Heterochronic Representation of Magic in Czech Chapbooks

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Heterochronic Representation of Magic in Czech Chapbooks

Original language description

Jiří Koten analyses the narration in three pairs of Czech chapbooks with the same topic, but originating in different historical periods (Chronicles of Bruncvík from 15th and 19th cenury; Faustus books from 16th and 19th century, Fortunatus from 16th and its free adaptation Zdeněk from Zásmuk from the end of 18th cenury). The author demonstrates that an analysis of narrative means can tell us much interesting about how popular narratives conceptualized magic. Only a fraction of the medieval or early modern cultural heritage was preserved in the nineteenth-century conception of magic. Magic in the nineteenth century ceased to provoke moralists and became simply an attractive theme evokig Romantic imagination. The modern adaptations also do not preserve the medieval and early modern world-view (that is the case of Fortunatus, whose story illustrates the mechanism of Fortune, as well as Chronicle of Bruncvík, where the depiction of magical creatures and objects not only reflects the medieval conception of nature, but also opens up the allegorical plan of the work). What survived, though, were the attractive magical motifs that found a second life in fairy-tales (the bottomless purse, the magical sword). Narrative tools on which narrative action is based also proved endurable. While sixteenth-century chapbooks (Faustus, Fortunatus) became the evolutionary predecessors of the modern novel (if only by constituting paranormal, almost realistic fictional world), eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chapbooks represent an evolutionary dead-end which survived by exploiting proven paradigms of older literature.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60204 - General literature studies

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

Book/collection name

Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time

ISBN

978-3-11-055607-0

Number of pages of the result

20

Pages from-to

684-703

Number of pages of the book

757

Publisher name

Walter de Gruyter

Place of publication

Boston - Berlin

UT code for WoS chapter

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