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Faith, Truth, Fidelity : Vnost in Post-Munich Czech Poetry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Frances.
- Series:
- Schnittstellen
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Czech poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Czech poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.).
- Place of Publication:
- Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022.
- 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' Ncová: 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
- Vnost: 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 Vnost
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Archival sources
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Jackson, Frances Faith, Truth, Fidelity
- ISBN:
- 9783647364308
- 3647364304
- Publisher Number:
- 99993153366
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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