Heterochronic Representation of Magic in Czech Chapbooks

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Heterochronic Representation of Magic in Czech Chapbooks

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Heterochronic Representation of Magic in Czech Chapbooks

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60204 - General literature studies

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

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

ISBN

978-3-11-055607-0

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

684-703

Počet stran knihy

757

Název nakladatele

Walter de Gruyter

Místo vydání

Boston - Berlin

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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