Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2011
Abstract
This book analyzes model of a „new“ national historiography, which is particularly represented by Palacký’s Dějiny národu českého v Čechách a na Moravě (The History of the Czech Nation in Bohemia and Moravia). The detailed narratological analysis of this work, which in many respects was the founding text of the modern Czech historical consciousness, attempts to illuminate to which extent the modern idea of nation was constituted by the historical imagination.
Therefore, the analysis does not concentrate only on Palacký’s The History, but also on the adjoining “gravitation field“ of both historiographic and artistic representations of national history.