Historická perspektiva v literární kritice — k proměně kritického psaní Arna Nováka v desátých letech // The historical perspective in the literary criticism — toward the change of Arne Novák’s practice of criticism in the 1910s

Abstract

The paper focuses on some aspects of Arne Novák’s practice of criticism in the 1910s, especially on the issue of applying a historical perspective while judging contemporary literary production. The transformation of this perspective in the confrontation with newborn avant-garde concepts (completing the vision of a better future with the appraisal of past-time literature, above all the Czech poetry of the second half of the 19th century) is the corner-stone of Novák’s traditionalism. The performed analyses indicate, nevertheless, that the proclaimed program of the return to the tradition does not establish the ‘traditionality’ as a particular demand laid out in the reviewer’s practice; it is rather the foreknowledge that the tradition is just happening in the contemporary Czech literature.

Keywords

• Arne Novák
• literární kritika
• literární historie
• tradicionalismus
• literary criticism
• literary history
• traditionalism