Faith, truth, fidelity : : věrnost in post-Munich Czech poetry / / Frances Jackson.
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...
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Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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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.