Prague as a Cultural Center for Slavic Women Writers

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angličtina

Original language name

Prague as a Cultural Center for Slavic Women Writers

Original language description

Prague till the second half of the 19th century it became the vivid cultural center where women authors from different countries met and had the possibility of pursuing their writing carrier. It was also the city of strong Slavic contacts with the powerful history of panslavism. The 19th century was also the time when Slavic national ideas were formed and talented women appear who want to take part in implementing various national ideas and realizing the ideal of improving the world. In the paper we deal with various women writers in Prague: Pole Honorata Zapová née Wiśniowska (1825-1856) who lived in Prague and was working on contacts between Polish and Czech literature, Poles Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841-1910) and Maria Konopnicka (1842-1910), who were deeply connected to Czech culture and Czech women writers and established close contact with several outstanding Czech women during that time and Slovene Zofka Kveder (1879-1926), great cultural mediator, who lived in Prague for some years and realised her writing carrier also due to contacts with Czech woman writers. As is evident, female authors from the Slavic countries were connected to each other by personal sympathies as well as gender solidarity: that phenomena was part of the intellectual feminism in Prague. The contacts were also due to slavic reciprority. Prague was the birthplace of Kollár&apos;s philosophy and, in different variations, his vision was still vividly present in the Czech cultural and literal sphere until the beginning of the 20th Century. One of the reasons behind the formation of this special women writers literary community was the relatively open-minded atmosphere in Prague at that time which was, similar to Vienna, a crossroad of nations and varied cultural exchanges. That was the atmosphere that stimulated gender-otherness and creativity, along with the active women&apos;s literal community in the Czech cultural system. Prague was always one of the vivid cultural Central European metropolis of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Not till the second half of the 19th century it became the vivid cultural center where women authors from different countries met and had the possibility of pursuing their writing carrier. It was also the city of strong Slavic contacts with the powerful history of panslavism. The purposes and motivations of Slav women writers in Prague related to each other and constructed creative literal networks, changing over time: in the 20th Century, women writer solidarity was not so much due to Slavic ideas and national movements as in the second half of the 19th Century. They connected to each other more because of feminist beliefs and ideas, as well as gender solidarity. These fruitful connections occurred within the new context of European modernism.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60205 - Literary theory

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Wiek XIX : Rocznik Towarzystwa literackiego imienia Adama Mickiewicza

ISSN

2080-0851

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

51

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

279-296

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