Seifert's Zhasnete svetla or Halas' Torzo nadeje and demonstrates how this can be constructed poetically. Rather than viewing the period as a watershed moment per se, the study also situates its output within the context of late modernism, highlighting important parallels with contemporaneous English-language works.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Frances

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Jackson, Frances
Frances Jackson studied German, Czech and East European Studies in Oxford, Brno and Munich. She lives and works in Munich.