The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the World Wars

edited by Ondrej Sládek and Michael Heim

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• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781433126277
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781453913970
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Literature

The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars tells the little-known story of the renaissance of Czech literary arts in the period between the two world wars. The avant-garde writers during this period broke down the barrier between the elite literary language and the vernacular and turned to spoken language, substandard forms, everyday sources such as newspapers and detective stories, and forms of popular entertainment such as the circus and the cabaret. In his analyses of the writings of this period, Thomas G. Winner illuminates the aesthetic and linguistic characteristics of these works and shows how poetry and linguistics can be combined. The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars is essential reading for courses on modern Czech literature, comparative literature, and Slavic literature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Preface
• Author’s Preface
• Editor’s Note
• Table of Contents
• Chapter One: Prologue: The Antecedents
• Chapter Two: The Proletarian Movement and the Evolution of Poetist Theory
• Chapter Three: The Poetist Practice of Vítězslav Nezval
• Chapter Four: The Poetist Practice of Jaroslav Seifert
• Chapter Five: The Poetist Prose of Vladislav Vančura
• Chapter Six: The Relation of the Prague Linguistic Circle to Poetism
• Chapter Seven: From Poetism to Surrealism
• Bibliography
• List of Cited Works Translated into English: Selection, Compiled by Ondřej Sládek
• Further Reading: Selection, Compiled by Ondřej Sládek