The Fragile Signs of Historical Matter. On the Poetics of Old-Czech Narrative ‘Entertainingly Edifying’ Prose

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23366680.2025.2.2" target="_blank" >10.14712/23366680.2025.2.2</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Fragile Signs of Historical Matter. On the Poetics of Old-Czech Narrative ‘Entertainingly Edifying’ Prose

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This study explores the poetics of Old Czech narrative prose, focusing on how medieval vernacular texts navigate the instability between sign and meaning. Drawing on works such as Alexander, Apollonius of Tyre, and Griselda, it argues that these prose narratives were composed in a way that exposes the limits of representation, often functioning not as definitive moral exempla but as provocations inviting ethical and emotional reflection. Rather than merely translating content from Biblical or other (para)historiographical sources, these texts bring to the fore processes of adaptation and recontextualization that highlight their historically situated human origins. They emphasize literary performativity and narrative self-awareness, revealing their own fragility and partiality as textual constructs. Through their layered structure and ambivalent exemplarity, they resist straightforward allegorical readings, offering instead multidirectional engagements with textuality, narrativity, historical imagination, emotion, and identity. The author proceeds to make inferences about the ethical effect of medieval narrative prose in its efforts to evoke restraint and self-discipline in its readers, as well as playing to their inner complexity.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Fragile Signs of Historical Matter. On the Poetics of Old-Czech Narrative ‘Entertainingly Edifying’ Prose

Popis výsledku anglicky

This study explores the poetics of Old Czech narrative prose, focusing on how medieval vernacular texts navigate the instability between sign and meaning. Drawing on works such as Alexander, Apollonius of Tyre, and Griselda, it argues that these prose narratives were composed in a way that exposes the limits of representation, often functioning not as definitive moral exempla but as provocations inviting ethical and emotional reflection. Rather than merely translating content from Biblical or other (para)historiographical sources, these texts bring to the fore processes of adaptation and recontextualization that highlight their historically situated human origins. They emphasize literary performativity and narrative self-awareness, revealing their own fragility and partiality as textual constructs. Through their layered structure and ambivalent exemplarity, they resist straightforward allegorical readings, offering instead multidirectional engagements with textuality, narrativity, historical imagination, emotion, and identity. The author proceeds to make inferences about the ethical effect of medieval narrative prose in its efforts to evoke restraint and self-discipline in its readers, as well as playing to their inner complexity.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Slovo a smysl

ISSN

1214-7915

e-ISSN

2336-6680

Svazek periodika

22

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

47

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

31-43

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105033648307