Arnošt Vilém Kraus zwischen Böhmen und Dänemark –                         eine Brücke, von der man auf Deutschland herabsieht

Březinová, Helena

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“…At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Arnošt Vilém Kraus (1859-1943), an enthusiast of Scandinavia who can undoubtedly be considered the founder of Scandinavian studies in Prague, promoted the Scandinavian states as models for the then non-existent Czech state (Březinová 2021;Lainto 2021). Around 1900, Kraus undertook several trips and excursions to Denmark, and in his report of 1902, he notes the loose manners of the maids in Funen, as quoted by Peter Bugge in an article on Kraus" image of Denmark: "The motto of the maids of Funen "natten er vores" [the night belongs to us!…”

Section: The Residual Image Of Equality Between the Sexesmentioning

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“It is more than needed in our country”. Contemporary Czech images of Scandinavia through the lens of literary criticism

Březinová

2023

10.1515/fsp

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Before the age of mass media and mass travel (including tourism), cultural stereotypes were formed and communicated predominantly utilizing literature and other written sources (Fischer 1987). Nowadays, people travel extensively; they can get direct information from radio, television, and social media, yet stereotypes still seem to prevail. The general Czech contemporary notion of Scandinavian societies comes to the fore in the reviews of translated Scandinavian literature and Scandinavian (or Nordic) films, written by professionals and published in the edited press or the largely unedited social media. In these reviews, one can discern certain paradigms that doubtlessly amount to stereotypes. In this article, I will present a qualitative discourse analysis of Scandinavian stereotypes in the Czech reception of the Scandinavian arts, especially literature, taking into account the intertextual and contextual aspects of the Scandinavian ethnotypes occurring in reviews and paratexts in Czech mass media. I focus on two explicitly addressed images: The emancipated Scandinavian woman, and the alleged Scandinavian egalitarianism. Finally, I will resort to Tzvetan Todorov’s typology of relations to the Other. I will try to explain the activist criticism of Czech reviewers, who tend to compare the Czech situation with the Scandinavian one, using Todorov’s three axes describing the relation to alterity.

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Section: The Residual Image Of Equality Between the Sexesmentioning

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“It is more than needed in our country”. Contemporary Czech images of Scandinavia through the lens of literary criticism

Březinová

2023

10.1515/fsp

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Brandes in the Czech-speaking World: Dismissed as a Critic, Embraced as a Name

Březinová¹,

Lainto²

2023

Auc Philologica

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In our contribution, we explore the Czech-speaking discourse related to Georg Brandes in the Bohemian Lands in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, which means before and shortly after Czechs gained their independence from Austria-Hungary in 1918. Our research of archival sources, especially periodicals and private letters, enables us to confidently claim that the impact of Brandes’s criticism on the Czech arts was rather insignificant. At the same time, the sources give a clear picture that the Czech-speaking intelligentsia were interested in using Brandes’s symbolic capital to promote their struggle for Czech cultural autonomy. Thus, it was not Brandes’s works that can be considered influential in the Czech context but his persona. This strategy of using Brandes’s symbolic capital mirrors his own efforts to be viewed as an international intermediary. Finally, we explore the East-West dynamics in Brandes’s relationship with Czechs and vice versa, and here, we identify a considerable asymmetry

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Arnošt Vilém Kraus zwischen Böhmen und Dänemark – eine Brücke, von der man auf Deutschland herabsieht

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“It is more than needed in our country”. Contemporary Czech images of Scandinavia through the lens of literary criticism

“It is more than needed in our country”. Contemporary Czech images of Scandinavia through the lens of literary criticism

Brandes in the Czech-speaking World: Dismissed as a Critic, Embraced as a Name

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