Ideological Travelogue: Machar’s Image of Rome in its Historical Context

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ideological Travelogue: Machar’s Image of Rome in its Historical Context
Original language description
This chapter is a case study illustrating the ideological distortion of the travelogue genre. Using the example of the text Rome by Czech author Josef Svatopluk Machar, the author demonstrates his a priori approach to historical and intellectual concepts of antiquity and Christianity. He contrasts them and constructs his travel book Rome as a testament to his admiration for ancient culture. He considers everything that came with the Christian era to be merely decadent. The work documents contemporary criticism that opposed this method of writing travelogues. Nevertheless, the book enjoyed great popularity among readers and was reprinted twelve times over the course of a decade. Negative reviews could have given the impression that the book Rome was doomed to failure with readers, but the opposite happened: Machar's ideological narrator managed to convince readers not only of the appeal of the travelogue genre, but also of its potential to be transformed into a platform for expressing opinions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
The Mediterranean in Travel Literature. Central European Travellers in the Mediterranean from the 17th Century to the Beginning of the 20th century
ISBN
978-88-328-3588-5
Number of pages of the result
12
Pages from-to
87-98
Number of pages of the book
195
Publisher name
Forum. Societá editrice universitaria udinese
Place of publication
Udine
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