Faith, truth, fidelity : : věrnost in post-Munich Czech poetry / / Frances Jackson.

• Superior document: Schnittstellen
• VerfasserIn: Jackson, Frances,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : V&R Unipress,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Schnittstellen
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (311 pages)

Though frequently acknowledged as a remarkable phase within Czech literary history, the poetic outpouring in the build-up to and aftermath of the Munich Agreement has received comparatively little rigorous scholarly attention to date. In this study, Frances Jackson seeks redress to the balance, draw...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Introduction
• Narrative Beginnings
• Historical Background
• Why Poetry?
• Keeping the Faith
• The Poets
• The Poetry
• Room for Improvement
• 1. Poetic Events and Eventfulness
• The Event as an Analytical Category
• Incomplete and Outside Events
• Pomp and Circumstance
• (Do Not) Expect the Unexpected
• Badiou's Category of the Event
• Poems as Events in Their Own Right
• 2. Figural Show and Tell
• Homeward Bound
• Theories of the Allegoric Mode
• Allegory, Allegoresis or Something More?
• The Stuff of Nightmares
• Swarms of Swabians
• Metaphorically Speaking
• When Disaster Strikes
• Fictio Personae
• Let Them Speak or Forever Hold Their Peace
• Personifying Prague
• 3. Shaping a Poetic Past and Future Present
• Differing Approaches to Memory
• Language Issues
• Memory Studies and Literature
• The Speaker Recalls
• Looking Forward to Looking Back
• Poetic Monuments to the Past and Present
• Repurposing the Past
• Places of Memory
• (Grand-)Mother of the Nation
• Formal Differences
• Seifert's Maternal Vision
• Halas' Němcová: All Things to All Men
• 4. Rhetorical Authenticity
• The Art of Rhetoric
• The Rhetorical Situation
• An Air of the Authentic
• Paradox and Artificiality
• Fluctuating Forms of Authenticity
• Authenticity of Expression, Experience and Execution
• Věrnost: When Rhetoric Met Authenticity
• The Speaker as One Who Remembers
• The Speaker as One Who Mourns
• The Speaker as One Who Speaks On Behalf of Others
• The Speaker as One Who Tells the Truth
• History in the Making
• Competing Truths
• 5. A Break with the Past?
• Where to Draw the Line?
• History Relived and Rewritten
• Cracks, Fissures and Shifting Planes
• A Feast For All of the Senses
• Longing For What is No More (But Might Be Again).
• 6. Late Modernism - Not an End but an Alternative
• W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice
• Birds and Books of a Feather?
• Auden's Another Time
• MacNeice's Autumn Journal
• War on the Wireless
• The Case of the Missing Věrnost
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Archival sources
• Primary sources
• Secondary sources
• Acknowledgements
• Index.