Jak se cestuje a vypravuje o cestování: nástin mezižánrové hry mezi Čapkovými cestopisy a komerčními turistickými žánry

Solic, M. (2012) Jak se cestuje a vypravuje o cestování: nástin mezižánrové hry mezi Čapkovými cestopisy a komerčními turistickými žánry. In: IV. Kongres Svetové Literárnevedné Bohemistiky, Prague, 28 Jun - 3 Jul 2010, ISBN 9788085778731

Abstract

This paper discusses the intergeneric construction of Karel Čapek's travel writings, which represent a complex fictional structure founded on the interaction between non-fiction, lowbrow and highbrow genres. In particular, the paper analyses the influence of the commercial tourist handbook as a possible non-fictional source of travel writing. Even though Čapek's traveller mocks the standardised structure and petrified vocabulary of tourist handbooks, in various places he admits that he travelled with a copy of the Baedeker in his hands. The article outlines how he expressed and subverted intergeneric links by fictionalising the two prominent features of the tourist handbooks: narratological (physical and communicative distance between the narrator and the reader/listener) and visual structure. This results not only in a new reading of Čapek's travelogues, but also in a new perspective on traditional "Čapkian" themes, such as the question of "ordinariness" and identity.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Additional Information: ISBN: 9788085778731
• Keywords: Karel Capek, travel writing, tourism, fictional travels, intertextuality
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Solic, Dr Mirna
• Authors: Solic, M.
• Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism; P Language and Literature > PG Slavic, Baltic, Albanian languages and literature
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Slavonic Studies
• Publisher: Ustav pro ceskou literaturu Akademie ved CR v nakl. Akropolis
• ISBN: 9788085778731